The Middle Ages, with its crippling poverty and lack of law and order, was the perfect time for unscrupulous men to turn to a ...

The critical point was, again the Middle Ages, and there you had an adversarial position between the church and the state ...

There is no doubt that in the Catholic Europe of the Middle Ages, monogamous marriage was the way to go. The medieval church held enormous power and control over the people, and this included their ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...

The first term examines core issues of European history such as the character of feudalism (were feudal principalities states or was feudalism a type of market? what was the link between feudal rule ...