Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets What do Saladin, Thomas Becket, Henry Tudor, Joan of Arc, and William Wallace have in common? That all of them faced in one way or another the monarchs of the Plantagenet dynasty, which occupied the English throne for more than three hundred years (from 115
The names of the English months are actually all derived from Latin. The current calendar uses a calendar called the Gregorian calendar, but before that, the calendar called the Julian calendar was adopted. The Julius part of the Julian calendar is taken from Julius Caesar, or Julius Caesar in E
Egyptology , a scientific study of Egyptian civilization, was born in the 19th century, thanks to Bonapartes campaign in Egypt and the decoding of hieroglyphics by Champollion . Despite the general enthusiasm for the ancient East, knowledge of this culture is restricted to a small committee of schol
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In the entry dedicated to one of the main figures of the Wars of the Roses, the Earl of Warwick Richard Neville, The Kingmaker, we had pointed out the causes and main events of this conflict. The fundamental year in the development of this dynastic war was