Early agrarian women—like these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years ago—may have been...
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A 15th century CE painting by Jean Fouquet depicting the Second Crusaders (1147-49 CE), led by Louis...
Pope Urban’s motives in preaching the First Crusade are unclear. By Sarah Hough Dickinson College Pope Urban’s...
In the mid-16th century, Elizabeth I’s government came up with a series of measures to deter “divers...
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugene Delacroix, 1840 / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The...
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia,...
The Inquisition Tribunal, by Francisco Goya, c.1815 / Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Wikimedia...
The charred papyrus scroll recovered from Herculaneum is preserved in 12 trays mounted under glass. Here is...
Carolingian gatehouse, Lorsch Abbey (Torhalle Kloster Lorsch) / Photo by Warrox, Wikimedia Commons The Carolingian Dynasty is...
Procopius of Caesarea, Creative Commons It has been a subject of much debate what Procopius actually thought...
Simon of Trent (1472 – March 21, 1475) was a Christian boy from the city of Trento,...
A man administers a security screening at the Clinton Engineer Works, part of the Manhattan Project. (By...
A detail of the 13th-century Fontana Maggiore in Perugia with the fables of The Wolf and the Crane and The Wolf and the Lamb...
The Roman Forum / Photo by Bert Kaufmann, Wikimedia Commons The best intentions often end in the...
Roman villa in Gaul sacked by the hordes of Attila the Hun, by Georges Rochegrosse, 1910 /...
The dispute between Gregory VII and Henry IV over episcopal appointments brought an emperor barefoot to Canossa...
Khalil Bendib, OtherWords, Creative Commons While we’re shouting that the emperor has no clothes, we should also...
The Black Death was the largest demographic disaster in European history. By Dr. David Routt / 07.20.2008...
Svjatoslav Svjatoslav’s lands were divided by his sons, who fought a war of succession. By Dr. Sanderson...
Examining how the Church, a powerful force in the Middle Ages, was organized, why people went on...
Settlers brought relatives from the west, formed marriage alliances for themselves and their children in the east,...
Walters Art Museum, Creative Commons There is a common perception assumes that demonic possession, witchcraft, and superstition...
A Tournament Contest from Tournament Book, about 1560–70, unknown illuminator, made in Germany. The J. Paul Getty...
The Mongol Empire expanded through brutal raids and invasions, but also established routes of trade and technology...
From The Rurik Dynasty Exhibition / Visit St. Petersbug The Varangians ruled the medieval state of Kievan Rus...
Siamese ambassador Kosa Pan presents King Narai’s letter to Louis XIV’s court at Versailles, 1686 / Wikimedia...
A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919 CE) depicting Roman senator Cicero (106-43 BCE) denouncing the conspirator Catiline...
Henotheism recognizes many gods while elevating one as supreme, a religious pattern found across ancient Greece and...
A Muisca (Chibcha) seated gold figure on a stool (tunjo). Colombia, 10th-16th century CE. (Metropolitan Museum of...
A brief critical survey of the development, implications, and limitations of the Age of Commerce paradigm in...