Then, the first act of revolt in 1524 would light the match that eventually sparked the Peasants’ War. Thomas Müntzer, a Protestant preacher in Allstedt, Germany, in the 1520s, rose to fame and gained ...

The term refers to each of the two-volume Bibles printed in Gutenberg’s workshop around 1454. Before that, all existing ...

After more than 10,000 years of use, the ancient cultures and indigenous communities who use plant medicines may hold lessons ...

some 350 have been recorded since its discovery in the 1520s. The pair's ill-fated journey which ended on the island had been ...

All this follows centuries of evoking the psalm in times of pestilence: “Whenever plague struck Protestant societies from the 1520s onward, we can dependably rely on an outpouring of sermons and ...

A pocket-sized book with a black cover printed in the 1520s is so fragile that librarians do not allow it to be displayed in ...

Every year between Tisha B’av and Rosh Hashanah, we read the Seven Haftarot of Consolation from Isaiah 40-61. The first ...

The Wolsey Rooms were originally built for Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief minister, when he owned Hampton Court in the 1520s. The story of the dynasty is told through rare 16th-century artworks ...

These Protestant ideas began to spread to England and Wales in the 1520s and started to influence many people. However, it was Henry VIII’s divorce crisis from 1529 that was the catalyst for the ...

Hampton Court Palace, which Henry VIII acquired in the 1520s and subsequently expanded, features the Grand Hall (with Anne Boleyn's coat of arms carved in the ceiling and antique tapestries on the ...

However, its past is not quite so grand and luxurious, as this tower is known as one of the most haunted spots in Essex. The Layer Marney Tower in Colchester is England's tallest original Tudor ...

She returned to England in the 1520s, and met Henry when she became a member of his court. Anne was witty and well educated. She did not hesitate to air her views, and publicly declared her ...