Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Some of the people in the garrison were paid, such as the crossbowmen. Medieval society was a sort of interlocking network of relationships between people based on feudal obligations and on money ...

Higher education, and the pursuit of knowledge more broadly, can expand the spiritual horizons of the learner, argues Fr. Dan ...

A self-driving taxi has no passengers, so it parks itself in a lot to reduce congestion and air pollution. After being hailed ...

It examines the uplifting impacts of information access and grassroots technological revolution within the context of monastic scriptoriums, merchant guilds, and court scholars in a fantasy medieval ...

They also showed the role played by minstrels, considered "important figures" in medieval society. "These texts give us a snapshot of medieval life being lived well," Dr Wade said. The manuscripts ...

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Offering new, more accurate translations of the penitentials than what has previously been available, this book delves into the potentialities addressed in these manuals for clues about less tangible ...

Alternatively, perhaps the taxi itself should be praised and blamed. However, these kinds of AI systems are essentially ...

In a Q&A, Yale historian Ivan G. Marcus explains the rise of a confrontation in medieval Europe that set the stage for modern antisemitism.