All this progress was reflected in the art and architecture of ... (monks singing) As the church was the leading patron of the arts throughout the Middle Ages, it owned the greatest artistic ...

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 ...

This gorgeous medieval castle endured wars with little damage—in fact, it's looked pretty much the same since the late Middle Ages ... of feudal-period castle architecture.

The Church was central to community life throughout the Middle Ages, a situation that seems ... albeit on a smaller scale. Its architecture performed much the same function as that of the ...

According to this view, during the Middle Ages the Church was corrupted and the arts and literature entered a dark age which, for Petrarch, still lasted. In his Epistolae metricae, the great ...