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The Battle of Hohenfriedberg on June 4, 1745, oil on canvas by Carl Röchling, c. 1920. Depicted here are Prussian grenadiers surprising Saxon soldiers on the morning of the Battle of Hohenfriedberg (4 June 1745). Bundeswehr...

Allegory in Honour of the Publication of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, February 13, 1749, oil on canvas by Jacques Dumont, 1761. Carnavalet Museum, Paris.

Saint Cuthburga church in Wimborne Minster, photograph by Ethan Doyle White, England, 17 August, 2019. The church was originally founded by Princess Cuthburh of Wessex in 705. It was the burial site for King...

Three Early-Medieval silver coins of Anglo Saxon Kings, the Cambridgeshire County Council, c. 852-874. Three coins of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon rulers, King Aethelred of Wessex (r. 865-871...

King Aethelred of Wessex, miniature by unknown artist, included in Genealogical roll of the kings of England, London, c. 1300 - 1340. British Library, London

The Zulu Kingdom emerged in the early 19th century as a centralized and militarized state under Shaka Zulu (reign c. 1816–1828), whose reforms reshaped...

The pilgrimage of Cnut the Great (reign in England 1016–1035; Denmark 1018–1035; Norway 1028–1035) to Rome in 1027 illustrates the intersection of kingship...

In the end, the Viking ship was born through the successive joining of wood, iron, wool, tar, oil, and human labour. The trunk in the forest had become timber in the timber yard, a shell in the shipyard...

When the hull of a Viking ship had been fully closed, the caulking line was checked again, and weak or poorly seated overlaps were tightened. A good boat revealed itself not in the first assembly, but...

Even a small Viking boat required hundreds of rivets, while a large Viking longship needed thousands. Shipbuilding, therefore, depended not only on carpentry but also on important iron production and an active...