Today in Walking through History we are going to approach to the life of the elderly in Ancient Rome, a history in deep decline. As today, there were different ways of coping with this stage of life, which was undoubtedly given by a main aspect, their social status. Despite this, as we will see, the
By Rainer Sousa In the Late Middle Ages and in the Modern period, the Catholic Inquisition was an artifice used by the Church to oppose the people who threatened Catholic hegemony. Through processes, people were arrested, interrogated, punished and, in extreme cases, thrown to death at the stake. Fr
A salad is a round-shaped helmet, worn from the 15th century to the 16th century. The word comes from the Low-Latin caelum, which means sky, dome, and which gave the old Italian celata, Frenchified in salad. It is an evolution of the iron hat which took place during the first half of the 15th centur
Some time ago we published an article in which we told how the Spanish Isabel de Barreto was the first female admiral in history. In reality, there was at least one precedent that, yes, had the advantage of being queen over her and therefore the power to personally lead a squadron:Artemisia I, Caria