For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

The Pope was the head of the Catholic Church and lived in Rome. He set out rules and guidelines that would be put into action by church leaders and personnel across Europe. An example of such a ...

For example, one of four surviving medieval painted wood ceilings in Europe is in St Michael’s Church in Hildesheim, northern Germany. Many of the features are evidently Islamic in inspiration.

An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought ... from the exclusive grasp of the Catholic Church, education filtered down to the upwardly ...