Installation view of The Fantasy of the Middle Ages at the Getty Center. Pictured: “Dragon in Bestiary” (c. 1270), “Sinbad the Sailor” In One Thousand and One Nights (Egypt, 1700s), and ...

Why was there no Middle Ages in Mexico? It turns out the answer is a really simple one, as our expert historian explains.

Feudalism dominated medieval Europe for centuries - but by the end of the Middle Ages, it had begun to unravel. In this ...

The Middle Ages. Episode 103 | 58m 39s Video has Closed Captions | CC. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization flickered in ...

Medieval Europe: A Journey Through the Late Middle Ages. Posted: March 9, 2025 | Last updated: April 23, 2025. This film explores European life from 1200 to 1500, highlighting the significance of ...

What life in medieval Europe was really like. Did people bathe? ... Despite the era’s dark reputation, though, everything from scholarship to art and technology thrived during the Middle Ages.

For much of the European Middle Ages, learning was centered in religious institutions. These tended during the period to be cathedrals - often in growing cities, ...

European bison, also known as wisent, died out in the wild in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. The animals currently in the trial herd consist of a four-year-old bull, ...

European travelers on foot, ... In “A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages,” Anthony Bale describes a variety of medieval commoners taking long journeys on foot and horseback and by ship.

In the Middle Ages, lapis lazuli could only be found in what is now Afghanistan. By the time the powdered stone reached central Europe through a complex trade network spanning thousands of miles ...

Art of Europe’s “Age of Faith”: Romanesque, Gothic, Byzantine, Moorish, and even Viking. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of ...