FACTS are stranger than HISTORICAL FICTION

IGNORANT STUDENTS AND GRADE INFLATION , c.1450. In the 15 th century, Antonino Pierozzi, Archbishop of Florence, listed these comp...

UNIVERSITY TEACHING IN THE MIDDLE AGES .   In 1215 the University of Paris published a list of rules for its lecturers: They mus...

STUDENTS AND THE JOB MARKET, c. 1500.   In the Middle Ages a career in the church was the best option for a young man without pr...

MAN GIVES BIRTH TO CHILD. Tabloid Stories, c. 1600 You thought tabloids were a modern invention? Read on. The Fugger Newsletter o...

THE MAFIA in 1592. Marco Sciarra, a robber baron from the Abruzzi , was the Don Corleone of his time.   The historian Sir Jam...