If you’re looking for--or to be--a knight in shining armor, you’ve come to the right place. This Saturday, knights, squires, assorted royalty and peasantry will be feasting, fighting and ...

The Renaissance, spanning the 14th to 17th centuries, marked a pivotal "rebirth" in Europe, transitioning from the Middle Ages to modernity. This period witnessed a resurgence of classical ...

The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance.. By Paul Lacroix, Curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.) ...

The Medieval Period lasted from around 476 C.E. to 1453 ... Read on to find out more about medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ... In time, and especially during the Renaissance, ...

The myth of the Middle Ages as a “dark age” does not lie in the fact that things declined markedly after the fall of Rome—they did. It lies in the idea that this situation persisted until ...

The Middle Ages, like all historical epochs – like our own – was a time of light and shadow. A time, in short, which, if we approach it without prejudice, still has many lessons to offer us.

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 ...

The Middle Ages are remembered as a time of conflict — there were wars between England and Scotland, between Muslims and Christians in Spain, and the Crusades in the Holy Land. The Middle Ages ...

Pernoud — for whom the term “obscurantism,” generally associated with the Middle Ages, applies much more to the Renaissance and the centuries that followed — demonstrates with her talent ...