The theocratic civilization of the Middle Ages preserved in outline the pagan civilizations that preceded it, with their aristocracies and institutionalized slaveries.

Money has shaped civilizations for centuries, but in Medieval Europe, it didn’t work the way we think today. The rise of banking, trade credit, and money changers transformed the economy from a ...

Among those great medieval cities were places like Songo Mnara, a gorgeous and bustling Swahili city built on an island off the coast of Tanzania in the fourteenth century.

Scientists may have unraveled the mystery of what triggered decade-long droughts during medieval times in the American Southwest. These so-called megadroughts were so devastating that entire ...

Goals for Majors in Medieval Studies Acquire an understanding of the unity and of the diversity of European civilization in the Middle Ages as expressed in art, history, literature, music and religion ...