If there is a single mood to encapsulate the past decade, it may be nostalgia—more precisely, a hunger for imagined histories. In pop culture, design, and art of late, we’ve relived the shimmer of Y2K, revived the gilded opulence of Rococo, and now look further back in time, to the Middle Ages. With its vast and varied visual language, Medieval aesthetics is fertile ground for a period infatuated with remixing.
