All posts tagged "European history"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
March 18, 2025Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
History
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Italy
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
February 16, 2025Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
February 3, 2025To 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
January 26, 2025The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
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