The Age of Reason associated with the names of Descartes, Newton, Hobbes, and the French philosophers, actually began in the universities that first emerged in the late Middle Ages (1100 to 1600) when ...

A specific legacy of such developments was that by the end of the Middle Ages, a sense of national identity, supported by the late medieval socio-economic structure, backed in law and by theological, ...

Graham-Goering's area of expertise is power, who held it, and how it was exercised in the late Middle Ages. She focuses particularly on France in the 14th century, a period that constitutes the ...

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, ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

Wages in the Middle Ages What happens to a country’s economy when half its population dies within a few years? Dr Jordan Claridge is developing a new dataset in order to understand wages in medieval ...

The Congress embraces the study of all aspects of the Middle Ages, extending into late antiquity and the early modern period, including—but not limited to—history, language, literature, linguistics, ...