Across Africa, Europe, and Asia, the Middle Ages were a hotbed for political events, military action, pioneering inventions, influential literature, and religious turmoil. Let’s travel back in ...

Traditionally labeled the “Dark Ages,” this period is now recognized ... in Tunisia and the Fatimids in Egypt emerged. North African cities like Kairouan and Cairo became intellectual hubs ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...