the Early Middle Ages. We start after the fall of Rome, seeing how the flickering flame of civilization was kept alive in monasteries and fortress-like churches and how those churches were early ...

Monastery architecture was pretty basic in the early Middle Ages. Around the 10th century, though, French architects developed a new style that demonstrated the Church’s increasing influence and ...

The City of Leeds in the U.K. recently revealed a Saxon treasure: a gilded pendant from Northumbria's Christian past, ...

Churches featured round Roman style arches ... feudal Europe was mired in the relative darkness of the early Middle Ages, but sophisticated societies thrived to the east and south.

A church was built there in the ninth century ... Stonecutting had fallen into abeyance during the early Middle Ages, when blocks from old edifices were reused. Thanks to the industry of the ...

It dated back to the Middle Ages. The excavators found ... represents part of the earlier church.” Though the analysis of the human remains is in the early stages, archaeologists have already ...