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'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking . . . concise and absorbing'
Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East
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A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age.
In 1346, a catastrophic ...
The miraculous story of Madrid-how a village became a great world city
For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under ...
A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of ...
"Fascinating." - The Wall Street Journal
"An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset." - Publishers Weekly
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a "real-life Game ...
The life and times of Catherine de' Medici, by renowned scholar of the Italian Renaissance Mary Hollingsworth. Catherine de' Medici lived her life at the ...
Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on ...
Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman ...
