The life and legacy of confucius

All aspects of China’s President Xi Jinping’s young home life were dictated by his father’s expectations

Edmund Stewart is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham

Statue of Spinoza near Amsterdam’s city hall ...

Soldier, politician, and traitor, Lü Bu became one of the most powerful figures in China

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa