Epic World History

Anti-Jewish Pogroms Jewry suffered a reversal of fate during the High Middle Ages that can only be compared to the destruction of Jerus...

Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas was born at Roccasecca, Italy, to Count Landulf and Countess Theodora. From early on, Thomas was dilig...

Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor of Aquitaine was born in 1122 to William X, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou, and Aenor, daughter of t...

Roger Bacon Known as doctor mirabilis (“wonderful teacher”), Roger Bacon was born to wealthy parents at Ilchester, Somersetshire, Englan...

Averroës statue in Cordoba, Spain Abu Al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd, Ibn Rushd for short, or Averroës, as he is known to the Wes...

Avignonese Papacy The Avignonese papacy (1304–78) and the Great Schism (1378–1414) are regarded as two of the most dramatic events in th...