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Ancient history
Medici Money
By Tim Parks
Paperback
Published 06-Apr-2006
| RRP: | £8.99 |
| Our price: | £7.19 |
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The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power is derived from the family bank. This book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank.
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For Honour and Fame
By Nigel Saul
Hardback
Published 09-Jun-2011
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Structured around the related themes of war, politics and knighthood, this book tells the story of England from the Norman Conquest to the aftermath of Henry VII's triumph at Bosworth in the Wars of the Roses. It treats chivalry as part of the wider history of medieval England.
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Elegies
By Tibullus
Paperback
Published 12-Jan-2012
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Tibullus was one of the great Roman elegists, alongside Ovid and Propertius. His poems of love, addressed to his mistresses Delia and Nemesis and the boy Marathus portray idealism, anguish, and betrayal, newly translated into stylish English by A. M. Juster, with parallel Latin text, introduction, and notes by Tibullus scholar Robert Maltby.
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Fall of Carthage
By Adrian Goldsworthy
Paperback
Published 09-Oct-2003
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The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage.
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Hundred Years War
By Jonathan Sumption
Paperback
Published 18-Aug-2001
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This second volume on the Hundred Years War traces Edward III's increasing domination of France, from the fall of Calais in 1347 up to 1369. The period is dominated by a succession of crises in French affairs of state; crises that brought it to the verge of ruin.
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Cities of Roman Africa
By Gareth Sears
Paperback
Published 22-Mar-2011
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The Roman province of Africa was one of richest in the Empire and as a result has some of the most spectacular remains. This title examines the development of urban space and cultural life in this province from the beginnings of Roman rule in the second century BC to the fall of the province of Africa to the Vandals in AD 439.
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
By Edward Gibbon
Paperback
Published 24-Sep-1997
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Published between 1776 and 1788, this text is acknowledged as a masterpiece of English historical writing. Covering the history of Europe from the 2nd-century AD, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, this edition includes footnotes, explanatory comments, and a precis of the chapters not included.
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Last Kingdom
By Bernard Cornwell
Paperback
Published 03-Oct-2005
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The first book in a brand new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred.
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Muhammad
By Karen Armstrong
Paperback
Published 03-Dec-2001
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A life of the prophet Muhammad by best-selling religious writer Karen Armstrong
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Plantagenets
By Derek Wilson
Hardback
Published 01-Sep-2011
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A lavishly illustrated chronicle of England's longest-lasting royal dynasty.
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