Na het vertrek van de Romeinen uit de Westhoek volgen haast onzichtbare eeuwen tot de woongemeenschap Ipra stilaan in beeld verschijnt. Diverse kronieken hebben het dan al over het ‘Drie Torrenkasteel’ aan de (Ieper)Leet, de doortocht van geloofspredikers en de komst van Frankische volkeren, Germanen die gaandeweg hun stempel drukken op ons land dat nu deel uitmaakt van het grote Frankische Rijk. Door toedoen van Karel de Grote doet de feodaliteit zijn intrede in het Frankenrijk met een g...

‘Ik ga mee op reizen naar de nazivernietigingskampen die de Stichting Sobibor organiseert en ben gaan lezen over Aktion Reinhardt. Het zijn indrukwekkende reizen die niemand van de reisgenoten onberoerd laat. Het is de beleving van massamoord aan de lopende band.

Ik wil iets van mijn emoties en ervaringen in woorden vangen. Ik heb mijn vriend en beeldend kunstenaar Jeroen Hermkens gevraagd mee te gaan en zijn beeldend verhaal in tekening en litho vast te leggen. Het blijven eigen woorden en...

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world came an ambitious cobbler's son with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry-a torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous skepticism. What Christopher Marlowe found on the oth...

Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered.

Epigraphic Evidence includes a general introduction, a guide to the arrangement of the standard corpora inscriptions and individual chapters o...

A pioneering comparative history of British, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the social, cultural, and political impacts of European decolonization, including postcolonial migration, multicultural societies, and divided memories of empires past.

Available for the first time in paperback, The Lessons of History is Will and Ariel Durant's celebrated collection on the themes that define history

A thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing World

Wonderful' JOHN BARTON

'A stupendous intellectual achievement' ANDREW PETTEGREE

'A stunning love song to the Bible . . . this will be a classic' CHINE MCDONALD

The remarkable story of the most influential book in human history.

The Bible is the world's best-known text. Yet, it is a book that never was - its original form does not exist and probably never did. What we have is the inheritance of generation after generation of Christians who have sought to hea...