When the Roman Empire fell to the barbarians in A.D. 476, much of western civilization's accumulated knowledge began to disappear. Scrolls and manuscripts were lost when the monasteries and libraries that contained them were abandoned....

Lindisfarne (grid reference NU125421, 55°40′40″N, 1°47′42″W), (variant spelling, Lindesfarne), is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England. It is sometimes known as Holy Island, but several different islands around the British...

The most striking photograph included in All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860, an exhibition on display in the Robert Lehman Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is neither the best thing in the British photographer’s oeuvre nor the most beautiful....