So there’s a lot of abstruse information flying about. What you’ll discover went on in medieval times is so distinctly human, yet we’re now so distant from the activities a lot of happenings will seem like from a different species. This is like entering a familiar, but alien, world. With limited knowledge of the world around them, religion dominated the day and wildly imaginative metaphorical and miraculous occurences seemed possible.Īnd it’s one art historian Jack Hartnell brings to love in this fabulous work from 2018. Whilst times were indeed hard, your average London peasant was also as concerned with indigestion as you and I. That’s a period Laurence Bergreen’s Over the Edge of the World documents in enthralling fashion.ĭuring that time Europe went through often cataclysmic issues ranging between relentless outbreaks of killer diseases to war.Īlong with the disastrous medical procedures of the day, it kind of makes you happy to be alive here in 2019.īut whilst it’s easy to think of life back then being horrible, it doesn’t tell the full story.
It came about with the end of the western Roman empire, before being succeeded by the Renaissance period and the Age of Discovery. Europe’s Middles Ages-medieval times, if you please-ran from the 5th through to the 15th century.
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