Unexpected consequences: expulsion and flight in fifteenth-century Europe.
Unexpected consequences: expulsion and flight in fifteenth-century Europe. We live in an age of enforced migration, as war, ethnic cleansing and religious conflict force vast numbers of innocent people to leave their homes and livelihoods and face an uncertain future. In the 1420s the populations of certain parts of […]
Seeing double: Pope John XXIII – Baldassare Cossa
Seeing double: Pope John XXIII – Baldassare Cossa – For anyone familiar with the history of the fifteenth century, Sunday’s (27th April 2014) canonization of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, or John XXIII, was somewhat surreal. For he was not the first pope to bear that name and number. Between 1410 and 1415 another Italian, Baldassare Cossa, […]
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