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The Greek fire

The secret weapon of the Byzantines

Shimoi Harukichi

The bold Japanese

Mutavit calceos

The social and ideological symbolism of footwear in the ancient world

The end of medieval heavy cavalry

The French defeat at the Battle of Pavia

From soldier of the King to soldier of the Nation

From the war between kings to the war between peoples

A medieval hospital that was born secular and became ecclesiastical

The vicissitudes of one of the first secular hospitals in medieval Milan

Nazism and pseudoscience

Ernst Schaefer's expedition to Tibet

The apparitions of the Devil in the abbey of St. Gall

The story of Notker, the monk who challenged the Tempter

Giovanni da Pian del Carpine

The first westerner at the court of the Great Khan