Woman of the Middle Ages We are quite well informed about some aspects of daily life in 14th century Florence and we know enough of the care that women of the time devoted to their beauty . The most vain, as always, were the ladies belonging to the middle-upper class, while the commoners, wh
Contrary to appearances, it is a very optimistic book. After all, this is a book about victory. About the victory of seven brave women against Adolf Hitler and the entire Third Reich. ”Says Anna Herbich about“ Girls of the Survivors ”. In an interview with Curiosities of History, the author tells ab
None of the Byzantine monarchs fires the imagination to such an extent, none has become a symbol of such a great career, from the lowest rungs of the social ladder to the imperial purple and a real influence on power. Who was Empress Theodora? Her face, known from the mosaic in St. Vitalis, is t
The smooth flow of goods allowed for the development of civilization. Today it is obvious to us that we pay for the goods we buy with money, but in the past, traders had to resort to more creative means. Money - as defined - is a recognized medium of economic exchange that has a specific univers