BEAUTIFUL Bruges in northwest Belgium is one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe. Its picturesque canals, cobbled streets and ancient squares make for the perfect photo backdrop, while ...

In some ways, therefore, knowledge went into reverse in medieval Europe. Much of the knowledge of the Greeks and Romans was lost and was replaced by superstition. Peasants turned to the priest or ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

Between the end of Roman antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages, laws appeared in both the Codex Theosianus and the Visigothic Code referring to the prohibition of violating graves or tombs.

Born in Venice in 1254, Polo traveled the Silk Road, a medieval trade route connecting Europe to Asia, between 1271-95, spending 17 of those years in China as a prominent figure in the flourishing ...

Scholarship of medieval literature and historical records ... Soon after, the woman headed to Bologna, which was the surgery capital of Europe at the time. There, a surgeon cut open the woman ...