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Ink, Metal and Money — Member Dossier
Few technologies have a reputation as grand as printing with movable type. It is credited with the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the rise…
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Water, Wealth and Wrangling — Member Dossier
For a century and a half a group of seven small provinces on the North Sea, most of them partly below sea level, was one of the richest,…
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Stone into Light — Member Dossier
Our free article on Chartres Cathedral follows the rebuilding of a great Gothic church between 1194 and 1220, when the style was already a mature,…
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The Albigensian Crusade — Member Dossier
In the summer of 1209, an army carrying the crusading cross marched not toward Jerusalem but toward the walled towns of Languedoc, in the south of…
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Three Kingdoms, One Crown — Member Dossier
Our free articles on Tudor and Stuart Britain tend to follow the crown: the six wives, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the king who lost his head.
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The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople — Member Dossier
How a crusade aimed at Egypt ended by sacking the largest Christian city in the world. The debts, the diversions and the decisions of 1204, set out…
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The Trial of the Knights Templar — Member Dossier
The arrests of 1307, the confessions taken under torture, and the papal bull that dissolved the order in 1312 — reconstructed from the trial records…
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