Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

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“Sources for the History of Monasticism in the Central Middle Ages (c. 800-1100),” in The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, ed. Alison Beach and Isabelle Cochelin, 2 vols.

Professor Grischa Vercamer is the new Heisenberg Professor at the University of Passau for the History of Eastern and Central European Cultures in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. In his ...

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Across the 1000 years of history commonly known as the Middle Ages, when human populations drastically declined, not even the ...

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The story of Kraków is one of light and shadow, where Middle Ages and Renaissance chapters contrast with darker pages from the 20th century.