Article originally published in the 23rd issue of the Discover History magazine. Although one and the other ruled over territories much smaller than the current England and Spain and were not called that, Alfred of Wessex and Alfonso III of Asturias are two monarchs of capital importance in English
Historys role in politics is not only in ancient times when Euripides said the well-known OLBIUS IS THE KNOWER OF HISTORY, but always. To be a good politician, one must know History, because most problems have a historicity. Few are those that are solved. Most are repeated and have the same or almos
Outside legal language, it may be that “Alea iacta est ”, the phrase that Julius Caesar pronounced when crossing the Rubicon, the stream that marked the limit between Republican Rome and Cisalpine Gaul, and heading to Rome with his legions, is the most used Latin expression with the meaning of “ the
In the Catholic Church they are called relics to the bodies of saints, or to parts of their bodies, and to objects that may have belonged to or been in contact with them. The cult of relics can be traced back to the early years of Christianity, as a result of persecution and martyrs for the faith. A