12 Aug 2020 The Jester of God and Murderous Heretic of 14th-Century Italy By Roberto Volterri History & Tradition 0 "Penitenzàgite! (Do penance)", shouted Gherardo Segarelli, a young and eccentric peasant, with flaming, hallucinated eyes and a long beard, as he wandered barefoot, wrapped only in a cloak, in the streets of Parma, Italy in 1260. The period of... Read More
10 Aug 2020 The Bitter Battle of Bubat: Divorcing the Javanese and the Sundanese By MartiniF History & Tradition 0 The modern-day Java Island of Indonesia now boasts diverse ethnic and religious communities, but the island was once divided by the bitter Battle of Bubat, when a royal wedding turned into a blood bath. The island is traditionally dominated by two... Read More
07 Aug 2020 The Storied Past of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia By jim willis History & Tradition 0 On July 12, 2020, Pope Francis stood silently in a pulpit placed in the large window overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in Rome. He had just delivered the weekly Angelus prayer given each Sunday, which had lifted up those who work at... Read More
31 Jul 2020 Grandfathers of Alchemy, Forefathers Of Chemistry By ashley cowie History & Tradition 0 Alchemy is a word almost everyone has heard of, but few have ever committed more than a handful of hours trying to grasp what this heavily loaded symbolic word actually means, in its entirely. So often the interested are discouraged by the complex... Read More
29 Jul 2020 To Bee Or Not to Bee In The History Of Mankind By Roberto Volterri History & Tradition 1 “Sì come schiera d'ape, che s'infiora /as a host of bees, which blooms” said Dante Alighieri in Paradiso, XXXI, v.7The Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the mythology of the Maya, tells how the bee was born from an 'universal beehive' that... Read More