The film discusses the art of the Middle Ages, emphasizing its role in expressing the mystical faith of the time. It highlights the importance of medieval cathedrals, particularly in France, and ...

Entering a period called the High Middle Ages, it was a time of growing innovation, trade and travel. Christianity was dominant, and people celebrated their faith by building great structures.

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 fantastical imagery that many of us consider “medieval” today has been invented, at least in part, in the centuries since. While some legends are rooted in the period, like the stories of ...

Her original approach to the complementarity of men and women is distilled in her numerous historical works on the Middle Ages and her monographs on the great saints of Western history ...

Mr Mortimer sets out to show that the medieval period, from 1000 to 1600, is profoundly misunderstood.It was not a backward and unchanging time marked by violence, ignorance and superstition ...