A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

Has there ever been such a creature as a distinctively English actor? In his impressively lively and ambitious study, Peter Ackroyd tries valiantly to suggest so. English actors, he says, tend to be ...

The longer answer requires a bit of background knowledge of European politics around the end of the first millennium, so if you’re ready we’ll take Hackaday into a rare tour of medieval history.