Images

Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215–1275), Illuminated Manuscript Unknown Artist, c. 1300-1308. Taken from the Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England. (British Library, London)

Portrait of Patrick Henry (1736-1799), a Virginian statesman and Founding Father of the United States. Oil on canvas by George Bagby Matthews after an original by Thomas Sully, circa 1891. United States Congress Collection, Washington...

Patrick Henry as a young lawyer arguing the Parson's Cause. Oil on canvas by George Cooke, c. 1834. Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.

Saint Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373), Saint Bridget on an Altar Piece, Hermann Rode, late 15th century. Taken from "The Swedish people through the ages. Our country's cultural history in descriptions and images. The second volume. The medieval...

St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), oil on canvas portrait by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, depicting St. Catherine of Siena wearing a crown of thorns, c. 1746. The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482) wife of Henry VI of England (r. 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471). Detail from an illuminated manuscript by Talbot Master, c. 1445. From Presentation of the Book of Romances. (British Library, London)

A map illustrating the journeys of the brothers Cyril and Methodius, two 9th-century Christian missionaries, that shaped the cultural and linguistic landscape of Central and Eastern Europe. Commissioned by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III...

The title page of Reflections on the Revolution in France, first published in 1790 and written by Edmund Burke (1729-1797), the Anglo-Irish statesman and political thinker.

A 1774 oil-on-canvas portrait of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) the Anglo-Irish statesman and political thinker. Painted by Joshua Reynolds. (National Galleries, Scotland)

A 1771 oil-on-canvas portrait of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) the Anglo-Irish statesman and political thinker. Painted by the studio of Joshua Reynolds. (National Portrait Gallery, London)