Religion

What was there to fear from a medieval inquisition? For the inquisitors, quite a lot.

Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement by Cole M. Bunzel is groundbreaking and deserves to reach as wide an audience as possible.

On 14 June 1632, the Ethiopian Emperor Susenyos abdicated in favour of his son.

Zionism has been seen either as a movement of national liberation or as a form of settler colonialism. In reality, it is both.

The Archpriest Avvakum Petrov was burned in Pustozersk on 14 April 1682.

Soaring and swooping through a history of Catholicism, from 1789 to the present day.

Jean Calas was sentenced to be broken on the wheel in front of the cathedral in Toulouse, on 10 March 1762.

For 600 years Muslims held sway over the Indian subcontinent. Then democracy and a desultory leadership did them in.

Despite persecution, Catholics survived in Protestant England. For the authorities, they were a problem with a silver lining.

The medieval period was a golden age of saints and miracles, but they were met with a healthy dose of scepticism.