It was the 15th century, so it’s hard to know exactly ... What’s important about the bonfire isn’t that it happened, but that people actually handed over things to be burned in the midst ...

Archaeologists in the U.K. have found part of a rare 15th-century religious manuscript ... the Tower of London may be a self-portrait of the famous adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh.

In 15th-century Europe, the apocalypse weighed heavily on the minds of the people. Plagues were rampant. The once-great capital of the Roman empire, Constantinople, had fallen to the Turks.