An unhealed gash on the forehead suggests that the man died a violent death, perhaps in battle....
Medieval
Ladies of a Mandarin’s family at cards, by Thomas Allom (1843) / Wikimedia Commons The emergence of...
Altarpiece at Tallinna Niguliste, Estonia The Reformation, imported from Germany, reached Livonia fairly quickly. The key themes in...
Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo, by Gentile Bellini (1500) / Gallerie dell’Accademia, Wikimedia Commons...
Blanche de Castille and King Louis IX / The Morgan Library and Museum, Wikimedia Commons Upon Louis...
Attack of the Crusaders on Constantinople, miniature in a manuscript of 9 La Conquête de Constantinople by Geoffreoy de Villehardouin, Venetian ms....
‘Liber secretorum fidelium crucis’ by Marino Sanudo with maps by Pietro Vesconte. This map of the world was...
A mass grave found in Dorset could belong to a crew of Viking mercenaries who terrorised Europe...
A 1540s depiction of a judicial combat in Augsburg in 1409, between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and...
Saint-Sulpice church, the romanesque portal, 12th-c., at Marignac, Charente-Maritime, France / Photo by Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons The...
This copy of a medieval manuscript illustration shows a peasant using a very modest version of the...
Medieval townsfolk needed very different sorts of technologies than did rural farmers, and they eagerly adopted tools...
In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the...
Nuit du 4 août 1789 dans l’ Assemblée nationale française / Musée de la Révolution française, Wikimedia...
Threshing and pig feeding from a book of hours from the Workshop of the Master of James...
Examining the close interdependence of medieval science, technology and religion: the Cathedral. By Dr. Hans Peter Broedel...
Kleroterion. This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted...
Peter the Hermit Preaching the First Crusade – From the Painting by James Archer / Wikimedia Commons...
Exploring the ways in which the law was used to control sex in late medieval and Tudor...
The big, new ideas of high medieval academia were Aristotle’s. By Dr. Hans Peter Broedel Graduate Director,...
There were lots of exciting forms of gambling in the Middle Ages (more than nowadays) but they...
Seven centuries of the Rothschild Pentateuch’s history chart the story. By Dr. Elizabeth Morrison / 09.19.2018 Senior...
Examining the view that the Orthodox Church stifled the development of East Slavic intellectual thought. By Dr....
Ordeal of boiling water from a Sachsenspiegel manuscript (1350 – 1375). Photo courtesy the Herzog August Bibliothek,...
In the Medieval ages there was an incredible amount of criminals, mostly because of impunity which gave...
Pskov Veche, by Apollinary Vasnetsov, 1908 / Tretryakov Gallery, Wikimedia Commons Kievan Rus′ was the early, mostly...
The issue of the Middle Age habitat of the Slavs in Central and Eastern Europe has been...
A medieval baker with his apprentice (scanned from The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black). As both business...
When examining the historical development of society, perhaps the most determining factor is education. By Abigail E....
Night of August 4th, abolition of feudality and fiscal privileges, by Léopold Morice / Photo by Teofilo,...