The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...