All this progress was reflected in the art and architecture of ... (monks singing) As the church was the leading patron of the arts throughout the Middle Ages, it owned the greatest artistic ...

Monastery architecture was pretty basic in the early Middle Ages. Around the 10th century, though, French architects developed a new style that demonstrated the Church’s increasing influence and ...

This gorgeous medieval castle endured wars with little damage—in fact, it's looked pretty much the same since the late Middle Ages ... of feudal-period castle architecture.

According to this view, during the Middle Ages the Church was corrupted and the arts and literature entered a dark age which, for Petrarch, still lasted. In his Epistolae metricae, the great ...

Buried alongside its inhabitant from the Middle Ages was ... Fantasy of the Middle Ages,” notes that Medievalisms—the remixing of aspects of medieval art, architecture, and literature ...

The sculpture is one of about two dozen similar sculptures from the Middle Ages that still feature on ... der Havel in Germany will not be removed, church officials stated on Monday.

The High Middle Ages brought majestic castles ... It was art that served not the church, but Europe's rich and powerful. And this included architecture in an increasingly secular society.