When many people think of the Medievals, they imagine castles and knights on white horses saving damsels in distress, or perhaps superstitious, backward-looking peasants, who’s only thought is to toil ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Clocks in the Middle Ages ” in SA Supplements Vol. 41 No. 1061supp (May 1896), p. 16963 doi:10.1038 ...

Over the course of the 14th century mechanical clocks were developed, allowing time to be standardised and appointments to be kept. ... → Is everything you assumed about the Middle Ages wrong?

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

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 ...