Texts in Context: O Rose Thou Art Sick
Like every other time, the High Middle Ages were doomed to pass; but as they did, a certain kind of civilizational innocence seems to have gone with them.
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Texts in Context: The Chalice and the Sword
The thirteenth century was the high noon of Christendom; which also means it is when its light began to decline.
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Texts in Context: An Examination of the Holy Office
The Inquisition might be the single most faultily-understood institution in history; and yet there is a core of truth in all the errors about it.
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Texts in Context: The Apostolic Poverty Movement
One of the most potent forces throughout medieval society was the apostolic poverty movement, heretical and orthodox by turns; but what was it?
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Texts in Context: In the Year of Our Lord
The High Middle Ages are almost upon us. With them come two movements that will transfigure Europe and, eventually, the globe.
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Texts in Context: 1066 and All That
England as we know it, the England of the High Middle Ages and thereafter, finally attains recognizable shape.
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Texts in Context: The Great Estrangement
The Early Middle Ages faintly, but insistently, filed away at the integrity of Christendom; as they drew to a close, it gave way with a snap.
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Texts in Context: Varangians and Vinlanders
In the tenth century, northern Europe (with exceptions and false starts) is seen at last to enter the circle of post-Classical civilization.
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Texts in Context: The Realignment of the Eight Century
The Roman Empire—not as a concrete state, but as an idea—was about to take on quite a different shape.
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Texts in Context: The Long Dusk of Antiquity
Texts in Context:The Long Dusk of Antiquity By Gabriel Blanchard The ancient world—from the morning glow on the Bronze Age, through the high noon of Periclean Athens and
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