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In this episode, Kings and Generals explores the complex decline of feudalism in Europe. From the rise of centralized monarchies and the growth of towns to major events like the Black Death, we ...
In his diary this week, BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell reflects on the European Union's political system, and compares it to a kingdom of the early Middle Ages, with royals, barons and commoners vying ...
Europe's final feudal state became a full democracy yesterday as inhabitants of Sark headed to the polls to create the island's first wholly elected government, after months of rancorous ...
America’s birth represented a dramatic break from the past. Save for a few vestiges of the old European feudal order, mostly in the plantation economy of the Deep South, there was no hereditary ...
The pyramid in Tirana, Albania, was originally built as a shrine to the country’s late communist dictator, Enver Hoxha. Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times ...
Of course, the Covid-19 pandemic is nowhere near as deadly as the Black Death, which killed millions of people across Europe.
BETTER a bossy feudal master than no master at all. That, roughly, is what the voters of Liechtenstein, a tiny principality sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria, decided on March 16th when ...