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 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...

Marshall Kahn attends a gym with yoga, tai chi and Pilates classes, weight training and treadmills. It also has a driving simulator, where members can keep their skills from deteriorating.The gym, Nifty After Fifty, is one of many fitness centers popping up around the country...

It sounds like a medical procedure you’d hope to avoid, or like something you’d see in a sci-fi movie: Neutron Activation Analysis. It’s actually a high-tech way to take a sample of something and precisely determine its elemental makeup. A venture called the Limestone Sculpture...

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.