Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is described as a dreadful period of time that started with little culture. Education and art were not important because surviving became a main priority leaving no room for the other simple pleasures in life. Although this was the case, as the Medieval times progressed culture developed among the people. The cultures and qualities of life for the wealthy was much different than the peasants. Each individual was classified as either wealthy person or peasant from what they ate to…

is completely dead, but the presence of its values have decreased in modern times. Chivalry desperately needs to be revived because without it, there is no hope at achieving a future of gender equality. The origins of chivalry date back to the Middle Ages, a time when barbaric behavior in men ran unbridled. Chivalry developed out of the chaos as a code of conduct to follow. Its ideals of courtesy, courage, and respect revolved around the preferential treatment of women, purely because it was…

The nuns where women of religion during the Middle Ages. Nuns lived in places called convents, where they would fulfill their daily duties. Many nuns lived in the convents, which included a church, praying rooms, and dormitories. They would wear black veils, stockings and shoes, almost identical except to what modern day nuns attire is, the formal name of this wear is a habit worn with a leather belt. Sometimes you would find nuns wearing more elaborate attire with colors and patters. They had…

Law in the Middle Ages consisted of many important courts and jurisdictions. The judicial system offered three types of courts to solve many different problems. The first type of court was the church court. The Church court or Ecclesiastical court is “a tribunal set up by religious authorities to deal with disputes among clerics or with spiritual matters involving either clerics or laymen” (“Ecclesiastical Court”). The church court was considered the most powerful with a big jurisdiction.…

The main problem that we find when defining the History of Women in the Middle Ages, is their absence in written sources, so it is not easy to trace their daily activities, their positions or thoughts but what little we know It is through the male writings. That is why we must be careful when having the image that the clergy, the only ones who knew how to write, give about the woman. In spite of this difficulty, today we know great figures like Eleanor of Aquitaine, Joan of Arc or Christine…

The Middle Ages were a time of chaos and inequality. Royalty was an outstanding aspect of the culture, religion played a large role during this time, and women were not treated fairly compared to men in society. Thomas a’ Becket was a man in Canterbury, who was in the eye of King Henry II. Initially this was a good thing because Henry admired Becket so much that he made him Chancellor after seeing him achieve different missions for Theobald, the current archbishop. As Becket’s and Henry’s…

The middle ages are often seen as the tunnel of darkness between the Roman Empire’s golden age of culture and Europe’s much later Renaissance. While it is true that for many centuries, Europe was dwindling in progress, the same cannot be said of the Islamic world. Science, Philosophy, and theology all flourished under Islam, seen through numerous Arabic texts written by a handful of renown Muslim scholars. Therefore, the question that should be asked is, as Europe was plunging into an era of…

religious ideals their predecessors throughout the Middle Ages had emphasized, revamping concepts of the individual in their works. In particular, they focused on realistic depiction of new subject matters, deliberate creation using artistic abilities, and importance of human ideals. Contrary to religious figures of the Medieval Ages’ art, in the Renaissance, patrons of the arts began to commission artists to create art about classical themes. The medieval ages were times when strong ties…

The Middle Ages were, in a certain way, a time of darkness. Stories and history were primarily passed on through the ages by word of mouth. However, this changed when a man, a monk named Bede, took pieces of history and wrote books describing these historical events. Bede was able to learn through his monastery’s library and became the Middle Ages’ greatest scholar. Without him, our knowledge of this time period might have been limited and historical events lost. Around the time of Bede’s birth…

The Middle Ages are a misunderstood period of history in which the popular view is that they were a dark and gloomy time with little or no progress. This is due to the careless terminology coined by many historians In fact, the Medieval Times were much brighter times than what is commonly believed. Many accomplishments made during these times attributed to the progression of history. The Medieval Times were not actually a “Dark Ages,” but rather a bright time filled with progress thanks to…