Jerusalem has long held a prominent position in world history as a crossroads of faith, culture, and conflict. In the Byzantine era, which spanned from the 4th to the 7th centuries AD, Jerusalem reached a new status as a major Christian pilgrimage site. Under Byzantine rule, the city transformed with the construction of monumental churches, including the famed Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Byzantines invested in Jerusalem as a spiritual and administrative hub, yet its significance also attracted military and political challenges. This article examines Jerusalem’s role within the Byzantine Empire, the development of Christian pilgrimage, a

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In the third volume of this superb trilogy exploring the lives of women taken captive in the Trojan War, a new narrator takes us on a journey back to Agamemnon’s palace.

Hundreds of years ago the highlands of Scotland and Ireland were dotted with a type of dwelling called blackhouses. These were long narrow buildings, often laid in parallel to other blackhouses, with dry-stone walls and thatched roofs rendered black with soot.

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One of my favourite clips about some of my favourite experiences. Sort of.

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The Waterboys

Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond to present-day England, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were eradicated between 1064 and 1526. Most studies of ethnoreligious violence in Europe focus on communal, regional, and national political dynamics to explain its outbreak and variation. Recent scholarship shows how the Catholic Church in medieval Europe contributed to the long-term political development and the “rise of the West.”

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