Sunny, out-of-the-way Languedoc stretches from the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees in southwest France. It shares a balmy ...
The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...
Swathes of Spain and Portugal spent centuries in Muslim hands as Al-Andalus, while paganism thrived in northeast Europe well ...
In the riverside town of Vidin in Bulgaria, I was briefly king of the castle. I had the medieval citadel to myself. Looming over the Danube, the fortress was known for centuries as the guardhouse to ...
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In the 13th century, thousands in France were investigated, massacred, or even burned at the stake by the Catholic Church.
As long as we live in a world where people are persecuted for perceived differences, memorialising accused witches will ...
Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?
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