Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

Miss Bateson has chosen to tell the story of feudal England by exhibiting the phenomena of its society. In endeavoring to place before us the conditions of English society, from the advent of the ...

Marxist historians like Eric Hobsbawm, Chris Wickham, Irfan Habib, and Witold Kula have offered large-scale narratives and interpretations of phenomena like the structure of medieval societies and ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants ...

But Frachetti’s team believes these highland urban centers weren’t just surviving, they were thriving—in ways that defy expectations of what medieval mountain societies were capable of.

In medieval societies, the dragon was classified within the same framework as regular animal species. Legends, stories, and images turned it into a symbol of the Middle Ages that would transcend time.