medieval

For a medieval economy that had scarcely grown in 1,500 years, the Industrial Revolution in the U.K. unleashed a greater concentration of material blessings than ordinary people had ever experienced.

The sobriety of “Robin Hood” does not render it less than entertaining, just slow to engage its wooden wheels in the muddy ruts of a well-known medieval tale.

A cohort of German Protestant thinkers such as Friedrich Schleiermacher theorized religion similarly—change was now progress, and liberal society clearly the heir to medieval religion.

There a medieval caste system has bred, not surprisingly, rebellion and the suspicion that all is not what it seems above ground.

The 1923 medieval galleries are now absent, but their French stone window surrounds and stained-glass windows are embedded throughout the museum.