The Middle Ages sometimes called the Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the ... there were a great many things that happened during this time. With no central authority to maintain order ...

Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of ...

Can you imagine that in the future the time between 1500 and 2500 will ... By being defined as the Middle Ages, the period between the 5th and 15th centuries passed into history as an epoch ...

While some legends are rooted in the period, like the stories ... to an idealized aesthetic of the Middle Ages — and influenced our subsequent view of the time. Unknown German, “Three Horsemen ...

The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in ... look at what was going on during the same time in other parts of the world.

The most common method used by doctors in the Middle Ages was bloodletting. There were two methods of bloodletting – either a patient’s vein was opened and drained for a period of time ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

As Dante gazes up at her in the distance, she smiles back at him one last time, then turns away forever. To Mark Gregory Pegg, this moment “encapsulates the history of the Middle Ages because it ...

Ian Mortimer, a historian, argues that this and other popular works of advice that began appearing around the same time represent ... Whoever thinks the Middle Ages were all darkness has a ...