Brodie castle, north Scotland. Albert de Bruijn, CC BY-SA How medieval spires and snarling gargoyles went out of fashion and then made a spectacular...
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Moctezuma brought social, economical, and political reform to strengthen Aztec rule, and Tenochititlan benefited from relations with...
Portrait by Jacopo Pontormo; the laurel branch (il Broncone) was a symbol used also by his heirs /...
A 14th century CE manuscript illustration depicting Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1220-1250 CE), and the Sultan of Egypt and Syria al-Kamil...
A painting depicting the surrender of the Latin ruler Guy de Lusignan to Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193...
Princeton University Library, Creative Commons Two distinctive art forms came together for a brief period in Germany...
A closer look at the historical relationship between copyright and patents reveals the common origins of these...
Vincent of Beauvais (1190 – 1264?) was a French scholar, encyclopedist and Dominican Friar. / Public Domain...
Modern reconstruction of what the Second Temple would have looked like after its renovation during the reign of Herod I...
Of Education is Milton’s contribution to contemporary debate about methods of education. By Dr. Thomas H. Luxon Professor...
First developed in China, gunpowder traveled across Eurasia and took many forms, from fire arrows and rockets...
Mass psychology and nationalism as as a form of degeneration, or a barbarous and cruel regression after the Great...
‘House of the dragoman [translator] of British Consulate Basra’, 1906 (IOR/L/PS/20/C260, f 27), Public Domain Wilfrid Malleson’s...
British Library, Public Domain Examining how drug literature—writing on drugs by drug users—has consistently resorted to Gothic conventions,...
Detail of a relief of the eastern stairs of the Apadana at Persepolis (Takht-e Jamshid), Iran /...
The Great Silk Road was a caravan road connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean from Ancient times...
A portrait of Charlemagne wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire (fifteenth century painting by Albrecht Dürer)...
The Republic at the Zenith of Its Power. Golden Liberty. The Royal Election of 1573, by Jan Matejko / Royal Castle,...
The pope may have been successful in staving off a foreign takeover of his lands, but he...
Former military officer Jair Bolsonaro has advanced to a run-off presidential election in Brazil. (Photo: O Imparcial) Those who oppose...
Inside Rome’s Colosseum visitors can view the chambers that once held animals and contenders below the arena...
Antonio Pollaiuolo, Battle of Ten Nudes (or Battle of Nude Men), c. 1465, engraving, 15-1/8 x 23-3/16″ / 38.4 x...
Blanche de Castille and King Louis IX / The Morgan Library and Museum, Wikimedia Commons Upon Louis...
Attack of the Crusaders on Constantinople, miniature in a manuscript of 9 La Conquête de Constantinople by Geoffreoy de Villehardouin, Venetian ms....
‘Liber secretorum fidelium crucis’ by Marino Sanudo with maps by Pietro Vesconte. This map of the world was...
Wall painting (1st century AD) from Pompeii depicting a multigenerational banquet / Naples National Archaeological Museum, Wikimedia...
Mountainous geography fostered independent Greek city-states. Athens and Sparta reveal how political participation in the ancient polis...
It is more than an inalienable individual right; it is fundamental to human progress. That is why...
The Acropolis at Athens painted by Leo von Klenze (1784–1864) / Public Domain Reviewing short, illustrated case...
Coastal Landscape, ca. 1599. Pen and brown, by Annibale Carracci / Public Domain Examining the phenomenon of seventeenth-century...