Medieval studies

academic interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages

archaeological sub-discipline

German encyclopedia on the history of the Middle Ages

cultural renewal across medieval Western Europe

thumb|Corfe Castle in [[Dorset was slighted in 1646 during the English Civil War. Parliament slighted or proposed to slight more than 100 buildings, including castles, town walls, abbeys, and houses.|alt=The shattered remains of a stone building, with two walls of a tower standing higher above the ruins.]] Slighting is the deliberate damage of high-status buildings to reduce their value as military, administrative, or social structures. This destruction of property is sometimes extended to the contents of buildings and the surrounding landscape. It is a phenomenon with complex motivations and