The image of Gaddafi's "revolting slaughter not just medieval but primeval", stayed with Mr Putin.
Updike summons up a late medieval Denmark, just beginning to sense northward currents from the Renaissance.
For centuries, this walled medieval city just outside of Florence has produced some of the world's finest fabrics, becoming a powerhouse for "Made in Italy" chic.
Participants and teachers live in private apartments scattered throughout this small medieval town just north of Todi, and meals are taken communally in the school's dining room.
Right in the heart of medieval Florence, just by the house where Dante lived, the Sani is a simple, no-frills address, and very reasonably-priced.
It is late 12th-century, from a monastery in northern Italy, and it looks toward galleries of medieval art just ahead.
Start with Piazza dei Cavalieri, a square ringed by medieval buildings just east of the Campo, then head for Via Dini and Borgo Stretto, a street with most of the best shopping options.
Olivier and the Provence of his day, long after the triumph of Christianity, face a different invasion: the Black Death is going to tear at the fabric of medieval society just as the Burgundians and Visigoths destroyed Roman Gaul.
Joe Ray, food and travel writer and photographer There is an old taverna on the main square in Pedraza, a fabulous medieval town just north of Madrid, in the region of Segovia in the very heart of Spain.
From its offbeat bars and cafes to its medieval churches, just walking through the city filled with German gothic, Italian Baroque and French classicist architecture, and Russian Orthodox domes open your senses.
