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The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which ...
On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the ...
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the ...
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of ...
'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent
A new friendship.
An unforgettable journey.
A beautiful and bloody history ...
Introduction to the world of the medieval knight, from training to tournaments. Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry ...
A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month
Two childhood companions, now matriarchs of two opposing ...
Byzantium. Was it Greek or Roman, familiar or hybrid, barbaric or civilised, Oriental or Western? In the late eleventh century Constantinople was the largest and ...
A gripping work of history in the tradition of Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers
In this highly original and gripping book Robert Gerwarth asks us ...
Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire ...
In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit ...
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the ...
Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history, covering themes as diverse as barbarian ...
