What you think you know about the “Dark Ages” is probably wrong. An early 14th century painting shows Pontius Pilate, the Roman official who ordered Jesus’ crucifixion, washing his hands.

In between the fall of the Roman Empire and the birth of the Italian Renaissance, Western Europe economically stagnated and culturally declined in what are commonly called the Dark Ages. This ...

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

The outdated concept of the European “Dark Ages” masks the parallel and interconnected developments across medieval Africa. ... Massachusetts and Roxbury Presbyterian Church in Roxbury, Mass.

The Dark Ages. A new danger threatened when the Empire’s resistance to the barbarian hordes from the East finally crumbled. In the fifth century the Goths sacked the Eternal City; Visigoths ...

But the roots of academic freedom, which can be traced back to medieval European universities, were never certain. Back then, when scholars demanded autonomy from Church and state, they were often ...