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Louis-Charles de France (Louis XVII of France) and his jailor, the cobbler Antoine Simon; later royalist writers told of the abuses inflicted by Simon. Engraving by Yan' Dargent, from Histoire de la Révolution by Adolphe...

Louis XVII of France was the regnal name of Louis-Charles de France (l. 1785-1795), the younger son of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) and Queen Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793). Although Louis-Charles never actually...

Simon Reeve begins in Istanbul, Turkey, a busy medieval staging post for pilgrims to the Holy Land. Before falling to the Ottoman Empire, it was the centre of Roman Christianity under Emperor...

Saint Peter and Simon Magus, tempera on wood by Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1420-1497). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Ancient World VR by Lithodomos is a new website that allows you to explore 22 guided virtual sites! These sites are reconstructed sites, both popular and less known from the Ancient World, Renaissance...

The Albigensian Crusade (aka Cathars' Crusade, 1209-1229 CE), was the first crusade to specifically target heretic Christians - the Cathars of southern France. Not successful in repressing the heresy, the on-off campaigns over...

The Zealots were a group of Jews who began to emerge as a religious/political movement around the beginning of the 1st century CE. They strongly opposed Roman rule and turned on everyone, including other Jews, who cooperated with Rome...

The Monroe Doctrine, a significant piece of United States foreign policy, was first articulated by President James Monroe in 1823, and it essentially warns the powers of Europe from meddling...

A documentary on the history of pilgrimage.

The Guayaquil Conference, an 1822 meeting between libertadors José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar in Guayaquil, Ecuador to discuss the future of an independent Peru and an independent South America, painted by J. Collignon...