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The perils of piety in Tudor England

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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)

How to lead like Saladin

Revellers at Stonehenge

General prehistory

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

A statue of Aphrodite

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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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

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The long history of the Crusades . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1987: Sweden, Gotland, Detail of stone relief representing the divine triad: Odin (chief god), Thor (god of thunder) and Freyr (god of fertility). (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Q&A Were 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 Library Elizabeth I’s war with England’s Catholics

Photo of a bishop's mitre

Q&A Why are bishops called Pontiffs?

Photo of Clifford Tower in York

Q&A What was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

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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 Library D-Day for God? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.