Blurb Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist. And Byzantine Empress of the Roman world. Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard’s apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary…
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the man who would come to be known as El Cid, the Campeador, started out from…
The Early Medieval era or The Dark Ages as it is more commonly known, is one my favourite eras and…
“When I was young and powerless, they saw fit to manipulate Parliament to achieve their selfish ends. Those days are…
Blurb A man lies under the tawny earth, hands still clutching the knife that killed him.Thorfinn Sigurdarson, Earl of all…
Blurb By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and…
When we think of the story of King Arthur—an English squire who pulls a sword from the stone to become…
Once I read about the tempestuous life of Richard II’s mother, I began to understand a bit more about his…
Looking for inspiration for this article, (in days that now seem far away, before the Covid-19 lock down), I ended…
Blurb In 1863, Civil War is raging in the United States. Victorine Meurent is posing nude, in Paris, for paintings…