Ancient Sparta built its power on military discipline and Helot labor, while citizen women possessed greater freedom...
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Near Oymyakon in Yakutia, Russia / Photo Maarten Takens, Wikimedia Commons To work out how the climate...
Examining the Virgin Hodegetria reveals how myth, ritual performance, and sacred imagery shaped Byzantine religious identity and...
What happens when an entire society succumbs to childlike behavior and discourse? Elantseva Marina Our social institutions and...
The Death of Patroclus – Illustration from page 265 of ‘The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr...
During the period of 1524 until 1648, Europe was plagued by wars of religion. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew...
The first important transformation of English medieval design practice occurred in a military context, during the reign...
Statue of Constantine the Great in Yorkminster / Creative Commons Even had its Empire never existed, Byzantium...
Genghis Khan had a vision to unite all the different tribes under one Mongol rule. By Hayley...
Professor David Carpenter and Professor Nicholas Vincent discuss the reign of King John, the grievances of the...
Narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, this animation takes you back in time to medieval England in...
Although the Vikings’ time in East Anglia was relatively brief, they made many contributions to the area’s...
Viking swords / Wikimedia Commons Historians have used written accounts and archaeological records to determine that Vikings...
They were portrayed as a sacred mission to reclaim the Holy Land – Jerusalem. However, as most...
Medieval map of Jerusalem by Konrad Grünenberg / Wikimedia Commons The Kingdom of Israel was created after the...
Byzantine Constantinople (modern Istanbul), c.1000 CE / Wikimedia Commons Surveying the many written sources for Byzantine history. By...
Medieval Novgorod, by Apollinary Vasnetsov / Wikimedia Commons The Vikings raided, traded and settled as far afield...
Chieftains house replica / Photo by Juanjo Marin, Wikimedia Commons Archaeological artefacts found in places such as...
Image of Timbuktu manuscripts / Wikimedia Commons The history of illuminated manuscripts goes back to antiquity. In this...
Papyrus Bodmer VIII / Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Wikimedia Commons What did books look like in antiquity? In...
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary / Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikimedia Commons The transition from parchment to paper as...
Screenshot from a video game called War of the Vikings showing fighting Vikings, with some of their ships visible, too. /...
Viking Longship Replica / Wikimedia Commons The Vikings used a variety of vessels for different purposes, from...
Seventh ecumenical council, Icon, 17th century, Novodevichy Convent, Moscow / Photo by shakko, Wikimedia Commons Byzantine scribes...
Alt-right protestors in Berkley, CA in 2017. White nationalists and American Neo-Nazis want the rest of us...
Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia / Photo by Bin im Garten, Wikimedia Commons What is the...
The Plague at Ashdod, by Nicolas Poussin / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The word influenza is derived from the...
Large grain marble head believed to be a local (Mediolanum) copy of an official portrait of Roman emperor Claudius (41-54...
Gallery in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (photo:Â Dr. Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) When people think of museums,...
These ten historical moments help us understand the long and complicated relationships Catalunya has had with Spain...