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Ancient historical research grouped under the expression "barbarian invasions" or "great invasions" the migratory movements of Germanic, Hunnic and other populations, since the arrival of the Huns in eastern central Europe.
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The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the period of decline of the Western Roman Empire in which it lost its ruling authority and its vast territory was divided into numerous successor polities. -
El cristianismo es una religión abrahámica monoteísta basada en la vida y enseñanzas de Jesús de Nazaret. Es la religión más extensa del mundo con un número estimado de 2400 millones de seguidores, siendo el catolicismo la confesión cristiana con más fieles.
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The Medieval Period of music is is the longest “period” of music (it covers 900 years!!) and runs right through from around the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the beginning of the Renaissance.
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The Medieval Period of music is the period from the years c. 500 to 1400. It is the longest “period” of music (it covers 900 years!!) and runs right through from around the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the beginning of the Renaissance.
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The term Gregorian chant generally refers to a type of plain, simple, monodic chant with music subject to the text used in the liturgy of the Catholic Church, although it is sometimes used in a broad sense or even as a synonym for chant.
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Feudalism was the leading way of political and economic life in the Medieval era. Monarchs, like kings and queens, maintained control and power by the support of other powerful people called lords. Lords were always men who owned extravagant homes, called manors, and estates in the country.
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Magna Carta Libertatum, commonly called Magna Carta, is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor.
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In the early 1400s, the Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) reintroduced a means of rendering the recession of space, called linear perspective. In Brunelleschi's technique, lines appear to converge at a single fixed point in the distance.
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The Renaissance began in Italy in the mid 1300s and spread to other parts of Europe in the 1400s and 1500s. Let's look more closely at this "great rebirth" of interest in classical art and learning.
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Printing is a mechanical method intended to reproduce texts and images on paper, vellum, cloth or other material. In its classic form, it consists of applying an ink, generally oily, on metallic pieces to transfer or record it by pressure.
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Spanish Inquisition, (1478–1834), judicial institution ostensibly established to combat heresy in Spain.