An ideal introduction to the essential themes in medieval central European history, the book sheds important new light on regional similarities and differences. "This welcome synthesis provides an up ...

The main European universities in the Middle Ages were based in Italy and France ... the move away from superstition to a more professional and science-based medicine had begun: doctors observed ...

The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were ...

In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. The "Dark Ages" in what is now Western Europe sometimes conjure ...