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Daughters of the formidable Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine and Juana were born in to a world of privilege and luxury that came at ...
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed ...
No country embodied the turbulence of twentieth century Europe more dramatically than East Prussia. The scene of Stalin's 'terrible revenge', it was carved up ...
'Toweringly ambitious, virtually flawlessly realized, a masterpiece and, without doubt, my book of the year' John Harding, Daily Mail
And the Land Lay Still is ...
This is a revealing, in-depth biography of the mysterious and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile made him an object of intense fascination ...
Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries ...
This book traces the papal line down the centuries from St Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means historically) the first pope - to the present ...
A succinct guide to Aboriginal art that outlines the history and cultural significance of Indigenous rock painting, bark painting, carvings and sculpture and the 'modern ...
Thanks in part to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. The image of the king leading his army against the French ...
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both ...
Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War ...
From Joan of Arc to ordinary servants, a unique collection of female voices from the Middle Ages
'Woman, who is equal to the moon in ...