European medieval history
Imposing Christianity on Europe’s last pagans
The heroic deeds of the Teutonic knights were once part of Germany’s foundational myth. Now the black cross is associated with the swastika and Hitlerian schemes of expansion
It seemed like the end of days: the eerie wasteland of 14th-century Europe
The Black Death combined with the Hundred Years’ War left the Continent a desolate world, full of terror and foreboding
