Juana de Arco, el proceso contra la doncella ...

En la Edad Moderna, los feligreses aprovechaban la obligación de ir a misa para hacer negocios, relacionarse socialmente o incluso cortejar a las damas. 

Robos, homicidios y delitos sexuales se castigaban de forma a veces brutal, mediante amputaciones, la horca o la hoguera. 

Nos vamos a una fecha posterior a la ejecución de Juana de Arco, al 15 de julio de 1440. Hay una mujer, con cierto parecido a Juana de Arco, y dice ser ella. Se rumorea que la heroína jamás murió y que todo era un truco para conseguir la insignia de la Flor de Lis que le otorgó C ...  Show more

In the early 15th century, a French village girl became a heroine for her role in the French victory during the Lancastrian phase of the 100 Years War. But it took 600 years before Joan of Arc was canonised as a Roman Catholic Saint. How did she become such a famous name in histo ...  Show more

After Trajan ascended to the throne in 98 AD he fought two wars against the Dacians, finally annexing the country in 106 AD. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, times and influence of Eleanor of Aquitaine (c1122-1204) who was one of the most powerful women in Twelfth Century Europe, possibly in the entire Middle Ages. She inherited land from the Loire down to the Pyrenees, about a third of modern ...  Show more