Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE), in his influential text, The Politics, wrote about different types of governments and state constitutions, as well as what he...
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
In this narrated video essay, we present the absolute cheesiest tale about Charlemagne (r. 768-814) that was recorded by the medieval monk and historian,...
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"The sectarians deafen one another with their noise and clamor, keep anxiety away with their screeching."
From Soren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling...
This painting, attributed to the Italian artist Antonio da Vendri (16th century), draws inspiration from the ancient Greek mythological tale of the Judgment of...
Bishop Pappolus succeeded to the bishopric of Langres around 572. His path to the appointment was an odd one—Bishop Tetricus of Langres (r. 539-572)...
This scene, from an ancient Egyptian funerary scroll housed in the Neues Museum of Berlin (and generously photographed by Gary Todd of WorldHistoryPics.com), depicts...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (c. 1859-1930)
"Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth."
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