It is hard not to shake one’s head when hearing feminist activists describe misogynistic speech and other attacks on women’s dignity as “medieval” — especially for those who have taken the trouble to ...

From the fall of Rome to the dawn of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages spanned over a thousand years of dramatic change. In this video, we break down the full timeline of the medieval era in just 15 ...

Peter Jones’ ‘Self-Help From the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living’ is part medieval history, part self-help, and all a great read.

As familiar notions suggest, medieval medicine was influenced by herbs and humours. But these factors were part of a broader ...

Isn't history more fun when you can actually picture it?

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe, by Matthew Gabriel and David M. Perry, (HarperCollins: 2021), 336 pages. Around the year 849, a group of Byzantine monks paid a young woman to accuse ...

The medieval is part of the mosaic of modern Australia. Our nation’s heritage on this island continent is full of it: in aesthetics, institutions, laws, languages, identities, moralities. Indeed, the ...

Although the Middle Ages were an undeniably turbulent period in the history of Europe, characterised in part by endemic violence, hardship and inequality, the latter half of the era was also a time of ...

The Middle Ages is a period in history that has never ceased to inspire people. Since the 16th century, thinkers and artists have revisited this period of history, or copied it to imagine imaginary ...

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