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Once he was firmly established as Sultan of Egypt in 1310 (after two previous reigns), al-Nasir Muhammad became more aggressive to his neig...

After the successful spread in the Low Countries of the simplified Christian lifestyle of laywomen called Beguines , a similar trend appeare...

Sometimes, zeal can backfire. The man who presided over the trial that created the first condemnation for witchcraft in Ireland went a littl...

When Pope John XXII became the target of an assassination attempt using poison and witchcraft, he decided that witchcraft should be labeled...

John XXII (pope from 1316 - 1334 in Avignon) had a lot of opinions, getting involved in politics all over Christendom, opposing the Francis...

We talked here about how women and Jewish women could be physicians in the Middle Ages, but it would be a mistake to think that there was n...

The Avignon Papacy, when the French Pope Clement V decided to move the papal headquarters from Rome to Avignon, was not a simple change in ...

Bérenger Fredoli was a Frenchman with a successful religious career. Little is known about his youth, except that he was born in Vérune a...

from Italian manuscript J. IV.115, an example of Ars Nova notation Beginning in the early 1300s there was a change in musical style, an...

Władysław the Elbow-high was honored with a 500-Złotych gold coin in 2013 You may remember the story of the Carolingian king Pepin the S...

Part 1 showed how Christian writers eventually came to the conclusion that the State was not the result of Man's sinful nature, and had ...

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