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* Middle Ages: 10 Interesting Facts About This Period in History * The Rise of Feudalism in the Middle Ages * Middle Ages: The Most Important Events in Medieval History * Exploring the Middle Ages Through Today's Technology * The Influence of the Church in the Middle Ages * Medieval Art: An Overview of the Middle Ages * The Effects of the Black Death During the Middle Ages * How Religion Shaped the Middle Ages * Medieval Warfare: An Overview of the Middle Ages * The Role of Women During the Middle Ages * The Decline of Feudalism in the Middle Ages
The twin city combining Buda and Pest straddling the Danube rose to prominence in the Middle Ages. It has faced takeovers by Mongols, Ottomans and the Habsburgs, and played a role in the fall of European communism. Thomas Lorman explore the history of the Hungarian capital
The classic Transylvanian-style vampire—male, nocturnal, fanged—is really a product of folklore and gothic horror after the middle ages (with garlic, mirrors, crosses and stakes coming at various times from various places). But human blood-eating creatures of pleasure were present in ancient folktales as well. They are not prominent, but the Lamia and the Empousa, both…
Irish mythology was originally a spoken tradition, but much of it was eventually written down in the Middle Ages by Christian monks, who Christianised it to some extent. Nevertheless, these tales may shed some light on what Samhain meant and how it was marked in ancient Ireland. Irish mythology tells us that Samhain was one…