Great fears of the past. Volkov A.V.

In the distant past, when an epidemic broke out in a particular European country, the distributors of the infection considered strangers, people of a different faith. Measures to protect against the epidemic often came down to the persecution of Jews. Since ancient times, there has been a legend that Jews have been using the blood of baptized babies to perform ceremonies during their holidays.

In the story, Richard III entered as a cruel, hated tyrant. However, modern researchers offer to look differently at one of the most famous kings of England. Over the years of the reign of Henry VIII, England has changed beyond recognition. Where it was impossible to succeed openly, this king resorted to the cunning inherent in his soul from birth. The “worst Englishman of the XVII century” was called the Titus of OUTS. Who is he?

"Spanophobia" began to spread in Europe on the eve of the Reformation era and finally took shape on the time of protracted wars between Protestant states and Catholic Spain in the 16th century, but the term itself appeared recently - a little more than a hundred years back. Opponents of the Spaniards accused them of mass crimes against the indigenous population of America, while the same crimes committed later by the British in North America, or the British, the French and Belgians in Africa, were simply hushed up.

the eve of the French Revolution, historians It has long been called the time of "great fear." The panic, then covering France then, for a long time changed the course of world history. It was no longer possible to live as before.