Goryeo (Koryo) ruled ancient Korea from 918 CE to 1392 CE. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Goryeo (Koryo)...
Middle Ages
When Magna Carta was created, England had endured 16 years of John’s kingship – a rule based...
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, urban settlements in Italy generally enjoyed a greater continuity...
Communes are first recorded in the late 11th and early 12th centuries. Introduction Medieval communes in the European Middle Ages had...
Serfs increased their political power by acting collectively in village communities which began to hold their own...
The full range of consumer goods of the period was set out to tempt the shopper and...
This practice began earlier with the Ancient Romans, who wrote (literally scratched on letters) on wax-coated tablets,...
Examining the influence of family, religion, schooling, class, status, experiences, and social contacts upon the psychological development...
Although they were the minority, some women did manage to rise above the limitations imposed on them...
Sforza was an early scientist who experimented with chemistry and medicine. By Amy Lifson Caterina Sforza, the...
Medieval Indian history went for almost three whole centuries under the so-called indigenous rulers. 9th Century to...
India’s history and culture is dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization. Introduction The history...
To circumscribe the Reformation solely within the sphere of theological disputation is to mask the complexity of...
The Church dominated the culture and society of Medieval Europe so powerfully that its people thought of...
What place does the paper book have in our increasingly all-digital present? What place does the paper...
The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
The symbols used in Norse mythology had to do not only with supernatural entities but also with...
In this period, there was no tradition of scientific medicine, and observations went hand in hand with...
Beatus was an early medieval monk who set down to illustrate a collection of writings he had...
The record is unique in European history and, packed full of statistics and snippets which reveal details...
Heraldry began on the mid-12th century CE battlefield as an easy means to identify medieval royalty and...
Even in a male-dominated society, Viking women were far from powerless. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction Although women in the Viking Age...
Viking Age Scandinavians almost exclusively made applied art – aesthetically appealing and useful. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction...
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of...
A new study posits the woman was licking brushes covered with pigments of lapis lazuli, a rare...
The Kingdom of Jerusalem did, in fact, make its own important cultural contributions. On 15 July 1099,...
The relationship between church and state is the institutional form of the relationship between the religious and political spheres. This...
The inter-marriage of Muslim families and the mingling with Christianity provides us with an interesting back story...
Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the Stuart...
One of the biggest challenges facing medieval historians is interpreting the actions of individuals at a remove...