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4 giorni fa · What really sets this time apart is the ghoulish inventiveness that gave rise to a plethora of torture methods. There were many grounds for torture during the Middle Ages — religious fervor and criminal punishment come to mind — but why would a person take the time to invent a device designed to maim?
- Torture
Throughout the Middle Ages, for instance, criminals in...
- Torture
2 giorni fa · With the warming of the climate in the high Middle Ages, people became more optimistic about nature, moving into the third type of human-nature relationship, collaborative. The coming of plague in the 14th century forced a re-evaluation of that relationship, as ideas of man being able to affect the environment through pollution and ...
4 giorni fa · The early Muslim conquests or early Islamic conquests ( Arabic: الْفُتُوحَاتُ الإسْلَامِيَّة, romanized : al-Futūḥāt al-ʾIslāmiyya ), [3] also known as the Arab conquests, [4] were initiated in the 7th century by Muhammad, the founder of Islam. He established a new unified polity in Arabia (known today as the ...
- 622–750 CE
- Muslim victory
5 giorni fa · It is a period not only much better documented than the earlier Middle Ages in terms of treatises explicitly concerned with political ideas, but also offering a far wider range of other relevant texts, and increasingly, now, and not only in England, in vernacular languages as well as in Latin.
4 giorni fa · Katherine Harvey reads an investigation of what happened in church. ANYONE who has ever spent time in one of England’s many medieval churches, whether as day-tripper or worshipper, has surely wondered what it was like to visit one of these atmospheric buildings in the Middle Ages. In Going to Church in Medieval England, Nicholas ...
3 giorni fa · It aims to prove the essential importance of emotions in history – and a fortiori in the Middle Ages – and also to offer an emotion journey through a thousand year epoch… it is an anthropological history: a history of humankind, of the human being as a whole, and of shared singularities (p. 7).
4 giorni fa · Medieval World section includes articles about domestic life, economic life, intellectual life, material life, political life, recreational life and religious life. Includes an historical overview as well as primary sources. De Re Militari. Primary (and secondary) sources on medieval and renaissance military history.
