A storm shook Moscow on August 25, 1530, and as the thunder rolled, Ivan IV was born....
History
He came into power at a time when Russian princes were still competing among themselves and struggling...
Two powerful and often conflicting legal systems had emerged. Early Development When the Germanic tribes entered the...
What are and should be the implications of the publication of the Black Notebooks for the reception of Heidegger...
Hostility against Jews intensified in the course of the crises caused by social and cultural changes. Introduction Beginning...
Examining how issues of representation and aesthetics impacted the environmental history of early modern Europe. Early modern interaction...
The sheriff of Stirling was ordered by the king to make the perpetrators reconstruct the abbey’s infrastructure within...
Athens wanted to put an end to the economic competition of Aegina. Kosmos Society / 11.2018 Aegina...
The order was formed c.1119 CE when seven knights, led by French nobleman Hugh of Payns, swore...
A new realization of the value of their labor and an unwillingness to be exploited lay behind...
The idea of people of different social levels living together on a single estate for mutual benefit...
Alexander the Great’s cause of death has been contentious since antiquity. By Nathan Gamble (left) and...
PTSD is a relatively modern term, but the symptoms are as old as civilization itself. In the BBC’s Bodyguard, Richard Madden plays...
From activist and academic roots, a field takes shape. By Dr. Kritika AgarwalManaging EditorPerspectives On HistoryAmerican Historical...
Examining comparisons and connections between British and Dutch migration circuits with Asia. Introduction The emergence of colonial migration...
By Dr. Pieter C. Emmer (left) and Dr. Leo Lucassen (right)Emmer: Professor Emeritus of HistoryLucassen: Professor...
It can easilybe argued that the United States exists today becausemedieval Europeans liked spicy food. Introduction The...
Oheka Castle on Long Island served as one of the inspirations for Jay Gatsby’s estate in F....
For centuries, readers have written in the margins of their books to indicate admiration, disagreement or inspiration. Plath was...
To assume that we cannot learn from the ancients is, ironically, to fulfill a type of hubris...
The possible futures predicted by fortune-telling happen just often enough to tantalize, preying on our deepest aspirations...
Recovering a more capacious social topology from the Thomist theology that modern Western philosophy supplanted. Titled Declarations of Dependence:...
By Dr. Sabeen AhmedPhD Candidate, Department of PhilosophyVanderbilt University Poi ch’innalzai un poco piu’le ciglia,vidi ‘l maestro...
The Domus Aurea (Golden House), located between the Esquiline and Palatine Hills, was one of Nero’s most...
Examining scale of emigration, the reasons behind emigrants’ departure, the various origins and destinations, and the attitudes in...
Examining the inter-relationship of religion and culture in the time period of medieval Spain known as the...
Because of its geography, Russia is a relatively easy country to invade from both east and west....
Russia spans not only two continents, butalso eleven time zones. Introduction Meet the Giant Imagine a giant...
The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson was not...
In the last years of his life, Dante Alighieri was an unsuspecting witness to a rapid shift...