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5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Dark Ages

The big questions of the Holocaust.

What religion was practised by the people of Lithuania before their conversion to Christianity in the 14th century?.

Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics.

Wolfson History Prizes: Nazi camps and St Augustine.

The ruins of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. Henry’s motives when dismantling such monasteries “were much more complex than pure revenge or pure avarice alone”, says Adam Morton. (Photo by Getty Images)

History explorer6 places to explore the dissolution of the monasteries.

The Dissolution and a forgotten colony.

c1754: Siege of a town led by Godefroy de Bouillon (c1060-1100) 1st Crusade (1095-1099), showing Saracens firing arrows at Crusaders as they attempt to scale the walls. From manuscript of Roman de Godefroy de Bouillon. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

5 things you (probably) didn't know about the Crusades

Muslims and Jews in the 16th century.

Vulcan caught Venus and Mars in a net and shows them to the laughing Gods. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Religion in ancient Rome: what did they believe?.

The tomb of the Crusader knight Richard de Crupes.

Books interview with Christopher Tyerman: "Religious war isn't an irrational act, and we shouldn't dismiss it as irrational".

Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners.

Terror in Elizabethan England.

The perils of piety in Tudor England.

In pictures: medieval stained glass

Saladin and suffragettes.

How to lead like Saladin.

Revellers at Stonehenge

General prehistory

Q&ADid the druids have anything to do with Stonehenge?

A statue of Aphrodite

Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex.

Living through the Crusades: 3 poems and songs that reveal how medieval people felt about the holy war.

First World War

Did the Great War kill God?

A mad is tied to a stake and burned alive as a crowd, including priests, look on

Heresy: a brief history

The long history of the Crusades.

Q&AWere the pagan English gods the same as the Viking gods?.

An illustration from the first edition of John Foxe The Book of Martyrs. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryElizabeth I’s war with England’s Catholics

Photo of a bishop's mitre

Q&AWhy are bishops called Pontiffs?

Photo of Clifford Tower in York

Q&AWhat was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

The LibraryD-Day for God?.

BBC History Magazine

Christians 'airbrushed women out of history'

A photograph of historian Sarah Foot at St Mary the Virgin Church

The LibraryHistory Explorer: the rise of English Christianity.