Essays on Medieval Europe

In the book Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali Mecca was a city of Saudi Arabia which was a holy spot where the Muslims yearly heavily assembled called the Hajj happens. It is trusted that a Muslim should take a visit at this heavenly...

Medieval Europe shared some similarities with medieval Japan, yet they also shared conflicts. One including their soldier or their warriors, those who struggled for their land. In medieval Europe they took horses and in Japan they took samurais, they fought in different ways. They were...

The Knights of Medieval Europe and Samurai of Shogunate Japan shared a number of similar characteristics such as a strict code of behaviour which emphasised honour and loyalty, and both were mounted warriors that relied heavily on their swords. However, the Samurai also had the...

Within the Middle Ages there were countless wars to be found. There was however, one war in particular which would remain in the World’s history books as one of the bloodiest wars of the Middle Ages. England and France have never had any sort of...

The Mali Empire is an empire well-known for its wealth and religious influence in the West Africa. The empire was established in 1235 Common era by King Sundiata Keita and began through the merging of smaller Malinnike kingdoms within Ghana and the upper Niger river...

According the stories of Boccaccio, Margery Kempe, and Abelard and Heloise, it can easily be assumed that religion, culture, and social life in medieval Europe did bring restrictions to the activities of women. Although some women who lived in medieval Europe do show cases of...

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni has been considered to be one of the most inspirational and talented artists that lived during the early modern world. The western world during his time was undergoing possibly the most significant period of change since the fall of the...

Films about the Middle Ages are inherently modern creations. They tend to reflect the concerns and preoccupations of their modern context rather than those of the people who lived throughout the Middle Ages. One could argue that it is natural for contemporary issues to influence...

Edgar Allen Poe is a well-known writer, editor, and critic. Edgar is best known for his stories and poems. He wrote many of them around the idea of romanticism. He is one of the main authors known for Romanticism in American Literature. The Enlightenment era...

There are many political problems existent in Mongolia. In 2017, the fifth presidential election was held and even though there were more than 66 percent of the people voting, not even one candidate had gotten the needed 51 percent of votes to win, because of...

Mongolia is a country located between two great powers Russia and China. This is a unique positioning in the international affairs arena, which requires it’s foreign and security policies to be balanced with its two neighbors and countries beyond. Therefore, Mongolia does not face immediate...

Mongolia is a Central Asian country bordered by China and Russia, known for its huge tracts of largely empty grassland, frozen winters and nomadic history. Mongolia is an independent, landlocked nation. Mongolia’s absolute location is 46.8625 North and 103.8476 East and is located in both...

The Middle Ages began from 900 AD and ended at around 1300 AD. During that period of time, it was often to be referred to as the “Dark Ages”, and this period of time was, in fact, a “Dark” age for most people because there...

The period of time between four hundred AD and 1400 AD should not be referred to as a “Dark Age”. Since this historical argument uses the term, Dark Age, it’s best mentioned as a depression of some sort or a fall with the cultural or...

The Dark Ages, when you hear something like that term you would probably think of a bad time. A time that no one wants to think about, and that people assume to be terrible and wrong. But is that really true? I believe that this...

“What is a man if not chivalrous?” a sentence that was as common as the air our colonial ancestors breathed. Unfortunately, much like the polluted air to which we are subjected to in the 21st century, the above sentence has tarnished and had its share...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a 14th century medieval English poetic story on romance and male chivalry. It is categorized as an Athurian story combining aspect of chivalry from the French, Irish, Welsh and English cultures as shown through the codes of behavior...

Sometimes we find ourselves looking back at time remembering all the highs and lows we have been through and at the end just admiring the simple life that once occurred. Chivalry does the same thing by bringing us back in time but by adding some...

Inside the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” is a story that deals and revolves around the ‘demonic’ Arnold Friend who is seen to possess some signs and unpredictable behaviors that can be said to be satanic, he is seen to have...