The medieval period was not a monolith, and neither were the people who lived during it ... consumption of luxury fabrics and jewelry in order to preserve social distinction.

She even had JPEGs of the fancy medieval tapestries to prove ... a ‘number two,’” Scharfman explains, “so people have put them in an order that seems to make sense. And I totally agree ...

Answering this difficult question requires an answer to four more difficult questions: ...

Chris Wickham is one of the best-known Marxist historians of the Middle Ages. In his book The Donkey and the Boat, he offers ...

In this monthly column we will be thinking about some of the people and ... this Sunday off, in order to visit their mother-church in the company of their mothers and other family members. This rather ...

These were the “shame-faced poor,” as medieval theologians called them—people who had once lived ... who threatened the moral order by showing that you could live virtuously and prosperously ...

“For me, in order to do anything about this ... Binsse has a dozen or so people these days interested in this style of medieval sport, which is one-part athletics, one part history, and three parts ...

I n 2005, the late conservative writer Lawrence Auster published a response to one of his critics. The critic argued that ...

Some had even been seen approaching the gates of his castle in order to beg for food or coins ... which saw hundreds of innocent people killed. There was no physical evidence of Rais’ crimes, and he ...