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Ascending to the throne in 1413, King Henry V of the Lancaster dynasty was the man behind the Battle of Agincourt. Being particularly bellicose, he found a pretext to land in France: he demanded ...

In the Middle Ages, the imaginary is an integral part of reality. The world of that time cannot be conceived otherwise. Within this panorama, both real and wonderful, plants play a major role in ...

During the Gallic era, the Aedui were a Celtic people who occupied the region of present-day Burgundy, with Bibracte, located on Mount Beuvray, as their capital. The mention of “our ancestors, the ...

125-121 BC: Rome’s legions, led by consul Fluvius Flaccus, intervene in Gaul for the first time in 125 BC, in what is now Provence. They defeat the local Gaulish peoples: the Ligurians, Salyens, and ...

The First White Terror during the French Revolution was a violent anti-Jacobin reaction during the Thermidorian Reaction (1794–1795). After Robespierre’s fall on ...

In Hans Baldung Grien’s engraving, we see familiar figures: the infant Jesus, the Virgin Mary, her mother St. Anne, and St. Joseph, Mary’s husband. Yet, something strange is happening. Mary is holding ...

Garden hermits, also known as ornamental hermits, were recluses who inhabited English landscape parks during the 18th and 19th centuries and entered into employment relationships. Garden hermits lived ...

A Morton’s Fork is a type of false dilemma where contradictory observations lead to the same conclusion. It’s said to have originated with tax collection by John Morton. The first known use of the ...

Kalasiris was a thin, form-fitting dress made of nearly transparent linen that was worn by women in ancient Egypt, both in the court and among the upper class, as well as by farmers and artisans. The ...

The Nemes is the most iconic headdress of the pharaohs, worn from the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic period. It is well-known to the public through numerous representations, notably the golden funerary ...

Belphegor, also written as Belfegor and Balphegor, (Hebrew: בַּעַל-פְּעוֹר baʿal-pəʿōr – Lord, or Baal, of Pe’or, or of the opening) is the name of a demon in Jewish and Christian tradition.