L'Arc de Trajan à Benevento

This chapter discusses how Trajan after his accession in 98 reconsolidated the imperial house. Trajan was from the Spanish province Baetica, his wife, Plotina, likely from Narbones...

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the Roman and Dacian fighting men who clashed in three bloody encounters during the Dacian Wars of AD 85–106. While the Roma...

When in Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine of France in 1154 A.D., he became at once the reigning sovereign over a vast stretch of land extending across all of Englan...

It began with voices—St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret speaking to an ordinary farmer's daughter. Inspired to aid the future King Charles VII, whose right to the throne ...

Abstract Political Voice examines the agency of marginalised people, emphasising the processes and strategies through which different communities around the world ar...

Abstract Retellings of the Buddha’s life story have animated and sustained Buddhist thought and practice through roughly 2,500 years of history. To this day, Buddhis...