General Origin of heraldry At the end of the 12th century, at the time of the Crusades, precise and until then immutable laws governed the principles which the science of the coat of arms, called “Heraldry”, must obey. It is now certain that the origin of coats of arms, in this form, dates back to
The centuries go by, the writings remain. Books, both works of art and boxes of secrets, become precious testimonies of the past. Thus the exceptional old collections of the Media Library of Troyes scroll through the rich history of the city and its region. An invaluable fund Most of these paper
In 1040, Bulgaria was a province of the Byzantine Empire, after its subjugation by Vasilios Bulgarokdonos. However, this year the noble Petros Deleanos, who had, in theory, become Hellenized, left Constantinople and fled to Belgrade, from where he declared a revolution against the empire, proclaimin
We have already discussed female prostitution in ancient times when we detailed the different classes of prostitutes in Sumeria and prostitution in Rome. So, today we are going to deal with male prostitution in these same cultures. In Rome the important thing was not who you slept with, but the rol