Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted from the 5th to the late 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralized authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued in …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this …
“Ordinary” basic to Christian liturgy from the early Middle Ages onward – carry the charge of a millennium and … classical myth and literature in the Christian Middle Ages – by writers such as Bernardus Silvestris (De …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this …
divination strategies continued well into the Middle Ages, and various beliefs in omens and superstitions …
AlphaPlus · 22 March 2024
The arrival of the web and the omnipresence of smartphones now enable the wide and rapid distribution of false information. [...] The reasons we do this are that we: • …
disinformation can be found in antiquity and the Middle Ages. First transmitted by word of mouth, the printing …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 February 2024 English
Rose is divorced, fifty, and estranged from her daughter. At a student art opening on a rainy March evening she meets Morrison, a genial hoarder and womb-twin survivor, who leads …
legs? Thank God she hadn’t lived during the Middle Ages. Or maybe she had. Dimly, she remembered screaming …
BCCAT: BC Council on Admissions and Transfer · 13 February 2024 English
Exploring the Impact of Professional Regulation on Transfer Activity in the BC Transfer System
of professional regulation dates back to the Middle Ages, when artisans joined together in craft guilds …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 27 January 2024 English
Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a …
aggressive wars against Indigenous cultures. By the Middle Ages, Europe had been witnessing the expansion of …
Fraser Institute · 14 December 2023 English
After Estonia ended socialist rule and transitioned back to a market democracy, Estonians enjoyed vast improvements in their incomes, living standards and other key measures of prosperity. After the second …
meet (Aslund, Djankov, and Laar, 2014). In the Middle Ages, its largest communities, Tartu and Tallin, …
Mackenzie Institute · 8 December 2023 English
(Written by Chris MacIntosh. Originally published here in International Man, republished with permission.) Trends are...
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 1 December 2023 English
All the World’s a Mall is a memorable, hallucinatory travel adventure to five of the biggest malls in the world.
marketplace, where you also go for news, like in the Middle Ages. In fact, the centre of a city is by definition …
Fraser Institute · 30 November 2023 English
After the Soviet Union invaded Estonia and imposed socialism, living standards in Estonia plummeted—particularly compared to neighbouring Finland. Estonia and Finland share much in common including geography and natural resources. …
meet (Aslund, Djankov, and Laar, 2014). In the Middle Ages, its largest communities, Tartu and Tallin, …
