Key points Empires and political unions that once controlled vast territories across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas ...

During the eighth or ninth century, someone fabricated a document recounting how Emperor Constantine had given land to Pope ...

The basilica was originally a chapel designed by St. Helena to hold the relics of the True Cross found on Calvary. The chapel ...

In Leavenworth, a Washington mountain town remade in the image of Bavaria, alphorns echo amid the Cascades and beer gardens ...

“It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God,” said the martyr St. Cyprian of Carthage. “It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.” Kevin Di Camillo, April 16, ...

Addressing the community of the Pontifical Teutonic College of Santa Maria in Campo Santo on its 150th anniversary, Pope Leo ...

When people tell you that certain regions of Ukraine are "naturally" Russian-speaking, they are parroting the result of a ...

The Jewish Museum’s exhibition from St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague displays both superb Christian and Jewish objects never ...

About Raimondo, Prince Montecuccoli. Raimondo Montecuccoli was an Italian-born professional soldier, military theorist, and diplomat, who served the Habsburg monarchy. His militar ...

Yet this was part of how a Chinese historian described Da Qin — a mysterious western power that scholars generally identify ...

What if you could control a nation like this in a historical game?Rule Spain. Rule the Netherlands. Rule Southern Italy.

IntroductionWhen opening history books or works on the history of ideas from the modern era onwards, one notices that ...