Historical illustration from the 19th century, figures on horseback after the Ellesmere Manuscript, 15th century, from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Historical illustration from the 19th century, the beginning of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Ellesmere Manuscript, 15th Century

Historical illustration from the 19th century, the Globe Theatre, 1599, a theatre building in London, here at the time of William Shakespeare

Historical print from the 19th century, Antoinette Deshoulières, nee De Ligier de la Garde, 1638 - 1694, a French poet and philosopher

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, Maria Eleonora von Brandenburg, 1599 - 1655, a Princess of Brandenburg and wife of Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, Charles the Great, Carolus Magnus or Charlemagne, 747 - 814, King of the Frankish Empire and Roman Emperor, with his 4 wives

Historical print from the 19th century, portrait of Margaret of Angouleme, or Marguerite de Navarre or Marguerite d'Angoulême or Margarete of Navarra, Margarete of Valois or Marguerite of France, 1492 - 1549, Queen of Navarre, French poet and diplomat

Historical illustration from the 19th century, from the book Life of St. Edmund by John Lydgate, about 1370 - to 1451, an English monk and poet presenting his work to Henry VI, King of England, 1421 - 1471, after an English manuscript from the 15th...

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, medieval depiction of a woman possessed by the devil