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Despite defeating his opponent Pompeius Magnus at Pharsalus, and the latter's subsequent murder, Caesar still faced a determined opposition in the Civil War that ...
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 Battle of the Frigidus River, fought on 5 and 6 September 394 in what is now Slovenia, was a crucial clash between the Eastern ...
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 ...
Witchcraft! Just the mention of the name is enough to cause fear, even terror, in the minds and hearts of many people. But that is ...
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 ...
Gruesome but not gratuitous, this decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers some forty-five 'events' from the Tudor reign, taking in ...
Katheryn Parr is mainly remembered today as being the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, the one who 'survived'. Katheryn was not only a wife ...
Edward II is one of the most unsuccessful and unconventional kings in English history, and is well-known for having passionate and probably intimate relationships with ...
'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 disastrous reign of the Emperor Commodus, which saw a great expansion of the power of the emperor, eventually resulted in his asassination, but also ...
When we think of kings and queens, we conjure up illusions of a magnificent kingdom where His and Her Majesties live in the lap of ...
Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'.
It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke ...
As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew ...
Winner, The Lionel Gelber PrizeSilver Medal, Arthur Ross Book AwardFor decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would ...
