Milestones of History

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Lechfeld, the battleground outside Augsburg on St. Lawrence’s day, 10 August 955 A. D., was highly significant for the whole

The birth of Hungary The battle of the Lechfeld, which was so important to Western Europe, had an equally profound

Norsemen or Vikings – Danes, Norwegians and Swedes — were terrorizing the greater part of Europe, over a thousand years

Hugh Capet was coronated in 987 and with that, began the French dominance of Europe. During the eleventh century, a

William of Normandy, the conqueror, was also descended from English kings and was convinced that King Edward had promised him

Galilee Chapel in Durham Cathedral. Durham was the greatest of the Norman ecclesiastical border fortress in the north of England.

Henry IV stood barefoot in the snow, for three days in January, 1077, outside Canossa castle, waiting to see Pope

Toledo falls and this marks the beginning of the end of Islam in Spain. A triumph for orthodoxy The events

Abelard, Peter – a renowned teacher from Paris, surrounded by a group of questioning students – formed the nucleus of

Southern France, the cult of courtly love, takes root and flourishes. In the glories of its new cathedral, the town