Sebastian Castellio penned one of the first arguments for religious freedom – but it went unheeded for centuries.
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Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world.
They battled scurvy, amputated limbs and treated deadly fevers, all while enduring the chaos of storms and warfare.
Women’s participation in warfare is not a recent phenomenon. Women played many roles in the Italian Wars, which engulfed Europe between 1494 and 1559.
At Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin masons received up to 15 pints a day as payment.
The first French novelist wrote about an adulterous affair and moved to Paris after separating from her husband.
Historical accounts of Martin Luther skew or ignore debates about religion and make him hardly recognizable as a pastor and preacher. But his theology changed Europe.
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