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What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle ...
This new title in this bestselling series relates 37 stories of shipwrecks, great discoveries, mysteries, and disappearances still thrilling adventure seekers. From the Atlantic to ...
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
"A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won ...
Women in the Tudor age are often overshadowed by their male counterparts. Even those of royalty were deemed inferior to males. Whilst women may have ...
Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth. "Paradises got off ...
The Battle of the Frigidus River, fought on 5 and 6 September 394 in what is now Slovenia, was a crucial clash between the Eastern ...
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
"This colorful biography of ...
'History', suggests Robert Gildea, 'is a battlefield.' Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still ...
The Wars of the Roses were fought in England from the mid-fifteenth century, as the supporters of Lancaster and York wrestled over control of the ...
The magnificent wonders of China, ancient and modern, revealed by an international team of leading scholars from Asia and the West.
China is the oldest ...
Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the ...
An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid's stories, translated into English for the first time ...
The disastrous reign of the Emperor Commodus, which saw a great expansion of the power of the emperor, eventually resulted in his asassination, but also ...
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen ...
An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy.
Occupying a hilltop site in the ...
