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Alessandro Massignani • The Black Prince and the Sea Devils
Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History, with Lives of Nerva and Trajan (Classics)
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Physical and social stress induced by the failure not just of a single harvest but of two or more failures within five years, followed by plague, are likely drivers of tensions among and between lordships, of reinforced psychological dependence on credible leadership and religion. The last imports of exotica from the Mediterranean landed on
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Mirza Mughal’s attempts to act as a co-ordinating Commander-in-Chief had only very limited success.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal

it is worth thinking of a figure like Arthur in terms of the sort of lordship he might have enjoyed. In the Historia Brittonum he is explicitly not a king but a leader in war, fighting alongside kings or on their behalf. Conspicuously, while Gildas’s tyrants and the piratical warlords of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Irish Annalsp are territorial
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General Fox Conner: Pershing's Chief of Operations and Eisenhower's Mentor (The Generals Book 3)
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The situation of the Yamnaya chiefs might have been similar to that described by Barth in his account of the Yusufai Pathan invasion of the Swat valley in Pakistan in the sixteenth century. The invader, “faced with the sea of politically undifferentiated villagers proceeds to organize a central island of authority, and from this island he attempts
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Emblem of Faith Untouched: A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer (Library of Religious Biography (LRB))
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