Universidad CEU San Pablo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ES. “People have the right to live as they wish, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.” This statement, made ...

Even if you have the most basic historical knowledge, you are probably aware of the period called the Middle Ages. Sadly, ...

A longstanding myth holds that people in medieval Christian Europe didn’t bathe. In fact, the Middle Ages subscribed heartily to the adage “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Thinkers of the ...

Once upon a time, popular culture used to embrace charming or comic fantasies about the Middle Ages. From Camelot to Monty Python, Disney castles to Medieval Times dinner theater, we dreamt of the ...

Jorge Luis Borges’s essay “Beatrice’s Last Smile” opens with a daring assertion: “My intention is to comment on the most moving lines literature has achieved.” In the “Paradiso ...

In the Middle Ages, music and dancing often played a key role in social events and religious ceremonies. It provided a sense of togetherness and well-being, that for the majority of the peasant ...

Like many other films about the Middle Ages from the 21st century, it doesn’t shy away from the dirt, blood, and violence of this pivotal period in Scottish history. Thomas West ...

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their monasteries—when people generally, other than perhaps the well-to-do ...

Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of ...