History—Story of the World: The Middle Ages is the second volume of four in a very exciting narrative series that reads like a story. If you opt for the audiobook, the narrator is extremely gifted and our whole
To get to our first meal in Girona, we parked in the New City and crossed a bridge to the east side of the mirror-like Onyar River and the Barri Vell. We had landed in the Middle Ages. We found a village of hand-hewn stone, graceful arches and, off in the distance, the soaring ...
There are two alternative archeological views on the processes of culture devel- opment in the Middle Ages in the forest zones of West Siberia. One point of view concentrates on the evolutionary autochthonous development of indigenous populations, which is expressed in the concept of the Ob-Irtysh...
2021); Aude Busine, ed.,Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th–7th Cent.)(Leiden: Brill, 2015); Hendrik Dey,The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014); Cl...
This part of the concept has fallen out of the contemporary conception, however: it seems clear that hope can be directed at something relatively easy to acquire ("I hope we'll have ice cream after dinner!"). It also seem clear that hope can take the present or past as an object ("...
White’s theory suggests that the impact of Judeo-Christianity on nature dates back to the Middle Ages, leading to an exploitative attitude toward the environment within Western culture. Moreover, the Zen Buddhist approach to nature in Asia mirrors the Christian perspective on the natural ...
Also, they had larger cities than Europe in the middles ages. And larger populations. And they are one of the few civilizations that developed (on their own) the concept of “zero” in their number system. Need a read while waiting for Collapse? May I suggest: ...
A single human voice can pronounce all the hundreds of vowel and consonant sounds that allow it to speak any of the estimated 6,500 lan- guages that exist today. (Scholars believe there were once about 10,000 languages, but many have since died out.) With practice, the voice becomes so...
Such is the case with this charming story of young Mary and Sir Edward set in the Middle Ages. It is a children's book for the curious about soldiers, war, knights, and kings, and those at home waiting, working, and worrying. Mary's father is off fighting for the king while the ...
Sports in the Middle Ages The sports of medieval Europe were less well-organized than those of classical antiquity. Fairs and seasonal festivals were occasions for men to lift stones or sacks of grain and for women to run smock races (for a smock, not in one). The favourite sport of the...