♪ ♪ ♪ The Middle Ages spanned 1,000 years, from 500 to 1500. The first half was a time of relative poverty and economic stagnation. But then around the year 1000, Europe rebounded, fueled by ...

Yet it was frequently discussed in a language that is more resonant of the Middle Ages than the scientific laboratory.

What life in medieval Europe was really like. Did people bathe? ... Despite the era’s dark reputation, though, everything from scholarship to art and technology thrived during the Middle Ages.

Installation view of The Fantasy of the Middle Ages at the Getty Center. Pictured: “Dragon in Bestiary” (c. 1270), “Sinbad the Sailor” In One Thousand and One Nights (Egypt, 1700s), and ...

European bison, also known as wisent, died out in the wild in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. The animals currently in the trial herd consist of a four-year-old bull, ...

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

As Martyn Rady informs us in “The Middle Kingdoms,” “invasion is a recurrent theme in Central Europe’s history,” lying, as the region does, between the powers of France and Germany in ...