The Massacre of Latins: When Byzantium Turned on the West
In the spring of 1182, the greatest city in Christendom became the scene of one…
Secrets of the Harem: The Poisoned Brides
The world of Abbasid princesses and marriage politics was a dizzying maze of intrigue, ambition,…
Sweyn II Estridsson: The Warrior King who Fathered 5 Kings
The medieval history of Denmark is marked by a series of formidable monarchs. Among these,…
Java’s Lost Civilization: The Untold Story of the Mataram Empire’s Golden Age
The Hindu Mataram Kingdom, centered on the fertile plains of central Java , stands as…
An Admiral’s Betrayal and the Loss of Sicily
The history of the Mediterranean is a history of waves – of people, empires, and…
The Pope Who Sparked Europe’s Scientific Revolution
Pope Sylvester II, born Gerbert of Aurillac, stands out as a figure whose scientific curiosity…
Three Brothers, One Crown: A Royal Spanish Bloodbath
Alfonso VI of León and Castile (1040–1109) is remembered as one of medieval Spain’s most…
From Tribes to Kingdom: The Dramatic Founding of Serbia
The emergence of Serbia as a defined political and cultural entity in the early medieval…
What If: England Had Won the Hundred Years War
If England had won, not lost, the Hundred Years’ War, the trajectory of English, French,…
The Rise of the Mahdi
In 1121 CE, far to the western edge of the Islamic world, a new flame…
The Tsar Who Made Byzantium Tremble
Tsar Simeon the Great, ruler of Bulgaria from 893 to 927, was a figure of…
England Before England: How the Tribal Hidage Reveals a Fractured Past
The Tribal Hidage is a compelling relic of dark age England: a mysterious, fragmentary window into the…
How The Queen of Kent Quietly Changed England Forever
Queen Bertha of Kent stands as a crucial yet often understated figure in the story…
Aragon and Castile: Uneasy Neighbors
Introduction: Iberia in the 11th–12th Century The Iberian Peninsula in the early twelfth century was…
House of Wisdom: The World’s First Great Research Institute
The House of Wisdom in Baghdad, or Bayt al-Hikmah, was a legendary center for scholarship and intellectual exchange during…
