In contrast, the Middle Ages in Europe was all about the Christian church. Some historians have put forth the idea that the church crushed religious dissent and any actions by people seeking to ...

After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization flickered in monasteries and on Europe’s fringes: Christian Byzantium, Moorish ...

For authors such as Voltaire, the Middle Ages represented all the secular errors that they were trying to save mankind from, such as religious obscurantism and the predominance of dogma over reason.

As well as an abundance of anecdotes, Pegg does present an underlying thesis: Up to roughly the 11th century, he argues, the overall religious and sociological ethos of the Middle Ages can be ...

During the Middle Ages, tattoos had several functions. Some of them were used as a form of punishment for criminals. Others ...

A longstanding myth holds that people in medieval Christian Europe didn’t bathe. In fact, the Middle Ages subscribed heartily to the adage “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Thinkers of the ...

In Christian iconography ... the early profile of the dragon that would become widespread in the Middle Ages through his descriptions in Etymologies (an encyclopedia of sorts from the beginning ...

After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization flickered in monasteries and on Europe’s fringes: Christian Byzantium, Moorish ...