Knights were the medieval equivalent of elite soldiers, and many of these armoured warriors have earned a place in the ...

For more than 4,000 years, humans have devised new laws in an effort to create better societies. However, history is full of laws so bizarre or brutal that they can be very difficult to understand ...

Ascending to the throne in 1413, King Henry V of the Lancaster dynasty was the man behind the Battle of Agincourt. Being particularly bellicose, he found a pretext to land in France: he demanded ...

The Celts are Indo-European peoples originating from the Danube Valley, who settled in much of Europe in antiquity. These tribes spoke the same language, with variations, and shared certain religious ...

In the Middle Ages, the imaginary is an integral part of reality. The world of that time cannot be conceived otherwise. Within this panorama, both real and wonderful, plants play a major role in ...

The period of the French Revolution is often primarily seen as a violent confrontation between two orders, the Third Estate and the nobility, with the execution of Louis XVI in 1793 being a focal ...

In Arabic, Islam means “submission to God,” and a Muslim is a person “devoted to God.” Like Jews and Christians, Muslims are monotheists. They believe there is only one God who created the world and ...

Kalasiris was a thin, form-fitting dress made of nearly transparent linen that was worn by women in ancient Egypt, both in the court and among the upper class, as well as by farmers and artisans. The ...

“All the Elves who fell into the hands of Melkor were imprisoned in Utumno before it was destroyed, and through slow and cruel arts, they were corrupted and made slaves; and thus Melkor generated the ...

Hercules at the Crossroads (Italian Ercole al bivio, Choice of Hercules) — an allegorical plot depicting the hesitations of the ancient hero Hercules between two life destinies — Virtue (Greek αρετε, ...

“Terra incognita” (Latin for “unknown land”) is a historical term in cartography referring to land masses or areas that were not yet mapped or described at the time. The term appears on old sea or ...

Cicero’s “De divinatione” (44 BCE), which rejects astrology and other supposedly divinatory techniques, serves as a rich historical source for understanding the conception of scientificity in ...