From the great barbarian conspiracy of 367 to Honorius's cold dismissal of Britain's final pleas, the province did not fall in a single moment but collapsed slowly, stripped of its legions, its ...

Medieval battlefield surgery was brutal, improvised, and often the only thing standing between a wounded soldier and death. The video explains how surgeons, barber surgeons, monks, blacksmiths, ...

The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem (commonly known as the Teutonic Order) is a military order that was founded in the Holy Land during the Crusades. The Teutonic ...

From Julius Caesar’s first landing on the shoreline of England in 55 BC to the famous ‘Look to their own defences’ letter of AD 410, the Romans played an important part in British history for over 400 ...

In the time of Ancient Rome, the Port of Ravenna was known as Classe, which comes from the Latin classis, meaning fleet. Located to the south and east of the city of Ravenna itself, it was an ...

What follows is a letter from one Pope Hildebrand, a claimant whom I have been investigating according to strictly legal principles. Yes, issues of heresy inside the Church would be enough, but if no ...

As the Roman Empire declined its leaders became interested more in personal survival than good governance. Adrian Goldsworthy draws comparisons with current crises. People like having someone to blame ...