It’s a big change for researchers in terms of contextualizing the lives of disabled people in the Middle Ages. "Inferring social norms around physical impairment and disability from religious ...

The election process in the early Middle Ages was quite transparent and collegial: Early popes were selected by consensus by the Roman deacons and nearby bishops, who then presented the pope-elect ...

Advent was celebrated for a longer period in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, spanning five Sundays ... Mummers in medieval English villages wore masks and women’s clothing sang festive folk ...

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 ...

Back in the Middle Ages ... t until the early 14th century, when silhouettes started to follow the female form a bit more, that specific design elements were introduced to make clothing more ...

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their monasteries—when people generally, other than perhaps the well-to-do ...

In the Middle Ages European artists and theologians shaped a new terrifying vision of Satan and the punishments awaiting sinners in his realm. Seated on a fiery throne, Satan devours a damned soul ...

To Mark Gregory Pegg, this moment “encapsulates the history of the Middle ... the “Dark Ages,” a millennium of ignorance, confusion and all-encompassing religiosity. As early as the 3rd ...