Did King Arthur exist?
King Arthur, almost all of us have known since childhood. The Arturovsky cycle was a bestseller back in the Middle Ages, and in our time has become one of the cultic phenomena of mass culture. Some critics argue that the entire literature of the fantasy genre came just from the "Arturian". However, the reliability of the existence of Arthur as a separate historical personality has not yet been proved. Probably, the real prototype of Arthur had a different name, or it is a collective image of several prototypes.Why did the plague "mow" Europe?
In the history of the European plague pandemic, which literally "mowed" Europe in the Middle Ages, a lot of incomprehensible. So, wild rodents, whose ranges would have extended so far to the north, could not be established. There is no answer to the question as to why the pandemic of "black death" hit Europe in the same sequence and in the same territories, and for the same time as the first pandemic - the plague of Justinian (531-589)? How did its fires go on synchronously in very long areas of Europe, for example the plague epidemics in Moscow and London in the middle of the 17th century?