Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in ...

What was life like in medieval society? Most medieval people lived in villages, as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages. The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in ...

Subjects that are now typically separated into different academic disciplines were rarely separated in the Middle Ages; medieval studies brings these subjects together in a natural, multidisciplinary ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social ... peasant anger at their low status in society spilled over into violent rebellion. Lollards by Dr Mike Ibeji ...

Parenting during the medieval period, which spanned roughly from the 5th to the late 15th century, differed markedly from contemporary child-rearing practices, shaped by the distinct societal, ...

Funerals were organized to declare those with the disease “dead” to society, and after this, relatives were allowed to claim ...

The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were ...

After its last phase of allowance it ended up in 31.12.1999. In accordance with the research interests of the "SFB" a Postgraduate Seminar Group [Graduiertenkolleg] "Literary Culture and Society in ...

historians are now questioning some of the older assumptions about monastic life in the later Middle Ages, and setting new approaches and new agenda. The present volume reflects these new trends. Its ...

Germany in the High Middle Ages opens with a wide-ranging and yet detailed description of the conditions ... cultural and religious advances usually attributed to french and italian society as ...

The fragments from the Middle Ages were found by chance in 15th and ... of the International Arthurian Society. Merlin the magician is one of the most famous characters from Arthurian legend ...