. . . "Illumination of the Middle Ages" . "Hammer of the world" . . "Saint and the scholar" . . . . . . "Jewelled city" . . . . "The Middle Ages was a time of extremes, Europe was becoming a flourishing continent, yet the apocalypse, it was believed, was almost upon them. It was a time when many lived in barbarism, yet it yielded great men of thought, poets, religious thinkers, philosophers and politicians." . "History" . . "Strange landscape the illumination of the Middle Ages" . . . . . . "Summary: The Middle Ages was a time of extremes, Europe was becoming a flourishing continent, yet the apocalypse, it was believed, was almost upon them. It was a time when many lived in barbarism, yet it yielded great men of thought, poets, religious thinkers, philosophers and politicians." . "Fires of faith" . "Circles of light" . . . . . . "476 - 1500" . . "BBC Education & Training." . . "Europe" . . . .