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8 de dic. de 2022 · The medieval period is often thought of as a time of kings, castles, knights, and damsels. But this era was far more violent and bizarre than most realize — as these 37 facts about the Middle Ages will prove.
- Kaleena Fraga
4 de mar. de 2022 · 71 Medieval Time facts You Probably Didn't Know About This Era. Medieval writers categorized history into periods like the 'Four Empires' or the 'Six Ages.'. The first Europeans who came to America were explorers looking for gold, spices, or adventure. They found all three!
- People Had The Vote
- The Church Didn't Conduct Witch Hunts
- They Had A Renaissance, and Invented Experimental Science
- They Travelled – and Traded – Over Very Long Distances
- They Had Some Great ‘Folk’ Customs
- You Didn't Have to Get Married in Church
- Most Great Medieval Authors Didn't Write
- Some People Weren't Very Religious
- They Didn't Believe The World Was Flat
Well, some people at least. Not a vote for national, representative government – because that really wasn't a medieval thing – but a vote in local politics. In France, in the 12th and 13th centuries and beyond, many towns and villages were run at a local level as a commune, and there were often annual electionsfor ‘consuls’ and ‘councillors’, where...
The large-scale witch-huntsand collective paranoid response to the stereotype of the evil witch is not a medieval, but rather an early modern phenomenon, found mostly in the 16th and 17th centuries. There were some witch trials in the Middle Ages, and these became more widespread in German-speaking lands in the 15th century, but those doing the pro...
When people talk about ‘the Renaissance’, they usually mean the very self-conscious embrace of classical models in literature, art, architecture and learning found at the end of the Middle Ages. This is usually taken to be one of the ways in which we moved from ‘medieval’ to (early) ‘modern’ ways of thinking. But in fact, medieval intellectualsalso...
It may be the case that the majority of medieval people – particularly those who lived in the countryside – rarely travelled very far from where they lived. But that would be the case with quite a lot of people in much later ages also. It is not the case, however, that medieval people never travelled. Many went on pilgrimage, sometimes journeying t...
Much of the public culture of the Middle Ages was shaped, or at least informed by, Christianity. But there were also some quite curious customs, usually tolerated by the church, but which may have had older roots. One was the practice – found in many different parts of Europe – of rolling burning barrels down a hill on Midsummer’s Eve. Another was ...
In fact, you almost certainly didn’t get married inchurch: those who wanted their marriage ‘solemnised’ would usually do so at the gate to the churchyard. But in any case, couples didn’t need a church, or a priest, or the banns being read, or any other religious paraphernalia. The church certainly wanted people to do these things: since around the ...
We tend to think of literacy as one thing, but in fact it combines various different skills, of which the physical act of writing is only one. For much of the Middle Ages, working as a scribe – writing – was seen as a kind of labour, and was not something that tremendously clever, important people like theologians and intellectuals would bother doi...
The Middle Ages famously features great examples of extreme religiosity: mystics, saints, the flagellants, mass pilgrimage, and the like. But it would be wrong to assume that people were always very focused on God and religion, and definitely wrong to think that medieval people were incapable of sceptical reflection. There is solid evidence of some...
Most people probably know this already, along with the fact that Viking helmets did not have horns. Both are bits of Victorian myth-making about the period, along with the idea that the lord had the right to sleep one night with any newly-wedded woman. What makes studying medieval history fascinating is that you have to grapple with both the puzzle...
5 de nov. de 2022 · Here are 10 interesting and sometimes curious facts about medieval life. 1. Eels were sometimes used as currency. A record survives showing someone once rented land in the fenlands for 26,275 eels. 2. Shoes were ridiculous. Long-toed shoes were a sign of high fashion. Image Credit: Ziko / Commons.
- Tristan Hughes
25 Things from Everyday Life in the Middle Ages. If you lived during the Middle Ages, what kind of things would you have? Here is a guide to some of the everyday items that a medieval person would have used or had. Anvils – one of the instruments typically used by blacksmiths, anvils are heavy blocks of metal.
10 Fascinating Facts about Medieval Life. Step back in time to the enchanting world of the Middle Ages, a period of knights, castles, and chivalry. Medieval life conjures images of grand feasts, epic battles, and captivating tales of heroism.
19 de abr. de 2024 · Middle Ages, the period in European history from the collapse of Roman civilization in the 5th century CE to the dawn of the Renaissance (variously interpreted as beginning in the 13th, 14th, or 15th century, depending on the region of Europe and other factors).
