The birth hour of the modern age is marked by a severe illness of the European humanity: smallpox. This does not mean that the plague was the cause of the modern age, but rather the opposite: the "modern age" existed first, and it was through it that the plague arose. Every era creates its own diseases, just as its art,...
Basically, every era is immoral, and often immorality is nothing more than a higher, freer, and more complex form of morality. However, in the case of the Middle Ages, it can be said that they thoroughly surpassed the normal and lawful limits of immorality, which probably belong to humanity's constant foundations. Symptoms of a moral spasm...
Throughout his reign, Charles V was accompanied by incredible luck: he won battles against both internal and external enemies, including the Spanish and Dutch rebels, popes and heretics, German princes and Tunisian pirates, the French and English, Indians and Turks. Yet, these victories led to nothing of sufficient importance to be considered...
The Jesuit order is one of the most unique formations in world history: it united all the contradictions of the violent and witty, fanatical and sinful-criminal transitional era that gave birth to it and, in turn, shaped its very face.
Its founder, Ignatius of Loyola, was a phenomenon of the post-medieval period, a mix of a daring knight and...
The Jesuit order was characterized by an admirable ability: it could personalize each person's task according to their natural inclinations and abilities, and place everyone in the role where they could be most useful. This virtuoso technique of human resource management is the reason why vastly different opinions about the Jesuits have emerged...
The question arises: was this Catholic ruler somewhat insane? His son, Don Carlos, was undoubtedly so; as was his grandmother, Joanna, who was already labeled with the nickname "The Mad." In Philip, the specifically Habsburg psychosis took on a fully developed form.
