The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series continues with an episode on the Christian mercenaries who served Muslim rulers in medieval Iberia and North Africa. In a time marked ...

Homer's Iliad is one of the foundational stories of European civilisation. The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down i ...

The Triangle Sword Guild reconstructs Historical European Martial Arts with a blend of research and martial training with ...

“From the northern coast of Africa to the highlands of Scotland ... became an important symbolic figure in the Crusades as a warrior saint. Saint George’s hagiography looms particularly ...

Amy Lea is an Ottawa-based contemporary romance writer and Canadian bureaucrat. Her previous novels include Woke Up Like This, which was on the Canada Reads 2024 longlist, Exes and O's and Set on You.

From ancient legends to epic tales, the world is obsessed with magic and murals. No wonder mythology has always sparked ...

Matt Stirn I first learned of Sudan’s extraordinary pyramids as a boy, in the British historian Basil Davidson’s 1984 documentary series “Africa ... during the medieval era to build ...

In the second millennium, beginning in the 12th century, says medieval historian Miri Rubin ... more recently, in Africa as Christianity has spread there. Sister Marzena Michalczyck, 31, a nun ...

Thanks to the northward drift of Africa, the “boot” of Italy is ... called the decision “very Italian and medieval.” The appeal of the L’Aquila verdict took another two years.

The extraordinary longevity of the Catholic Church could make it seem like a body that floats above the everyday world of ...