October 15, 2004

"It was a crucial but sometimes forgotten moment in the development of Western civilization: the revival of medieval European learning by a wholesale transfusion of scholarship from the Islamic world"...says the New York Review of Books this week as Moslems celebrate the month of Ramadan worldwide...

...while in other parts of the globe boys and ghouls are are gearing up for Halloween without a clue to Halloween's celtic and medieval roots or how the Church later accommodated the Christian holiday...

...and It's New! at New York Carver... Go on a virtual tour of the Middle Ages each day from December 1 to Christmas Eve with our interactive advent calendar with day-by-day links to tales, stories and images of a medieval Christmas...