In 1694, a lovelorn inquirer wrote to The Athenian Mercury, a periodical published by the English printer John Dunton, with a ...

In early modern Britain, neighbourly gossip was the backbone of a court system that turned moments of privacy into public ...

A 17th-century confessional at the Toulouse St. Stephen’s Cathedral. (Didier Descouens via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA) Similar confessionals appeared in Catholic churches over the following ...

Would you have qualified as a witch in the 17th century? Take this quiz and find ... James VI. A false confession brought about by torture sealed her fate: She was sentenced to death.

Originally a Dominican monastery constructed in the 17th century, it hovers over a cliff ... There's also a confessional booth for those who need to get something off their chest in private.

Not long after my partner and I exchanged our first “I love you”s, I made an embarrassing confession ... About half a century before Diderot’s Encyclopédie, and three centuries before ...