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.

* The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East

From the early Middle Ages until after the Second Vatican Council the sacrament was administered, within the Latin Church, only when death was approaching and, in practice, bodily recovery was not ordinarily looked for, giving rise, as mentioned above to the name " Extreme Unction " ( i. e. final anointing ).

She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.

Church Law and Constitutional Thought in the Middle Ages.

People in the Middle Ages did not always know to which of the many lords, the Church and the individual churches, the towns, princes, and kings, they were subordinate.

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for the largest Christian church in Egypt and the Middle East.

In the early Middle Ages, the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church was ruled by five patriarchs: the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem ; these were collectively referred to as the Pentarchy.

In the Middle Ages the two were treated as Christian saints, being entered in the Greek Orthodox calendar on 26 August, and in the Roman Martyrology in the Western Church as " Barlaam and Josaphat " on the date of 27 November.

Along with Bibles, large numbers of manuscripts made in the Middle Ages were revieved in Church.

During the Middle Ages, several movements emerged which were collectively described as " Manichaean " by the Catholic Church, and persecuted as Christian heresies through the establishment, in 1184, of the Inquisition.

In the Middle Ages in Europe a number of significant feast days in the ecclesiastical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church came to be used as the beginning of the Julian year:

* The Church of the Annunciation is the largest Christian church in the Middle East.

Towards the latter part of the Middle Ages in Europe, both the State-the State would use the instrument of confiscation for the first time to satisfy a debt-and the Church-the Church succeeded in acquiring immense quantities of land-were allied against the village community to displace the small landlord and they were successful to the extent that today, the village has become the ideal of the individualist, a place in which every man " does what he wills with his own.

The Church of the Annunciation is the largest Christian church building in the Middle East under the supervision of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches

Other misconceptions such as: " the Church prohibited autopsies and dissections during the Middle Ages ," " the rise of Christianity killed off ancient science ," and " the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of the natural sciences ," are all reported by Numbers as examples of widely popular myths that still pass as historical truth, even though they are not supported by current historical research.

In 1997, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs ( which is critical of United States and Israeli policies ), praised the Times ( along with The Christian Science Monitor owned by the Church of Christ, Scientist ), and the Times ’ sister publication The Middle East Times for their objective and informative coverage of Islam and the Middle East, while criticizing the Times generally pro-Israel editorial policy.

In 2003, on notification by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, about 500 Christians, Muslims, Jews and other international and interfaith tourists joined the Unification Church Middle East Peace Initiative " to such a degree that the Old Gates were opened by the Israeli police near the Wailing Wall, and by the Muslim leadership at Al Aqsa, without incident ", as the official UN-report says.

Unification Church held dialogues between the members of the Israeli Knesset and the Palestinian Parliament as part of his Middle East Peace Initiatives.

* Middle English begins to develop, and literacy begins to spread outside the Church throughout Europe.

The Orthodox Church is a Christian body whose adherents are largely based in Russia, Greece, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, with a growing presence in the western world.