A factor certainly though France's failure to shift to a constitutional monarchy in the way the UK had by the late 18th century and Louis XVI's commitment to a largely absolute monarchy was… (View Post)

No, the Democrats won't want a presidential election loser to run again and at 77 he is too old anyway. They will want a younger candidate after 82 year old Biden and 60 year old Harris (View Post)

More like hundreds of thousands directly from the Crusades and half of them Crusaders. That is also ignoring the Ottoman invasions of Europe up to the sieges of Constantinople and Vienna and resultin… (View Post)

Most of the wars of conquest were actually invasions of England or France or amongst princely states for power and territory which would have happened anyway without the church. Yes it backed the cru… (View Post)

What a load of crap, nationalism, civil wars, Communism, Nazism, militant Islam, have done far worse. Most of our oldest universities, cathedrals and churches, many of our schools, hospitals, chariti… (View Post)