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Mortimer: Violence dominated daily life -- and humor ... where the landscape has changed little since the Middle Ages. Did people then have an eye for the natural beauty around them?
Ever wondered what life would’ve been like as a teenager in the Middle Ages? In this video ... and limited freedoms to surprising customs and everyday survival. It was far from easy, but ...
Life as a medieval slave was harsh, unforgiving, and often invisible in the grand narratives of history. In this video, we ...
The Middle Ages spanned 1,000 years ... for more intimate services in an otherwise vast space. In a time when daily life was pretty bleak, attending mass provided a needed escape, a peek at ...
Once upon a time, popular culture used to embrace charming or comic fantasies about the Middle Ages. From Camelot to ... down loners who expect little from life and receive less.
Often at odds in the modern mind, the boundaries between these elements of everyday life were far more ambiguous during the Middle Ages; defined by medievalist Kathryn Walton as “actions that ...
The same can be said for art from the Middle Ages ... and the built environment of people in the Middle Ages. “Depending on where you lived, you only saw great cathedrals once or twice in your life.
As a medieval scholar, I found this approach to exploring life and death in the Middle Ages engaging. But Swarthout does well to make the sometimes difficult and grisly subjects approachable to ...
At the festival each year the Middle Ages come to life in a village bursting to the ... share in writing this bi-monthly column for the Daily Journal. Send comments to [email protected].
KINGSTON, N.Y. — “Life in the Middle Ages,” a medieval ages re-enactment event, is set to take place Saturday in Kingston, according to an announcement from the Ulster County Clerk’s Office.