Pompeii. The life of a Roman Town
Unlike other works on the ruins of Pompeii, the originality of this essay lies in presenting the remains of the city on the basis of evidence it considers authentic, distancing itself from theories that...
History, Ancient, Medieval
The Plantagenet Empire 1154-1224
The marriage of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152 marked the birth of the Plantagenet empire, which stretched from Scotland to the Pyrenees and from Ireland to the Limousin. However, this...
The glory of the Medieval World
The Middle Ages, a time of darkness: that is the image we all retain of our secondary education.
For a long time, the builders of cathedrals have been labeled barbarians and the listeners of St....
Life in the Middle Ages
Taking medieval times as between the tenth and fifteenth century, the book attempts to show the transition from the Dark Ages to Modern England in villages and towns up and down the country. It highlights...
PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age
Pax Romana was considered to be the Golden Age of Roman rule across most of Europe and beyond. It covers the period from 68AD to the death of Hadrian in 138AD. Rome at the time ruled over a quarter of the...
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
An essay on the characteristics of culture and life in 15th century France, Burgundy and Flanders. Huzinga presents the "autumn" of the Middle Ages: conception of the world as something stable, taste for...
A Classical Education
The book is a summary of Greek and Roman classical culture. It is to be sipped, not read in one sitting. The jacket says: “What do you know about the classical world, besides Veni, vidi, vici? Where do...
The epic of the crusades
After publishing his monumental and prestigious History of the Crusades and the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, in three volumes, René Grousset wrote in 1936 this Epic of the Crusades, a synthesis for a...
Millennium
Tom Holland tackles the history of Europe which is split into factional kingdoms two centuries either side of the year 1000, the first millennium after Christ. His thesis is that the anarchy of the supposed...
Byzantium (I): The Early Centuries
This is the first of a trilogy that make up a popular history of the Byzantine Empire (300-1450 A.D.). The book, while not scholarly, is well written and informative and will hold the reader’s attention....