If you live in or travel to the United States, tipping is not just common—it’s often expected when dining at a restaurant.

Sometimes if you were an ambassador, you would travel around Europe with a trumpeter ... In England we still have serfs or "villeins", who were a medieval feudal hangover. If you were the lord ...

A democratically elected, convicted felon for president; a neutered Supreme Court; a rubber-stamp Congress; a normalizing, compliant media and business community: What else can go wrong? Chaos, Anyone ...

She argues in her monumental new book Islamesque (2024) that in early medieval Europe the world of construction and decorative crafts was “dominated by Muslims”. The claim might sound absurd ...

Recent finds uncovered by metal detecting efforts near the hamlet of Hezingen in the Netherlands, however, prompted ...

Historian Diana Darke argues in “Islamesque” that Europe’s monuments owe a vast debt to Muslim craftsmen and designers.

In the heart of Somerset lies the smallest city, home to the oldest medieval street in Europe. Vicars’ Close, located next to Wells Cathedral, is regarded as the only fully-preserved medieval ...

The outlook was no better on the international stage. No sooner had Maria Theresa assumed the throne than Frederick the Great ...

Roaming the ruins allows visitors to reconnect with Europe's rich and complex history. One such place is the abandoned medieval town-fortress of Cherven in Bulgaria. Located about 30 kilometres ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it." While it is well known that Islamic textiles were present in late medieval European churches, surviving fragments are ...