"Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi?" ("You too, Brutus, my son?") On March 15, 44 BC, the Ides of March, Julius Caesar is assassinated in the Roman Senate by a group of conspirators. The phrase he allegedly…
March 14 marks Pi Day, the annual celebration of the mathematical sign and number π. In mathematics, as most know, the symbol is used to represent the constant that links together the circumference and the diameter of…
On March 12, 1088, Pope Urban II was elected by acclamation at a small council in Terracina. Urban, born Eudes around 1042, was from a noble family living near Châtillon-sur-Marne. As a boy, Eudes studied in Reims,…
"Red rose", illumination from a collection of motets, ms. Royal 11 E XI, f. 3r, 1516, British Library, London. The illumination above consists of a circular staff in contra-tenor enclosing a rose. The page belongs…
Today, March 2, marks the anniversary of the assassination of Charles the Good, who was Count of Flanders from 1119 until the year of his death. The only male son of King Canute IV, later…
March 1 was, in the pre-Julian calendar, the first day of the Roman year. On this day, moreover, Roman religion celebrated Matronalia (or Matronales Feriae), a festival dedicated to Roman matrons. According to tradition, the festival…
On February 27, 425 AD, the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II, at the urging of his wife, Aelia Eudocia, founded the University of Constantinople under the name of Pandidakterion. The school welcomed 31 teachers for law, philosophy,…
On the occasion of the intense cold snap that has been keeping Europe in its grip in the past few days, Folia Magazine presents today a peculiarly suited illumination. "February", illumination from "Les Très Riches…