The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose across Europe, knights pledged their loyalty to their owners, and entire ...
“As you know,” wrote Boston’s late, fictional George Apley (J. P. Marquand’s The Late George Apley) to his son John, “for a number of years I have been making a collection of Chinese bronzes. . . . I ...