Era of Australopithecus, the first...

In the year 410, Alaric, king of the Visigoths, led his army to the gates of the city of Rome. The Visigoths, a German tribe, were seeking to peaceably settle within the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Alaric had come to ask the Roman authorities to...

800 Charlemagne is crowned emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III, creating a linkage between spiritual and temporal powers. 813 Charlemagne requires all Christian altars to contain holy...

Contemporary feminist theory has allowed social and literary critics to observe and reconstruct the past through the lens of the woman, and more specifically, through that of the woman writer. Looking to the premodern eras of antiquity and the Middle...

The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three "ages": the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times. The idea of such a periodisation is attributed to Flavio Biondo,...

The halls of Geneva Middle School were filled with archers, stately maidens, knights and plague-infested peasants Friday. About 430 seventh-graders donned homemade and rented medieval garb to cap off a learning section on the middle ages. The day-long Medieval Fair and Feast...

An American study last week claimed middle age as the prime of life. Lies, says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - women still face rampant ageism. Not so, argues Virginia Ironside: middle age brings serenity to all YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN Columnist According social scientists at the...

The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans has reached its highest point in at least 25 years, a new government report said Thursday.The rate rose by about 20 percent between 1999 and 2004 for U.S. residents ages 45 through 54 — far outpacing increases among younger...

Take the A train to the Middle Ages. The subway stop at 190th Street lets you out near the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval outpost in northern Manhattan. This complex of early European architecture, perched high...

Describes how England, France, and Germany became more centralized during the Middle Ages due to brilliant leaders.

Referring to the Middle Ages as "a period of darkness" overlooks the beneficial traits that characterized this period. In fact, the Middle Ages can be seen as an era of advancement, with social, political, economic, and religious systems in place that made it a productive era and a "Golden Age" in European history.

Discusses how the church abused ts power in western Europe during the Middle Ages.