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Courtesans and Fishcakes
A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex. Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style. …
The Later Roman Empire
A comprehensive study which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD. After being beset by invasion, civil war and internal difficulties …
The Canterbury Tales
This reading of "The Canterbury Tales" is in contempoarary English prose to appeal to the student and general reader alike. It tells the story of a pilgrimage to Canterbury in …
The Roman Republic
Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered …
The Hellenistic World
With extensive use of quotations from original source material, this book examines the political events in the Hellenistic world from Alexander's death until his incorporation in …
Early Greece
Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization which …
The Search for the Perfect Language
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that …
The Conversion of Europe
The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300AD until the barbarian Lithuanians finally capitulated at the astonishingly late date of 1386. It is an epic tale from …
Politics of the Judiciary
This account of how the judiciary cannot act neutrally, but must act politically, has been fully revised and updated to consider the latest developments in its relations with …
Century of the Scottish People
A reprint of T.C. Smout's account of the Scottish people, from 1830-1950.