Historian, winner of the Enlightener Prize in the Humanities nomination, Sergey Zotov has been doing scientific research in Spain, Germany, and now works in the UK . Despite his rather young age, he has already written three full-fledged books on the Middle Ages, another edition is being prepared for publication.
In ancient China there was even an official position - the manager of dragons . Foreigners who visited the territories of modern Lithuania and Russia in the Middle Ages wrote about creatures that looked like large lizards, which were worshiped by the local population .
The New Medieval fun is built on the paradoxes of medieval scholars, writes David Frum . Medievalists studying this period note many things that seem paradoxical to modern man, he says . Frum: The public in social networks is essentially trying to return to our lives the ease with which our ancestors treated the sacred .
Eyewitness accounts, travelers' notes, reports, letters, protocols on clay tablets, papyrus, bark, parchment and paper. It would seem that we can learn a lot about what happened, but history textbooks are constantly being rewritten, and it is not only about pleasing the authorities. Historians themselves are not always sure that the information obtained from ancient documents objectively reflect what happened.