I’m gaga over the book I’m showcasing today: a cultural lesson, a visual feast, and a dream for kids who miss the interactive flaps of their toddler years. But before I get to that, let’s step back for a second. Earlier this month, I was sitting next to a friend at my daugh...
Popular Revolt, Dynastic Politics, and Aristocratic Factionalism in the Early Middle Ages: The Saxon Stellinga Reconsidered Peter Blickle, the great scholar of the German Peasants' War of 1525, has asserted that "in the late Middle Ages Europe saw itself confronted with a phenom... Eric,J.,...
In this excerpt from his famous Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, written in his early years as a court organist, Bach expands on the toccata (short, intricately articulated keyboard movement) form in an elaborately constructed fugue. 3. Homer ??? Homer, name traditionally assigned to the author...
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for the roofs.But in the Early Middle Ages, homes were made of organic materials, mostly wood, and they had thatched roofs, simple structures of straw and mud.Materials like these decay over time, so naturally that makes it difficult to find these sites.Another reason Roman sites are so...
In the early Middle Ages the only works of his known inWestern Europewere parts of his writings on logic. They became the basis of one of the three subjects of the medieval trivium--logic, grammar, and rhetoric. Early in the 13th century other books reached the West. Some came from ...
By the early 16th century, European financial theorists understood the importance of the merchant class in generating wealth. Cities and countries with goods to sell thrived in the late middle ages. Consequently, many believed the state should allow its leading merchants to create exclusive government...
The question who has been appropriate to nurse a child has been very important. Especially in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times parents found themselves in the conflict between theological and medical views on the one side and their own opinion on the other. In the German speaking ...
The goals for your retirement plan will change in focus over time: Early in a person’s working life, your contribution to retirement savings may be modest. The reward is 40-plus years of investment growth. During the middle of your career, when your income may be at its peak, you might...