Far smaller and far slower social changes in earlier periods triggered civil wars, rebellions, and violent intellectual and spiritual crises. The extreme social transformations of this century have ...

Between the end of Roman antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages, laws appeared in both the Codex Theosianus and the ...

In the medieval feudal system, the nobility were generally those who held a fief, often land or office under vassalage in ...

During the Middle Ages, disabled people were found in all parts of society. Those born into ordinary peasant families just ...