Read more: The Idea of the ‘Dark Ages’ Is a Myth. Here’s Why Medieval Scientific Progress Still Matters. We are both historians of medieval Europe, having spent years with primary sources ...

What you think you know about the “Dark Ages” is probably wrong. An early 14th century painting shows Pontius Pilate, ... Myth: Medieval Europe was homogenous and provincial.

Medieval Europe must have been completely isolated from the rest of the world, ... Myths about the medieval period as the “Dark Ages”—a thousand-year period devoid of growth, ...

Bruce’s lecture, titled “The Dark Age of Herodotus: Shards of a Fugitive History in Medieval Europe,” was given in Campus Center Room 163 on Wednesday evening. Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian ...

The "Dark Ages" in what is now Western Europe sometimes conjure images of a very low-tech society --- replete with outright barbarism and boiling vats of gruel. But the early Middle Ages (or ...

Experts have revealed a reassessment of the Dark Ages is long overdue, with this Medieval era far better connected than first thought. Early Medieval Europe has historically been associated as a ...

Europe’s Not-So-Dark Ages. News March 5, 2013 ... FRANCE—A new study of a preserved human head at University Hospital R. Poincaré suggests that Europe’s medieval doctors may have been more ...

Until they began their work, really in the last decade or so, this was a marginal topic of conversation in medieval studies. As a practice, slavery was common in Europe through the entire Middle Ages.