Europe

The recent recovery of large quantities of porcelain from the South China seas highlights eighteenth-century Europe's insatiable desire for tableware from the Orient.

David Braund takes a look over the latest collection of books on the Roman age.

Julie Richards-Williams on the salvaging of a 17th-century Swedish warship.

Existing elements of pagan midwinter rites fused with the developing theology of Christmas in an appeal to the senses of both sacred and lay.

Peter Salway examines the image Roman writers and commanders had of their island province.

'They do this for their Christian faith and for the saving of souls' – as Russians travelled west, they began to notice moral divides between the countries they visited and their own society.

Paul Dukes sets the scene for a series of articles on the rise of Russia from the seventeenth century.

A book on the history of the Peninsular War and another review of a title on Portugal as seen by British Diplomats and traders.

Though hymned by writers as an exemplum of Sparta's virtue, was Agesilaos the author as well as the spectator of her decline and fall?