Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless of spiritual or temporal allegiances.

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Fifty years after the Bristol bus boycott, BBC Inside Out looks back at the racist policies that stopped black people from working on the buses.

Stokes hit 11 fours and 8 sixes in total, leading England to their highest fourth-innings run chase in Test cricket. That it came in the same match as a 67 all-out by his team is a testament to ...

There are some things in them (Epistles of St. Paul) hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 2 Peter 3:16 ...

Believe it or not, beheading was deemed as one of the most honourable and least painful way to be executed in the Middle Ages. If a sharp enough axe was used, a person could be decapitated with one ...

Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages is a book of essays, research papers and preliminary findings. Georges Duby’s tone is tentative and scholarly. His chosen period of study does not throw up many ...

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