Mazzini’s ‘Young Italy’
The situation facing the forces of liberalism and nationalism in Italy in 1830 was apparently more hopeless than that facing...
30/06/2016
Pope
Book review: The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
Author: Peter Frankopan Publisher: Bodley Head Reviewed by: Norman Housley Price (RRP): £20 Norman Housley has mixed feelings about the...
10/04/2012
What about Pope Joan?
Sadly, pope Joan – lovely idea though she is – is entirely fictional. According to legend, after the death of...
11/03/2012
An Islamic Army of Frederick II
Archeologists and historians are shedding new light on how medieval Holy Roman emperor Frederick II created an Islamic army to...
04/03/2012
Book review: The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich
It takes a brave soul to write a history of the papacy – a famously vast and confusing subject. If...
18/12/2011