Medieval (before 1500)

The Franconian Empire was the most significant development toward centralized government of the medieval period. In this early Reich, which included both Romanic and Germanic peoples, foundations were laid for the political, social and cultural evolution of Western Europe. This was particularly true of France and Germany. The significance of …

The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain, by Benzion Netanyahu. New York: Random House, 1995. Hardcover. 1390 pages. Illustrations. Source notes. Bibliography. Index. $50. Brian Chalmers is the pen name of a Roman Catholic priest who teaches at a major East coast university. It is nearly impossible to …

Until very recently, a map clearly predating Columbus’s first voyage of discovery was widely considered evidence that Norsemen had “discovered” North America first. In fact, at the time it came to light (that is, onto the market), it constituted the best, if not the only evidence of this notion; discovery …

Within the Anglosphere at least, Arthur Butz's 1976 The Hoax of the Twentieth Century was truly trailblazing, almost proto-revisionist insofar as comprehensive reviews of the subject in a single volume are concerned. While the book's performance in the (book) marketplace has waxed and waned, its recent removal, after at least two decades, from the vaunted offerings of Amazon.com finally subjects this classic work to true censorship. On the occasion of its entry into the Twenty-First Century's Index Librorum Prohibitorum, this article compares its fate with that of the work of a similarly precocious myth-buster of the Fifteenth Century that Butz himself adduced while placing his own work in historical perspective.