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2 days ago · Historians have been fascinated by the topic of the end of the medieval period, often known as the Middle Ages, for centuries. Due to the slow nature of historical transitions, it can be difficult to pinpoint a specific date; however, a number of events and cultural transformations indicate the end of this era and the beginning of the Renaissance.
5 days ago · A weaker state and a greater emphasis on clinging to power by force militarized the aristocracy and made war its defining passion throughout the middle ages. By contrast, peasants did comparatively well from the weakening of systematic taxation until the aristocracy was able to reimpose its power towards the end of the period.
3 days ago · The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN: 9780199650484 ; 400pp.; Price: £65.00. The beginnings of Europe is not a very complicated historical subject. After the end of Roman domination in the fifth century CE, so-called ‘successor states’ grew up in the territories and around the margins of ...
5 days ago · A new temporary exhibition at the Swiss National Museum in Zürich – coveted. cared for. martyred. Bodies in the Middle Ages – re-evaluates the ways in which medieval Europeans saw, conceived, and imagined the human body. In this interview, James Blake Wiener questions Curator Christine Keller about the exhibition's finer points.
3 days ago · In European history, "post-classical" is synonymous with the medieval time or Middle Ages, the period of history from around the 5th century to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions ...
4 days ago · Thus, at the end of the Middle Ages, the king received little direct benefit from the farm, while it was regarded as increasingly burdensome by the city. In 1482 the citizens were seeking to have it reduced on the ground that it would then be possible to permit men to trade toll-free in York and in this way restore commercial prosperity.
2 days ago · He also mentions country dwellers who held land in the town, a feature of Cambridge life which persisted throughout the Middle Ages and indeed to modern times, and is further illustrated by the Guild of Cambridge thanes; a sort of country club whose rules (c. 1050) provide for the religious, the convivial and the criminal liabilities of the ...
