Castles A Very Peculiar History With Added Dungeons

The castle was far more than a walled and turreted fortress; it was an instrument of social control and the symbol of power, authority, and wealth. Acknowledged expert Marilyn Stok...

In Chapter 1, the Reformation is presented as the paradigmatic site of Gothic escape: the evil monastery can be traced back to Wycliffe’s ‘Cain’s castles’ and the fictional abbey r...

A Cultural History of Western Empires presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural ...

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Every school and public library should update its resources on the history of Israel with this engagingly written and succinct narrative history from biblical times through 1997. T...

Abstract John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving it in the face of civil wars and invasions. ...

While we now recognize that MS is a common neurological disease, as late as the early twentieth century it was considered a relatively rare condition in Europe and the United State...