The Western Empire finally fell in the fifth century due to attacks from the Goths and the Huns. The Eastern Empire persisted ...

As Gothic hordes looted the capital that year ... assault towers to begin their attacks on walled cities. Below, a fifth-century wooden carving shows a relief of a city being defended from ...

We find, as far back as the fifth century, the custom of giving exhortations ... has six weeks of Advent; so has the Gothic or Mozarabic missal. As regards the Gallican liturgy, the fragments ...

That you hear many stories from the fourth and early fifth century, particularly, of aristocratic young women who decide they're not going to be obey their parents' command to marry. At this [time] ...

Glass blowing developed around 1st century BCE in Palestine. Although the art of stained glass did not reach its height until Europe's Gothic Era, we find written descriptions of it dating as far back ...

Black-and-white photographs reveal how the Japanese capital – and other travel hotspots – used to look Time, as the saying ...

The book contains in-depth discussions of all available textual evidence (including inscriptions and papyri), but also provides historical perspectives on every aspect of the post-fifth-century ...

An abandoned asylum in Ontario might be getting a new lease on life soon following years of neglect and deterioration.  The ...

There are plenty of underrated, yet equally impressive, fortresses around the world with their own unique charm and fascinating history.

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