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5 things you need to know about the discovery of what is possibly the world’s oldest Qur’an

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Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners

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Terror in Elizabethan England

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The perils of piety in Tudor England

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Medieval

In pictures: medieval stained glass

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Saladin, seen in a 12th-century portrait, led Muslim opposition to the crusaders and united much of the Middle East. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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How to lead like Saladin

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Q&A Did the druids have anything to do with Stonehenge?

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Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex

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

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Did the Great War kill God?

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A brief guide to the history of heresy

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The long history of the Crusades

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Q&A Were the pagan English gods the same as the Viking gods?

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