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For a thousand years, Byzantium was a byword for imperial power, gold and international trade. This extraordinary but now little known empire ... More

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In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital ... More

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Yves-Marie Berce's The Birth of Absolutism offers a refreshingly original approach to the history of France between the Edict of Nantes and the ... More

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This is an account of the golden age of Renaissance state and the catastrophic era of the Wars of Religion. The book covers the principal political, ... More

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Barnet Litvinoff argues that the most significant year of the last ten centuries falls halfway through the millenium. In 1492 Europe, newly ... More

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This text covers the events in the Ottoman Empire from the fall of Constantinople to the decline of the Ottoman's power, taking a thematic approach. ... More

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This is an interdisciplinary journal published on behalf of the Mediterranean Studies Association. It addresses the ideas and ideals of Mediterranean ... More

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While Europe was still divided into a patchwork of feudal states, there emerged from the East a vast empire that eventually spanned the breadth of ... More

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From the age of antiquity to the Middle Ages, scholars argued about the existence of places, and perhaps peoples, beyond the world known to Europeans ... More

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Written to cover the AQA History A Level Unit 1 specification (HIS1B), our student book provides a focused look at key events in British history ... More

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A stunningly illustrated and accessible history of the Crusades from both sides of the war, from the 11th century to the 16th century, focuses on the ... More

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A complete guide to every region of the world between the years AD600 and 1783 Full-colour atlas section with annotations, timelines and summary text ... More

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P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings ... More

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This volume examines the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia from the arrival of the first Turks at the end of the eleventh century to the fall of ... More

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In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the ... More

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