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 Trà / 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,...
The Death of Chatteron (suicide with arsenic), by Henry Wallis, 1856 / Tate Britain, Wikimedia Commons Since...
There were lots of exciting forms of gambling in the Middle Ages (more than nowadays) but they...
The Mar Saba monastery well hidden in the Kidron canyon in Yehuddah Desert / Photo by Hedva...
One of the churches in Mamshit. (Creative Commons) The incense route was a path spanning more than...
Photo by Ted Spiegel/National Geographic/Getty Emotional therapy is the animating heart of religion combing social bonding surrounded...
Comet critique; the case for moral atheists. The Great Comet of 1577 by Jiri Daschitzsky. / Wikimedia...
Seven centuries of the Rothschild Pentateuch’s history chart the story. By Dr. Elizabeth Morrison / 09.19.2018 Senior...
Examining the view that the Orthodox Church stifled the development of East Slavic intellectual thought. By Dr....
Ordeal of boiling water from a Sachsenspiegel manuscript (1350 – 1375). Photo courtesy the Herzog August Bibliothek,...
In the Medieval ages there was an incredible amount of criminals, mostly because of impunity which gave...