What was the role and life of women in the Middle Ages within medieval society? Their existence varied according to age and social status, their place within the family, their role in the couple, ...

In the Middle Ages, the imaginary is an integral part of reality. The world of that time cannot be conceived otherwise. Within this panorama, both real and wonderful, plants play a major role in ...

The Combat of the Thirty is a marginal episode of the War of the Breton Succession (1341–1365) that took place in March 1351 in the territory of the present commune of Guillac (Morbihan), located ...

The lesser evil, or the lesser of two evils, is an ethical principle that justifies choosing one evil in order to avoid a greater evil. The condition of the principle is that of a strictly binary ...

Hippias’s philosophical ideas laid the foundation for the emergence and further development of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism. Hippias is classified among the “older sophists,” whose names are ...

Kalasiris was a thin, form-fitting dress made of nearly transparent linen that was worn by women in ancient Egypt, both in the court and among the upper class, as well as by farmers and artisans. The ...

The Nemes is the most iconic headdress of the pharaohs, worn from the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic period. It is well-known to the public through numerous representations, notably the golden funerary ...

The Ennead (known in Egyptian as pesedjet, Greek Εννεάδα – Ennead) is a concept in ancient Egyptian mythology and theology developed in the significant religious center of Heliopolis in Lower Egypt.

The term “Man in the Moon” is a common reference to a pareidolic figure resembling a human face, which is easily visible on the surface of the Moon from Earth, especially during the full moon, ...

Orco was the god of the Underworld in early Roman mythology. Similar to Hades, the name of the god was also used to refer to the Underworld itself. In tradition, his figure was also associated with ...

“All the Elves who fell into the hands of Melkor were imprisoned in Utumno before it was destroyed, and through slow and cruel arts, they were corrupted and made slaves; and thus Melkor generated the ...

Cicero’s “De divinatione” (44 BCE), which rejects astrology and other supposedly divinatory techniques, serves as a rich historical source for understanding the conception of scientificity in ...