A rather unusual petition from October 1716 is tucked away in the pope’s diocesan archives in the basilica of San…
During the Second World War the Allies waged a bombing campaign over occupied France that cost the lives of more…
For millennia everybody knew that human beings enjoy a privileged, unique position at the centre of the universe. That self-confidence…
The centurion played a crucial role in the success of the Roman army, serving as the backbone of both military…
Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor, was born on February 8, 1405, into a dynasty struggling to maintain control…
Some 2,000 war and merchant ships were sunk in the waters of Southeast Asia during the Second World War, constituting…
The Franco-Ottoman alliance, formed in the 1530s between the king of France, François I, and the Turkish ruler of the…
On the evening of 1 August 1952 General Dwight D.Eisenhower, the newly nominated Republican presidential nominee, met with his advisers…
The Phantom Time Thesis suggests that nearly three centuries of medieval history—from 614 to 911 AD—never actually occurred. This theory,…
Medieval crimes ranged from the familiar—like theft and murder—to the distinctly unusual. One particularly notable crime was the violation of…