I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

His Italian journey was a poet's version of those perennial thrusts across the Alps of the German emperors of the Middle Ages.

The relic worship and monasticism of the Middle Ages were more advanced forms than were primitive fetish worship and nature myths.

And you don't meet the folks from home in Northwest Spain which has remained almost untouched by time and tourists since the Middle Ages.

This conception was taken up by the early Church Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle Ages ; ;

Finally, the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More's time, although it was not accepted by all the theologian-philosophers of the Middle Ages.

La Croix on the Customs of the Middle Ages, 16 chapters of Bryce `` and liked it more and more '' ; ;

Horse races took place here in the Middle Ages.

In the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, right up to the early nineteenth century, the painter was a giant in the world.

In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church.

These thinkers blended Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity, bringing the thought of Ancient Greece into the Middle Ages.

The Middle Ages have known many arabic writers who revolutionized the Arab world literature with authors like Ahmad al-Buni and Ibn Manzur and Ibn Khaldoun who wrote the Muqaddimah while staying in Algeria, and many others.

The Runic alphabets were used for Germanic languages from AD 100 to the late Middle Ages.

[...] It is not as philosophically thorough as the works of D. Saliba, A. M. Goichon, or L. Gardet, but it is probably the best essay in English on this important thinker of the Middle Ages.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Pig iron, a very hard but brittle alloy of iron and carbon, was being produced in China as early as 1200 BC, but did not arrive in Europe until the Middle Ages.

Because the ancients could not produce temperatures high enough to melt iron fully, the production of steel in decent quantities did not occur until the introduction of blister steel during the Middle Ages.

With the introduction of the blast furnace to Europe in the Middle Ages, pig iron was able to be produced in much higher volumes than wrought iron.

Initially in a literary revival Renaissance was determined to move away from the religion-dominated Middle Ages and to turn its attention to the plight of the individual man in society.

During the Middle Ages the word artist already existed in some countries such as Italy, but the meaning was something resembling craftsman, while the word artesan was still unknown.

There had been settlement on this part of the Abens river since long before the High Middle Ages, dating back to Neolithic times.

In the Middle Ages, the people of Abensberg enjoyed a level of autonomy above their lord.

After the Communists took control in the 1940s Polish scholars were safer working on the Middle Ages and the early modern era rather than contemporary history.

The reciprocal influence between the French school and Polish historiography was particularly evident in studies on the Middle Ages and the early modern era studied by Braudel.

Isidore's T and O map, which was seen as representing a small part of a spherical Earth, was essentially unchanged from its predecessors of 1, 200 years previously, continued to be used through the Middle Ages by authors, e. g. the 9th century bishop Rabanus Maurus who compared the habitable part of the northern hemisphere ( Aristotle's northern temperate clime ) with a wheel.

Aristotle's work was influential throughout the Middle East during the Islamic Golden Age, as well as in Europe during the Renaissance.

In Persia, works such as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Epic of Kings by Ferdowsi provided evidence of political analysis, while the Middle Eastern Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and Averroes, continued Aristotle's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing commentaries on Aristotle's works.

With the end of the Middle Ages however, Aristotle's approach, especially concerning formal and final causes, was criticized by authors such as Niccolò Machiavelli, in the field of political thinking, and Francis Bacon, concerning science more generally.

It is well known that in the Middle Ages all scholastic philosophers advocate Aristotle's " infinitum actu non datur " as an irrefutable principle.

But with the Empire's fall to the Goths in A. D. 476, Neo-Platonism gave way to the spread of Christianity in the Western world, leaving Aristotle's multiple " essences " unchallenged to dominate philosophical thought throughout the Middle Ages on into the era of modern science.

Aristotle's logic was further developed by Islamic and Christian philosophers in the Middle Ages, reaching a high point in the mid-fourteenth century.

Isidore's round map, also called T and O map or simply ( T-O ) map, continued to be used through the Middle Ages by authors such as the 9th century bishop Rabanus Maurus who compared the habitable part of the northern hemisphere ( Aristotle's northern temperate clime ) with a wheel.

* Rubenstein, Richard E. Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages.

Agamben's political thought was originally founded on his readings of Aristotle's Politics, Nicomachean Ethics, and treatise On the Soul, as well as the exegetical traditions concerning these texts in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Occasionally the philosophers of the Middle Ages even preferred Averroes ’ commentary to Aristotle's stated sense.

Although the school died out, the study of Aristotle's works continued by scholars who were called Peripatetics through Later Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.

After the fall of the Roman empire, the works of the Peripatetic school were lost to the west, but in the east they were incorporated into early Islamic philosophy, which would play a large part in the revival of Aristotle's doctrines in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

" Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages.

Aristotle's ideas were taught unchanged until the late Middle Ages, when scientists started making discoveries that didn't fit them.

In an essay on conspiracy theories originating in the Middle East, Daniel Pipes notes that " ive assumptions distinguish the conspiracy theorist from more conventional patterns of thought: appearances deceive ; conspiracies drive history ; nothing is haphazard ; the enemy always gains ; power, fame, money, and sex account for all.

Towards the end of the Middle Ages, many philosophers, such as Nicholas of Cusa and Francisco Suarez, propounded similar theories.

Nicholas Stix of Middle American News recounted the mutually contradictory theories that the NTSB had floated immediately following the crash, the statements made by retired fire fighters and police officers who had witnessed the crash, and the history of similar crashes, and concluded that the agency was frantically seeking to calm a public whose faith in commercial aviation had hit rock bottom.

In the medical theories prevalent in the West from Classical Antiquity up to the Middle Ages, the body's health depended on the equilibrium between four " humors " or vital fluids: blood, phlegm, " yellow bile " ( or choler ) and " black bile ".

Christopher Tyerman incorporates both arguments in his thesis ; namely, that the Crusade developed out of church reform and theories of holy war as much as it was a response to conflicts with the Islamic world throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Beginning before World War I the well-known German architect and painter Paul Schultze-Naumburg's influential writings, which invoked racial theories in condemning modern art and architecture, supplied much of the basis for Adolf Hitler's belief that classical Greece and the Middle Ages were the true sources of Aryan art.

In terms of theories of cultural diffusion he influenced Nathanael Carpenter, and many subsequently, with his “ south-eastern origin ” theory of the transmission from peoples of the Middle East to Greece and Rome ( and hence to Northern Europe ).

The theories that the ringfort either pre-or post-dates the Early Middle Ages in Ireland, are both based on essentially the same premise, as is highlighted here by Tadhg O ’ Keefe in relation to the latter argument.

Other theories propose that it is from Middle English and Middle French words for a type of fern.

Various theories suggest that the name is derived from the Greek words δαίμων daimon (' spirit ' given the Christian connotations of ' demon ' in the early Middle Ages )— or, less likely δῆμος demos (' people ')— and Γοργών Gorgon (' grim ') or γοργός gorgos (' quick ').

Such theories enjoy no scholarly support today, as all available evidence traces the development of alphabetic writing to the Middle East, although there is some testimony by classical Roman sources, as well as a few assorted tombstones, indicating that Greek letters were sometimes used in Germany, in addition to Gaul, by the time of Julius Caesar ( 1st century BC ).

His theories about the chronology of the Middle East and Israel before the first century BC later attracted the attention of Anatoly Fomenko, who based his own New Chronology upon them.

On the other hand, " post-colonial " theories ( such as those put forth by Edward Said ) for the relative absence of liberal democracy in the Middle East are diverse, from the long history of imperial rule by the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France and the contemporary political and military intervention by the United States, all of which have been blamed for preferring authoritarian regimes because this simplifies the business environment, while enriching the governing elite and the companies of the imperial countries.

Middle Platonism was promoted by the necessity of considering the main theories of the post-Platonic schools of philosophy, such as the Aristotelian logic and the Stoic psychology and ethics ( theory of goods and emotions ).

On the one hand the Middle Platonists were engaged like the later Peripatetics in scholarly activities such as the exposition of Plato's doctrines and the explanation of his dialogues ; on the other hand they attempted to develop the Platonic theories systematically.

In the speech, the president said there were three theories about the 2001 attacks, with the second being " That some segments within the U. S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime.

One of the most prominent theories is that victims suffered from ergot poisoning, which was known as St Anthony's Fire in the Middle Ages.

In response to the defeat of the First World War and of his own marginalization in the interwar architectural discourse, Schultze-Naumburg's articles and books began to take on a far harsher and less progressive character, condemning modern art and architecture in racial terms, thereby providing much of the basis for Adolf Hitler's theories in which classical Greece and the Middle Ages were the true sources of Aryan art. Schultze-Naumburg wrote such books as Die Kunst der Deutschen.

The breed traces its ancestry to the Middle Ages, and there are several theories for the breed's origin.

* Grant, E. Much Ado about Nothing: theories of space and vacuum from the Middle Ages to the scientific revolution ( Cambridge, 1981 ).