All posts tagged "European history"
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
July 25, 2026She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
Biography
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
July 24, 2026It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
July 17, 2026Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Fiction Reviews
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
July 14, 2026Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
July 12, 2026Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
June 24, 2026For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
June 13, 2026Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
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The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
June 1, 2026To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
May 25, 2026The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
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The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
May 20, 2026The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
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