It is well known that European royal families tend to marry among each other to either maintain or expand their power-base. Yet the Danish King Christian ix managed to take it to a whole new level.
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Notions of ‘Christendom’ often miss the mark – medieval Europe’s ideas about faith and power were not so simple
There has never been a singular Christian perspective on how religion, power and politics ought to relate to each other – not even in medieval ‘Christendom.’ ...
More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.
Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...
Twelve years after its release, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is now streaming for free. Find out more about the WW2 biopic here.
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