Comets, omens and fear: understanding plague in the Middle Ages
On August 30 2019, a comet from outside our solar system was observed by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Crimea. This was only
On August 30 2019, a comet from outside our solar system was observed by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Crimea. This was only
Today’s pick takes us back to the 15th century, when the engine of Western musical creativity was the Franco-Flemish School. A star of the set,
On Christmas Day, 1119, the king of Jerusalem, Baldwin II persuaded a group of French knights led by Hugh de Payne II to save their
Let me take you for a stroll down the high street of 12th-century Winchester – one of the great cities of medieval England – and
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