The Roman Empire spanned from Spain to Jordan—and your living room. Romans expanded so much that their 2,500-mile empire takes nearly 10 hours to traverse by modern air travel. View the whole expanse from home, with Wondrium. […]
Veneration of the Virgin Mary owes largely to Pulcheria. In the 5th century CE, she revolutionized the Catholic Church and its practices. How did this Roman empress forever alter Catholicism? […]
Lorenzo de’ Medici felt that more importance should be given to the vernacular. Florentine language, Lorenzo believed, help effectively communicate the Renaissance complex ideas to the current audiences. […]
Debauchery was common among men in power. Machiavelli quotes Lorenzo as an exception. He saw Lorenzo maintaining a balance between his active social life with his serious political life. […]
Under Emperor Claudius’ rule, the Romans invaded Britain in 44 AD, and the Britons of the lowland south and east were quickly converted to a Roman way of life. […]
Based on evidence from Roman times, archaeologists have speculated that one of the reasons for the fall of Roman Britain was its economic collapse. […]
The accounts of Charlemagne’s life are at times biased as they give us Charlemagne’s side of the story. However, they do provide a lot of information about Charlemagne and his reign. […]
Charlemagne was much praised by his contemporaries. In fact, there is even a prize in his name for those who work toward the unification of the peoples of Europe. However, not everyone has shared the same opinion about the ‘father of Europe’.. […]
For more than 300 years, starting from 476, there had been a multitude of kings and kingdoms in Europe. All this changed when Charlemagne was crowned the emperor of western Europe in 800. […]
A significant size of the ancient Roman population was poor. The poor people generally had to work as unskilled workers. And, there were many beggars on the street. Yet, the empire provided quite a few cheap or free means of entertainment to them, like the public baths, amphitheaters, or chariot races. […]
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