Threshing and pig feeding from a book of hours from the Workshop of the Master of James...
The Age of Augustus, the Birth of Christ, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, c.1852 / Getty Images, Creative Commons...
Vincenzo Camuccini’s depiction of the death of Julius Caesar / Getty Images, Creative Commons Caesar made politics...
Detail of A carole: shawms and bagpipes played from the gallery to accompany dancers, including Courtesy and...
Examining the close interdependence of medieval science, technology and religion: the Cathedral. By Dr. Hans Peter Broedel...
Kleroterion. This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted...
Ancient Athens was a remarkably peaceful and well-ordered society by both ancient and contemporary standards. By Adriaan...
The Gracchi, by Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume / Wikimedia Commons A law gave the Senate the power...
Socrates teaching Alcibiades, by François-André Vincent, 1776 / Musée Fabre, Wikimedia Commons Would a more powerful Socrates...
Hitler signing the Munich Agreement, 30 Sep 1938 / Public Domain The Munich Agreement is commonly called...
Peter the Hermit Preaching the First Crusade – From the Painting by James Archer / Wikimedia Commons...
Same-sex unions are an integral part of the long, complex and hotly contested history of marriage. ...
Exploring the ways in which the law was used to control sex in late medieval and Tudor...
The border between San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico / Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde,...
Roman Triumphal arch (Arch of Titus) panel copy from Beth Hatefutsoth, showing spoils of Jerusalem temple /...
A 16th century chart of Europe and North Africa. Luis Texieira, Portolan Chart, Lisbon, ca. 1600 via...
Kant accepted the basic proposition that a theory of duties—a set of rules telling us what we’re...
In his famous work Republic, Plato discusses the concept of the `True Lie’ or the `Lie in...
Barcelona’s harbor in the 18th Century / Wikimedia Commons In the early-18th century, absolute monarchies set about...
Monetary, fiscal, military, political, and economic issues are all very much intertwined. Lecture by Dr. Joseph R....
AboutWorldLanguages.com The Shan of northern Myanmar speak a language of the Tai-Kadai family found from southern China,...
Ancient temples of Bagan / Photo by Nicholas Kenrick, Wikimedia Commons Humans lived in the region that...
Although the original purpose of the convention was to amend the Articles of Confederation, some—though not all—delegates...
Radical pamphleteer Thomas Paine advocated a republic: a state without a king. By Dr. P. Scott Corbett,...
The Scholar with His Student, Anonymous Flemish painter (circle of Gerard Thomas and Balthasar van den Bossche)...
The big, new ideas of high medieval academia were Aristotle’s. By Dr. Hans Peter Broedel Graduate Director,...
Young Women in the Garden, 1939, by Nguyễn Gia Trí / Heidelberg University, Creative Commons As early...
Egyptian hieroglyphics depict the pouring out of beer / Wikimedia Commons Women held many important and influential...
You want the truth? You can’t handle the … wait: it’s actually quite simple. Daveblog As is...
Page 789, Munsey’s Magazine, 1909: story “The higher pragmatism” Extract of illus from scan. Author O. Henry,...