“Queen of Nooses” from “The Cloisters Playing Cards” (South Netherlandish, Burgundian territories, 1475–80), paper (four layers in pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied ...

There is a certain universality associated with card games, which is evident in the latest exhibition at the Cloisters in New York, titled “The World of Play: Luxury Cards 1430-1540.” “The random ...

LIFE in the Middle Ages was not all work, plagues and prayers. People also had fun, despite government and church efforts to stop them. One of the most popular medieval amusements is the subject of ...

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