Bookworms were a problem in the Middle Ages, but a decent vellum parchment could last 300 years.
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When it comes to teaching, the productivity of a professor in the Middle Ages and that of a professor today are not very different.
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She could picture him as a king in the Middle Ages: Cal the Seriously Off.
Europeans in the Middle Ages also developed a taste for trade with China and the Indies.
In the Middle Ages the area was a magnet for hermits, who came there to devote themselves to penance and prayer.
The old bazaars in Kandahar are like a scene from the Middle Ages with men and young boys running tiny shops or working as jewellers or tinsmiths.
In the high Middle Ages, chess became a popular pastime for the upper crust, both men and women.
In the middle ages, for example, a biting plague another socially contagious behavior spread among nuns in convents and all the way to the mother house in Rome.
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This system arose as a solution to a problem: As business expanded in the Middle Ages, Masters of various crafts could no longer depend on family members to work in the shop.
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In the Middle Ages it was discovered to be a rich source of aluminium sulphate - a crucial raw material used as a fixing agent in dyeing cloth.
Now, they are being asked to approve policies that no one has used since the dark ages, while in the middle of a crisis no living person understands.
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In England, murder fell by a factor of 100 from the Middle Ages until today.
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For historians, the Paston Letters have long been a fascinating insight into the soap opera lives of gentry in the Middle Ages.
Since he replaced Pope John Paul II, Benedict has made repeated calls for religious tolerance and freedom in Islamic countries - most notably in his 2006 speech at Regensberg where he quoted a Byzantine emperor from the Middle Ages criticizing Islam for seeking to spread its message by the sword.
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Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages.
The tradition of gingerbread making appeared in certain European monasteries during the Middle Ages and came to Croatia where it became a craft.
Take Prato, a beautiful town in Tuscany that grew rich on foreign trade in textiles during the Middle Ages and has the churches and paintings to show for it.
"This unique instance of a hospital and its records surviving from the Middle Ages is exceptionally rare in this country, " said Derrick Murphy, Leader of Norfolk County Council and Chairman of the Norfolk Records Committee.
Mr Gove said teachers were encouraged to teach the early Middle Ages "by studying the depiction of King John as a cowardly lion in Disney's Robin Hood".
It is reputed to be haunted by more than 20 ghosts - including a choir of nuns and Sir Roderick of Portchester who was murdered outside the manor in the Middle Ages.
Britain has had a reserve of part-time or retired soldiers - often known as yeomanry - since the Middle Ages but the system was only regularised in 1907 with the passing of legislation creating a Territorial Force.
In the Middle Ages, for example, city-states in present-day Italy or Spain traded from a position of strength with north European suppliers of textiles and north African sellers of gold.
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