A legend persistence wants that Louis XIV took only one bath during his lifetime… Nowadays, the Court of the Sun King is particularly decried for its deplorable hygiene . It is true that in the Middle Ages, we washed much more often than under the Ancien-Régime, a period which seems to show a regres
At the beginning of the 17th century, the situation in Castile, from where until then the men and taxes that Carlos I and Felipe II needed for their hegemonic and religious policy in Europe had come from, was no longer the same as that of the previous century. It was exhausted, bankrupt, overwhelm
The Roman calendar was made up of twelve months and 365 days, but the movement of the Earth around the Sun lasted a little longer (365.25 days). This gap had produced a delay of 90 days, so the seasons -very important for the harvests- danced. Julius Caesar brought the wise Sosigenes of his retreat
Today we have the collaboration of our friend Lacedemonia (author of the book «The Knight of the Dawn «). Foto: Eurisco While the world of Davintian code literature is struggling to find new formulas to find the Holy Grail , lets focus on one of the candidates, the one that according to many peop