Dictionnaire des châteaux et des fortifications du Moyen Age en France

Am 5. Oktober 2013 feierte der französische Philosoph Denis Diderot (1713–1784) seinen 300. Geburtstag. Der Aufklärer wurde als Gründer und neben d‘Alembert Mit...

There had been medieval specialist builders of fortifications, but in Renaissance Italy virtuoso military engineers were a response to the need to create new artillery-resistant fo...

When in Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine of France in 1154 A.D., he became at once the reigning sovereign over a vast stretch of land extending across all of Englan...

Gerontologists are often skeptical of age as a presumed cause of the aging process. Although age is an indispensable marker of life experiences, it is a rather crude indicator of t...

The Maginot Line was the last great gun-bearing line of subterranean forts built before World War II. Although it acquired an unjustified reputation as a white elephant, the Magino...