Punishment from on high

From miasma to miracles: how medieval medicine desperately battled the bubonic plague

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’

There were 13 men: unlucky for someone. They were dressed to kill – but so was everyone else. In what was essentially an army camp, crammed with armed men, the assailants blended right in. Moving casu

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

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors

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