Religion

An Aztec priest performing the sacrificial offering of a living human's heart to the war god Huitzilopochtli. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

General ancient history

Q&A How many people did the Aztecs sacrifice?

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Sunset over the causeway to St Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall, England (Getty Images)

9 places associated with the Prayer Book Rebellion . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Islam’s struggle with modernity podcast

Islam’s struggle with modernity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving showing the story of the Three Living and the Three Dead

Inside the medieval mind

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Catholics in Elizabethan England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the ninth century Pope Nicholas I decreed that St Peter’s symbol, the cockerel, should be displayed on all churches and many incorporated the design into weather vanes. Pictured here is the St Thomas church spire, Melbury Abbas in Dorset, United Kingdom. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

Q&A What does Jesus have to do with cockerel weather vanes?

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Britain’s Catholic emancipation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of men wearing togas assault Julius Caesar in this painting depicting his assassination.

Violence, rebellion and sexual exploitation: the darker side of Ancient Rome

A painting depicting the battle of the White Mountain

Europe’s apocalypse: the Thirty Years’ War

A scene from ’Othello’ by William Shakespeare, published in 1622. The play “seems to have been influenced by Anglo-Moroccan relations that reached their high point in the summer of 1600,” writes Brotton. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world

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Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess

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Living with the Gods . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Catherine Nixey and Edith Hall on the HistoryExtra podcast

Christianity and the classical world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.