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From Brussels to Siena, it was the Gothic city hall, not the church, that towered over the main square. And the elites of the High Middle Ages built Europe's magnificent castles and fortresses not ...

From Brussels to Siena, it was the Gothic city hall, not the church, that towered over the main square. And the elites of the High Middle Ages built Europe's magnificent castles and fortresses not ...

“The European state was born in the Middle Ages . . . The medieval church was so influential because it was armed with superior organisational reach, human capital, and spiritual authority.

In contrast, the Middle Ages in Europe was all about the Christian church. Some historians have put forth the idea that the church crushed religious dissent and any actions by people seeking to ...

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 ...