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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 ...
T he European Middle Ages seem to be having a moment. Although it’s true that, essentially since the time they ended, the period has been used to justify the shape of an author’s contemporary ...
Read more: The Middle Ages Have Been Misused by the Far Right. Here’s Why It’s So Important to Get Medieval History Right. And so we look. We mark the brown skin on the faces of North Africans ...
Recent controversy among scholars of the Middle Ages is really an argument about the history of the field of study, the Middle Ages themselves, and the what it means to study the past.
When COVID-19 swept the globe in 2020, epidemiologists weren’t the only ones thinking they’d seen it all before. So did medieval historians.
Now historians David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele have stepped up to counter this narrative with their latest book, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe. The work is an ambitious one.
The myth of the Middle Ages as a “dark age” does not lie in the fact that things declined markedly after the fall of Rome—they did. It lies in the idea that this situation persisted until ...
Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...