History has had it out for the tomato. One of the earliest-known European references to the food was made in 1544 by the Italian herbalist Pietro Andrea Mattioli, who first classified it as a ...

From this word came the Arabic zifr and hence the English “cipher.” By the Middle Ages, Europe’s demand for Eastern goods hadn’t diminished, but access to the Golden Road became ...

Barnett is joining PPF Group’s Central European Media Enterprises as its Prague-based CEO. CME runs 46 TV channels in six Central and Eastern European countries – Croatia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria ...

The abbey, founded in 1115 in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, was home to one of the largest monastic libraries in medieval Europe. Some 1,450 volumes of the abbey’s extensive corpus ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 7. The Middle Corridor will allow Europe to be independent of half of its gas and gasoline imports from Russia in the future, Secretary-General of Paneuropa Spain Carlos ...

The critical point was, again, the Middle Ages, and there you had an adversarial position between ... It was a different kind of situation from Europe, and again we come across this idea of ...

“Marco.” “Polo.” These are two words that travellers might expect to hear when lounging at hotel pools as children play the popular water tag game.

There is no doubt that in the Catholic Europe of the Middle Ages, monogamous marriage was ... had children or became celibate and joined the clergy. Any other sex acts such as masturbation ...

The most significant Jewish expulsions in medieval Christian Europe were often justified on religious grounds, with rulers enacting these policies under pressure from the Church, local clergy ...

Courtesy DAG. Bernard S Cohn makes the important point of contrasting the works of artists like Hodges and the Daniells with the overheated medieval European descriptions of the “Gentous” as ...