By the year 1000, Europe was on the rise. Entering a period called the High Middle Ages, it was a time of growing innovation, trade, and travel. Christianity was dominant, and people celebrated ...

Then, around A.D. 1000, Europe rebounded. The High Middle Ages brought majestic castles, radiant Gothic cathedrals, and exquisite art that dazzled the faithful and the secular alike. After Rome ...

A time of innovation, philosophy, and legendary works of art: the realities of the medieval period (500 to 1500 C.E.) in Europe may surprise ... that during the Middle Ages, the unenlightened ...

in Medieval Europe, you were lucky to have even reached your teens when childhood mortality was so high. Let’s travel back in time now to see what it was like for the youth of the Middle Ages ...

The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe revisited this thinking and began ...

Between these two cultural high-water marks of European history, this middle period was portrayed as a time of backwardness. "Often the use of [the term] Middle Ages tells you more about the ...

Medieval studies students recreate an understanding of both the unity and diversity of Europe’s fascinating civilization in the Middle Ages. Latin: One 200-level (or above) Latin language course (4 ...

The first term examines core issues of European history such as the character of feudalism (were feudal principalities states or was feudalism a type of market? what was the link between feudal rule ...

A longstanding myth holds that people in medieval Christian Europe didn’t bathe. In fact, the Middle Ages subscribed heartily to the adage “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Thinkers of the ...