Bestiaries – medieval books containing descriptions of real-life and imaginary animals, accompanied by moralising tales – ...

Tool of social control or check on tyranny? The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki crafts a history for the ...

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography by Ann Schmiesing brings folklore’s most famous double act out of the shadowy realm of legend ...

The idea of the cult represents the very core of the American Dream’ Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at ...

A battle of wills between Adolphe Sax and musical instrument makers in 19th-century France saw an unprecedented legal contest ...

The persecution began on 23 February 303. It was the feast of Terminus, the god of boundaries – chosen, Lactantius says, ‘so ...

The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular ...

Geoffrey Parker is Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History at the Ohio State ...

The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.

As Late Imperial China sought to rebuild as a modern state from the ashes of war, a new national post office was born.

The third vice-president of the United States was involved in two of the most sensational episodes in the America of his day. In a duel in 1804, when he was 48, he killed Alexander Hamilton, one of ...

John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg were brothers from a Seventh-day Adventist family in Battle Creek, Michigan. They had little education, because their parents expected Christ’s Second Coming ...