Volume 3: Issue: 10
Contents of History Today, October 1953 |
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Bernard Lewis writes that the fall of Constantinople in was no “victory of barbarism, but rather of another and not undistinguished civilization.” |
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A leading actor in the civil war, Clarendon in his History offered an interpretation of the causes of the conflict which has been much debated by later... |
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The Italian prince who boasted that the Pope was his chaplain, and the Emperor his condottiere, ended his days in 1508, forgotten in a foreign prison |
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Michael Howard records the relish with which Oliver Cromwell ended a particularly famous session in the House of Commons. |
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In the twelfth-century conflict between Church and State, Henry II found his most determined opponent in his formerly devoted servant, Thomas Becket, as Arthur... |
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D.H. Pennington uses the diary notes of a contemporary MP to give readers a real sense of the dramatic atmosphere in the pre-Civil War House of Commons. |
