Lastly, another important myth tells of Odin’s theft of the “mead of poetry”. This substance was created by two dwarves from ...

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

Lastly, another important myth tells of Odin’s theft of the “mead of poetry”. This substance was created by two dwarves from ...

Plato and the allegory of the Ring of Gyges may have had a surprising influence on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Working in London, producer Adrian Corker, percussionist George Barton, and Japanese singer Tujiko Noriko came up with a new ...

In 1896, with the revival of the Olympic Games, James Brendan Connolly, the son of immigrants from the Aran islands, became ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A new, old specter is haunting the world: the bloodthirsty Anglo-Saxons. Well, that is what the Kremlin wants the world to believe. Take the new Russian state-backed film “Tolerance ...

In this video, History Hit duo Louee Dessent and Luke Tomes join the Swords of Penda re-enactment group - volunteers who bring the 7th century to life through painstaking research and experimental ...

The Staffordshire Hoard is back on display as Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery completes another phase of its reopening. Visitors will have unrestricted access to the Anglo-Saxon treasure for the first ...

L etters of G amaliel B radford (1918-1931), edited and with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Interesting letters, mainly literary, many of them to New Englanders, which supplement Bradford’s ...