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What were the lives of women like throughout the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods? Modern archaeology is only just ...
They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.
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Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...
In the winter of 1386, a French noblewoman by the name of Marguerite de Carrouges found herself at the centre of a criminal case that electrified Paris, captivated the king and culminated in blood ...