‘Liber secretorum fidelium crucis’ by Marino Sanudo with maps by Pietro Vesconte. This map of the world was...
Middle Ages
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...
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 BroedelGraduate Director, Associate...
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...
When examining the historical development of society, perhaps the most determining factor is education. By Abigail E....
Feudalism can be found in a range of societies across different time periods. By Dr. Vladimir ShlapentokhProfessor...
A 15th century CE painting by Jean Fouquet depicting the Second Crusaders (1147-49 CE), led by Louis...
Pope Urban’s motives in preaching the First Crusade are unclear. By Sarah Hough Dickinson College Pope Urban’s...
The University of Glasgow / Photo by Mike Peel, Wikimedia Commons Charlemagne realized that his empire needed...
Mandeville’s Travels was, for more than two centuries after its appearance in c.1356, of enormous influence and...
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugene Delacroix, 1840 / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The...
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia,...
Edinburgh Castle / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Examining a microcosm of the medieval world in the...
The Gimli viking statue / Photo by Krazytea, Wikimedia Commons Medieval Iceland illustrates an actual and well-documented...