To Love

In antiquity, people did not consider themselves to be defined by such a thing as “sexuality”, and the sex of the person desired was not a criterion used...

Situla is a bronze bucket that was very popular in the Early Iron Age and appreciated by the aristocracy in a wide area from the Alps and the...

In antiquity, the banquets and symposiums emphasized the "internationally accepted" ritual of alcohol consumption, whose role in promoting commercialism, in the exchange of hospitality and the dynamics of...

Non-mythological erotic scenes appear frequently on a variety of Roman objects intended for daily use. These images portray a range of settings, couples, and positions with a casualness...

What is love? We all wish to have the answer to one of the most universal, mysterious, and all-permeating phenomena on this planet. And even if we perhaps...

How do we measure attitudes such as love towards children in Prehistory, Antiquity and Middle Ages? Were children highly valued, or devalued? The answer will very much depend...

In Atenica near Čačak in today’s Serbia, in grave 2, located in the periphery of the impressive tumulus I, the grave of a younger male person of aristocratic,...

Taking into consideration the premodern birth and survival rates, the most underrepresented element in the archaeological record are the burials of infants and small children. However, among the...

There is a general perception that, in the Middle Ages, children were not valued by their families or by society as a whole. Perhaps no time in history...

Children were also made objects of admiration, particularly by being idealized (as “pure”) or sentimentalized (“sweet” and “funny”). This can be seen as a positive evaluation of children,...