Missionary drive was virtually a necessity of political security in the early medieval West.

Many scholars today, however, question whether or not Russia ever really had a feudal political system parallel to that of the medieval West.

The works of Kharazmi "exercised a profound influence on the development of mathematical thought in the medieval West".

First, the earliest surviving independent images of the Virgin Mary are found in Rome, the center of Christianity in the medieval West.

Old Dutch naturally evolved into Middle Dutch, having some distinctions which approximate those found in most medieval West Germanic languages.

Cassian is noted for bringing the ideas and practices of Egyptian monasticism to the early medieval West.

Examples from this period are most common in the early medieval West, for example in Burgundy at Dijon and Tournus.

In the medieval West, "Roman" came to mean the church and the Pope of Rome.

Also, corruptions of the Arabic term such as ganzaar, genzahar, geuzaar and zeuzahar were used in the medieval West to denote either of the nodes.