Who are the pagans?

Whether vestiges of paganism survived Europe’s Christianisation is a subject of enduring fascination. Scholarly debate navigates between the ‘maximalist’ position (much survived) and the ‘minimalist’

How Old Norse mythology endured in the Christian era

AFRICAN FOLKLORE

The story of some of the last peoples in Europe to embrace Christianity

Haunting family history: generations of Goodmans have experienced ...

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car