Medieval America lamented cultural fall

Pessimists often compare today’s troubled America to a tottering late Rome or an insolvent and descending British Empire. But medieval Europe (roughly 500 to 1450 A.D.) is the more apt comparison. The medieval world was a nearly 1,000-year period of spectacular, if haphazard, human achievement – along with endemic insecurity, superstition and two, rather than three,…