middle ages

While the Enlightenment looks more familiar to modern eyes than the more distant Middle Ages, intellectual and cultural development is not a straight line.

Raw eel seemed to be popular during and after the Middle Ages.

Instead, it would return European civilization back to a period of darkness not witnessed since the Middle Ages.

Conceptually, the “Angel of Death” was a cultural mainstay in continental Europe and the British Isles by the late Middle Ages.

In Lombardy, duelists were limited in the early Middle Ages to just shield and club.

However, argues Hall, the point in history when self-portraiture really took off was during the Middle Ages.

The collectivist state advocated by the socialist of to-day has scarcely anything in common with the communism of the middle ages.

What had turned the Italian republics of the middle ages into lordships and duchies?

Appended to this little volume is a list of remarkable dates and events, as also of battles and treaties during the Middle Ages.

The first we hear of chimneys, for the escape of the smoke from a fire or furnace, is in the middle ages.

In short, he had all those qualities which we admire in the chivalric heroes of the Middle Ages.