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The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world. Displayed in both The Met Fifth Avenue and in the Museum's branch in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters , the collection encompasses the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Although the fledgling Metropolitan Museum acquired its first medieval object in , the core of the collection in the Main Building was not formed until nearly fifty years later, in , when the son of the financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan donated some two thousand medieval objects that had belonged to his father. The collection has continued to grow through purchases, gifts, and bequests.

Medieval marriage practice continues to influence ceremonies today — from banns [the reading three times of your intention to marry] to declaring vows in the present tense. However, some things were very different…. In the Middle Ages, getting married was easy for Christians living in western Europe. However, while tying the knot could take a matter of moments, proving that you were wed often proved difficult. Although the church controlled — or tried to control — marriage, couples did not need to marry in a church. All that was required for a valid, binding marriage was the consent of the two people involved. In England some people did marry near churches to give greater spiritual weight to proceedings, often at the church door leading to some rather fabulous church porches being added to earlier buildings , but this still did not necessarily involve a priest.

The phantom time hypothesis is a historical conspiracy theory asserted by Heribert Illig. Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation and forgery of documentary and physical evidence. He was active in an association dedicated to Immanuel Velikovsky , catastrophism and historical revisionism , the Gesellschaft zur Rekonstruktion der Menschheits- und Naturgeschichte English: Society for the Reconstruction of Human and Natural History. Outside of his publications related to revised chronology, he has edited the works of Egon Friedell.

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