Middle Ages
Knight Tales: The 9 Greatest Knights of the Middle Ages
The knight in shining armor and the damsel in distress are two of the Middle Age’s most enduring clichés. Through…
The Real Countess Dracula: 12 Facts about the Life and Crimes of Elizabeth Bathory
According to the Guinness Book of Records, Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory was the most murderous woman in history. She is…
Back From the Dead: 8 Unbelievable Resurrections From History
Resurrections have often been little more than the stuff of legend. Throughout history, there have been numerous instances of people…
A Bloody Legacy: 12 Steps in the Evolution of Historic Terrorist Organizations
Terrorist groups that relied on violence to intimidate societies and governments in order to achieve political, ideological, or religious aims,…
Forget the Artists: The Top 8 Military Generals of the Renaissance
Most people learned about the Renaissance in school in the standard format that showed the greats in the arts like…
Terror on the Steppe: 12 Terrifying Nomadic Leaders of Eurasia
Mongols, Huns, Tatars and Turks: some of the nomadic inhabitants of the Eurasian Steppe who, for millennia, terrorized the civilized…
Historical Debacles: 12 Humiliating Military Defeats from Ancient Times to the Modern Era
de·ba·cle /dāˈbäk(ə)l,dəˈbäk(ə)l/ noun a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco. In most battles and wars, there are winners and losers.…
This 17th-Century British Village Became a Plague Quarantine
Eyam is a small town in Derbyshire, England, but those familiar with the history of the plague know it well.…
The Catholic Church’s Actions Might Have Contributed Greatly to the Black Death Plague
In the mid-1300s, there was an outbreak of plague so virulent that it killed between 75 and 200 million people…
3 Successes and 3 Failures of the Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman the Magnificent also spelled ‘Suleyman,' was the Ottoman Sultan from 1520 to 1566. Also known as ‘the Lawgiver,' he…