The study of Art History provides the curious learner with a portal into other times and places. Taking time to look at a work of and to enjoy conversation around it can be very satisfying.
Early Gothic Films and Theatre Phantasmagoric theatre (dating back to the 1770s in Europe) had a basic goal- to scare. Through illusions and a ‘magic lantern’, a successor to the Camera Obscura.
The medieval worlds it examines stretch from West Africa and northern Europe across the Mediterranean to Central Asia ... religion, the environmental sciences, art, architecture, archeology, and other ...