What is the context for Shakespeare’s Roman plays? Why did classical Rome capture the interest of people...
Middle Ages
Laetus emulated the life of the ancient Romans, living in a modest house on the Esquiline. Introduction...
Islamic medicine was built on tradition, chiefly the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in Greece and Rome....
A medieval person would have looked upon the owl and the birds and seen a Christian parable....
The plague, named the Black Death by later historians, had a devastating effect on the European population...
With no accurate knowledge about the disease and the way it was spread, what could be done...
We can now catch tiny pieces of DNA from ancient diseases and look for clues about how...
The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death with dancing along to the...
A mass grave since 1223, bodies were exhumed and the bones were moved to the Catacombs in...
People felt overwhelmed as it seems as though they believed that what had happened to others elsewhere...
The first definitive outbreak of plague was the Plague of Justinian as recorded by Procopius which killed...
The Guptas were ambitious rulers and by the end of the fourth century claimed dominance over a...
It is believed that King Janak, ruler of Mithila Kingdom in the 8th or 7th century BCE,...
“Teachers and professors use articles to evaluate and assess the progress of students.” Historical articles are very...
Examining modern remedies derived from medieval monastic knowledge. Most people think of herbal medicine as a distinctly...
The spirits and gods were believed to make their presence known through disease. Introduction When people fall...
The Northern Wei was the most enduring and powerful of the northern Chinese dynasties before reunification. Imperial...
The ‘Caves of the Thousand Buddhas’ are a magnificent treasure trove of Buddhist art. A Trove of...
Propaganda tactics are timeless. While the game has moved on since the time of Augustus, the rules...
The Wars of the Roses displayed an ever-increasing tendency to use violence to achieve political aims. Introduction...
Mechanical machinery in the medieval centuries used innovative sources of energy to generate motion and mechanical power....
There have been three great world pandemics of bubonic plague recorded, in 541, 1347, and 1894 CE....
The Papacy in the Late Middle Ages had a major secular role in addition to its spiritual...
Christianity began in first century C.E. Jerusalem as a Jewish sect, but quickly spread throughout the Roman...
The earliest surviving examples of Chinese painting are fragments of painting on silk, stone, and lacquer items....
The Varyags are first mentioned by the Primary Chronicle as having exacted tribute from the Slavic and...
The name “Byzantine Empire” is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries. Introduction...
Three types of historical writing flourished in the Middle Ages: chronicles, hagiography, and the rhetorical monograph. By...
The vigorous temple building activity of the Hoysala Empire arose from the social, cultural and political events...
The Hoysala era emerged as an important period in the development of art, architecture, and religion in...