Herrmann warms up for a conclusion, that existing practices threatening the climate must be curtailed rather than held on to ...

“The Middle Ages” comprises works located between points in time, whether the bounds of the literal Middle Ages, or middle age in an individual sense, or a moment of societal shift from one ...

Starting in the 12th century, the Church made the fight against religious crimes a top priority. Under medieval law, a confession carried more weight than actual evidence. As a result, torture ...

Allegedly, copies of the Bible were chained to the walls of churches during the Middle Ages so that people could not take them home to read. Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also ...

A millennium before Tik-Tok and podcasts added an express lane to the self-help industry superhighway, “regimen sanitatis”—the genre of handwritten texts prescribing health and wellness ...

Sancho I, ruler of the kingdom of Léon in the north of modern-day Spain, was overthrown by rebel nobles in A.D. 958. Their motive, even by the turbulent politics of the day, was an unusual one ...

In the latest of our series on great revolutions, Dominic Alexander looks at how the Russian socialists had to confront the ...

The program includes free musical tours of this museum dedicated to the Middle Ages in Paris. Discover the full program. It's a magnificent place to visit, as much for its architecture as for its ...

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Duby’s greatest problem is the nature of the evidence. If you want to know what women were like in the Middle Ages, your evidence will issue largely from the scriptoria of monasteries. And there is a ...