Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...

This is all reminiscent of the Middle Ages when every great political figure had a nickname. Sometimes royal nicknames mocked (or celebrated) people’s physical appearance: Charles the Bald, Charles ...

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By Adrian Wooldridge, Bloomberg Opinion In one of the most memorable scenes in “Pulp Fiction,” a film replete with memorable scenes, a Los Angeles gangster, Marsellus Wallace, turns the tables ...

Chivalry, craftsmanship and chaos: Inside Qld’s thriving medieval scene They walk among us as colleagues, neighbours, teachers and friends. They might not tell you, but they are part of one of ...

Deputy Minister of Culture Todor Chobanov has opened the exhibition " On the Waves of the Black Sea through the Ages" in the Segur Hall in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The event is part of ...

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Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also refused to translate the Bible into the various tongues of the common people, the vernacular languages, in order to further hinder personal Bible ...

xv, 228 pages : 24 cm "Proposing that people lived (and live) in "emotional communities"--Each having its own particular norms of emotional valuation and expression - Barbara H. Rosenwein here ...

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