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When Did The Middle Ages End?
When Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans in 800 CE by Pope Leo III, not a lot changed. Nobody went arou...
04 Jul
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22 Jun
The Hussite Wars, Part 1: You Can’t Burn Ideas At The Stake
Smoke rises from Domažlice. The crosses of St. George, patron saint...
30 May
The Last Viking Invasion: Battle at Stamford Bridge
The makeshift camp rang with the sounds of merrymaking, as the burgeoning heat of the late-summer morning began t...
16 May
Were the ‘Barbarians’ the True Successors of Rome?
The 'barbarian invasions' shook Roman society to its core, changing the dynamics which governed Roman society, an...
02 May
The Investiture Controversy: When Pope and Emperor Went To War
It was the second day that the King had knelt in the snow.
07 Apr
The Kyivan Rus’: Viking Outpost or Slavic State?
All states have their founding myths. France has the legendary King Charlemagne’s crowning as Em...
03 Mar
Who Were The Knights of Malta?
The Knights of Malta have a thousand faces. They were a peaceful hospital in Medieval Jerusalem, healin...
03 Jan
The Rise and Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate
Western, Anglocentric histories have too often lumped all of the vast complexity of the Middle East into the umbr...
20 Dec
When Did The Middle Ages Begin?
The question as to ‘when the Middle Ages began’ is a simple one on the surface. Everyone knows that the Middle Ag...
06 Dec
How Did The Islamic World Understand The Crusades?
Western accounts of the Crusades frequently see the Islamic Middle East as homogenous and barbaric, reproducing r...
