The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down the barbarous masses that populated the rest of the world, and one of the ...

The West’s economies are kept rolling along by money from millions of individual investors, and in the postwar years most of it has come from the U.S.—a big factor in the drain of gold from American ...

Slave trade collapsed in medieval Western Europe following the emergence of sovereign monarchies, territorial states and their rule of law. In Russia, however, the rule of clans and a different ...

This post was updated June 5 at 3:00 p.m. From the captivating political intrigue to the unforeseeable twists, “A Song of Ice and Fire” has cemented itself as one of the most memorable works of ...

Some places feel straight out of a medieval legend—stone walls stretching into the distance, towers rising above the rooftops, and narrow lanes winding through centuries of history.. Carcassonne, the ...

Maurizio Ormas, Freedom and its roots. The establishment of human rights in the Church’s Pastoral from the origins to the sixteenth century, preface by R. Buttiglione Effatà, Cantalupa 2009, pp. 303.

Barbara Bramanti grew up near Florence, Italy, worked for a while in Mainz, Germany, and is now at the University of Oslo in Norway. Her career has taken her across a decent swath of Western ...