Medieval (before 1500)

Medieval topics from ca. 800 AD to ca. 1500 AD

Poland’s Stake in the Holocaust

We reproduce here, with the author’s permission, the preface contained in Carlo Mattogno’s most-recent book Mis-Chronicling Auschwitz (Castle Hill Publishers, Dallastown. Penn., August 2022; see the book announcement in this issue of Inconvenient History). In this book, Mattogno scrutinizes one of the most-important books ever published by the orthodoxy on the infamous Auschwitz Camp: Danuta…

Myths and Their Murderers: Lorenzo Valla and Arthur Butz

Throughout the Middle Ages and well into the Renaissance, respectable opinion held that Emperor Constantine had, sometime early in the Fourth Century AD, given his sovereignty over Rome and much of Italy to the Christian Pope of his day, Sylvanus, with the intent that this sovereignty should devolve, as time went on, to pope after…

Perfect Revisionism: The Vinland Map

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 and dating of Norse settlements…

The ‘Jewish Question’ in 15th and 16th Century Spain

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 dig into any chapter of…

The Significance of the Treaty of Verdun and the Emergence of the German Reich

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 impulses emanating from this early…

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