When the first king of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VII, invaded England in 1485 to dethrone King Richard III after defeating him at the Battle of Bosworth and seize the crown, he did so as a representative of the House of Lancaster, one of the two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty contending in the c
The story of the life and death of Saint Adalbert has survived to our times in an unusual form - it was presented on the Gniezno Doors. To this day, it is not known who commissioned their implementation and by whom they were made. However, despite some ambiguities, this unique monument of culture, u
The Historical Snooper and women in Greece Our collaboration continues with El Fisgón Histórico, illustrator of Harald, the last Viking from the comic history collection Historietas, this time with a look at the life of women in classical Greece, a topic to which we dedicate the latest issue of Arc
Sometimes we tend to idealize everything that comes from the East. Without going any further, in Western eyes the figure of the samurai is usually surrounded by a halo of mysticism that has little to do with reality. We think they were honorable, spiritual warriors with high moral principles, but wh