Some bestiary descriptions explained a creature’s Christian significance while others focused on physical characteristics. Introduction The bestiary...
Middle Ages
Medicine had become highly professionalized by the late Middle Ages and was patriarchal, but women like Trotula...
The allure of novel goods was so strong that it triggered 1,000 years of trade and interactions...
The family one was born into in Byzantium greatly determined one’s social status and profession in adult...
Van Helmont was an heir of Paracelsus’s thought and movement who went to lengths in later years...
With the plague decimating the ranks of laborers, surviving workers rebelled against the crown’s higher taxes and...
Medieval medical communities and religious institutions were intermingled. Originally published by Digital Commons at Western Oregon University,...
In medieval England, churches had a moral duty – and even a legal obligation – to protect...
Empires in the Indian subcontinent shared intertwined histories with principalities to the west such as the Greeks...
The work covers the entire history of ancient Persia from the creation of the world to the...
When one is “brewminating” over the middle ages, anywhere between the collapse of the Roman empire to...
The growing sense of nationalism in England was one of the underlying causes of the Wyatt Rebellion....
Today post-infection prophylaxis is effective and safe, using vaccines grown on human cells and antisera obtained from...
Reexamining Charlemagne through evidence from his own time, as a ruler of a recognizably European empire and...
A handful of manuscripts remain which give researchers valuable insights into medieval science. Introduction Medieval doctors had...
Come early medieval medicine has become real medicine, not scribal ignorance. Abstract The medical writings of early...
A medieval person would have looked upon the owl and the birds and seen a Christian parable....
The plague, named the Black Death by later historians, had a devastating effect on the European population...
The Northern Wei was the most enduring and powerful of the northern Chinese dynasties before reunification. Imperial...
The Varyags are first mentioned by the Primary Chronicle as having exacted tribute from the Slavic and...
Three types of historical writing flourished in the Middle Ages: chronicles, hagiography, and the rhetorical monograph. By...
Besides terrible plagues and epidemics that seemed to spring out of nowhere with alarming regularity, there were...
The Empire, for much of its history, can be seen as the Christian equivalent of the Muslim...
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487 CE) was a series of dynastic conflicts between the monarchy and...
The Tapestry is valued both as a work of art and as a source concerning the history...
This Western-style organizational form gradually spread from the medieval Latin west across the globe. Introduction A medieval...
The consequences of the revolt were limited. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Peasants’ Revolt, also known as...
Created between 1377 and 1382, it is the oldest surviving French tapestry. Introduction The Apocalypse Tapestry is...
The development of extensive trade routes allowed Russia to grow in size and power. The Viking Influence...
It was justified by reference to historical myths that nobles and servile peasants were separated by courage...