Caillan Davenport receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sometime in the 9th century AD, a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Fulda in modern Germany copied out an extensive Latin ...

Elizabeth I is better known for her high necklines and defeat of the Spanish Armada than as an avid intellectual, but an article published in the Review of English Studies adds a new translation to ...

The involvement of supernatural factors such as fate and fortune in historical events is a familiar preoccupation of ancient historians. In the case of Tacitus' Annals, however, the issue is ...

“To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be ...

Roman historian Tacitus' ancient manuscripts called Annals have surfaced online. They discuss the persecution of Christians and mention Jesus Christ. Tacitus references Jesus' crucifixion by Pontius ...

The Emperor Nero died on 9 June 68 CE. The Senate had passed the ancient equivalent of a vote of no-confidence; his staff and bodyguards were rapidly deserting him. The Emperor made for the ...

Roman historian Tacitus gave a powerful quote about empire, war, and peace. The quote explains how rulers sometimes destroy places but describe their actions as bringing order. His words criticize the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Sometime in the 9th century AD, a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Fulda in modern Germany copied out an extensive Latin history into Carolingian minuscule , a script ...