78. Les Cathares

Entre 1974 et 1988, en à peine quatorze ans, la France légalise l’avortement, abolit la peine de mort, passe à gauche pour la première fois, invente la cohabitation, libère les ondes, découvre le SIDA, invente la Fête de la musique, et voit monter un parti d’extrême droite à l’As ...  عرض المزيد

Le 25 avril 1974, une révolution pacifique au Portugal renverse la dictature salazariste en place depuis 48 ans. Des jeunes officiers, des fleurs comme symboles de paix, et un pays métamorphosé.Plongez dans les racines, les moments forts et l'impact durable de cette révolution de ...  عرض المزيد

Was the Catholic Church Europe’s first revolutionary group? How are the Cathars linked to the genesis of genocide? Where does the term crusade come from? Listen as Tom and Dominic discuss the real history around the mysterious group known as the Cathars. *The Rest Is History Liv ...  عرض المزيد

In the fourth century AD, the Christian faith exploded out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, converting the Emperor Constantine in the process. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion was deeply ingrained ...

The popes of Rome emerged from the humblest of beginnings. The first was a fisherman, charged with spreading the word of God under the watchful eye of a pagan Roman Empire. But just a few centuries later, the papacy had flourished into one of the wealthiest, most powerful inst ...

Christianity's inroads into the pagan north of England began with the marriage of Æthelburh of Kent to King Edwin of Northumbria. A condition of their marriage was Edwin's conversion to Christianity. But most of the things we know about this period come from the ...