Daniel Steuckers, mayor and director of the small Museum of History of the Belgian town of Osterloo , in the province of Flemish Brabant , discovered last summer a document in the archives of the City Council that has revolutionized the life of this town of two thousand five hundred inhabitants dedi
Willem van Ruysbroeck was a Franciscan monk, better known in Spain as Guillermo de Rubruquis, sent by the King of France as ambassador to the Great Khan. A few days ago we narrated the travels of Julianus, a Dominican who in the Middle Ages traveled through Eastern Europe in search of Magna Hungary
At the end of the Middle Ages, in 1486, appears Malleus Maleficarum , the first treatise on demonology. It is with the omnipresence of religion, and even of the Inquisition, that peoples distrust of the Evil One grows. At a time when everything is justified by the Bible and the word of the priests,
Charles Dickens, photographed in 1867 by Jeremia Gurney and London in the 19th century • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS / ISTOCKPHOTO No one better than Charles Dickens was able to capture the two facets of the London of his time. The bright side of the leap into modernity, and the dark side of child poverty