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 ...
The oldest depictions of the flower, resembling those known in medieval Western Europe, date back to the 3rd millennium BCE in Assyria. Of course, its meaning changes with each period and in each ...
The early Middle Ages saw the rise of a new social body in Europe ... It was in this context that the system of vassalage spread. The earliest benefits recorded date from 735 and were attributed to ...