What are some examples of medieval literature? There are many notable works of medieval literature that are still read and studied today. Some of these famous works include Dante's "The Divine Comedy", Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", or the epic poem "Beowulf." ...
Torture: it is an ancient practice that still goes on today. In the middle ages torture was used for punishment, interrogation, and deterrence. It is easy to consider ourselves more humane these days, but while some of the devices listed here would lead to death, we have, in modern times...
Although there are known cases of prosecution under sumptuary laws, they seldom worked. It was difficult to police everyone's purchases. Since the punishment for breaking the law was usually a fine, the very rich could still acquire whatever they pleased and pay the price with hardly a second ...
The First Baron's War was an interesting time in English history. The Archbishop of Canterbury and many other barons of England at the time did not like the way that King John was running the country. They gathered together to create a charter that the King would have to agree to. This ...
Though government once kept the best inventions from the enemy, government shouldn't now become the enemy of invention. Though government once owned the greatest technology, now the greatest technology can belong to anyone. How many of us are on the wrong side of the split between the digital...
This late Roman pattern of legal organization profoundly influenced the Europe that began to arise from 1000ceafter the barbarian invasions; even during the invasions the methods of Roman imperial administration never ceased to be used in some parts of southern France… ...
Scholasticism is so much a many-sided phenomenon that, in spite of intensive research, scholars still differ considerably in their definition of the term and in the emphases that they place on individual aspects of the phenomenon. Some historians, seeming almost to capitulate to the complexity of...