Feudalism in Europe declined due to a combination of social, economic, and political changes that transformed medieval society. The rise of a money-based economy weakened the manorial system as ...

A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

Medieval Europe was filled with bronze horses, rich mosaics, and magnificent churches. While Rome fell in the West, it lived on through the Middle Ages in the East as the Byzantine Empire. Its capital ...