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December 2021 Issue Sarah Dunant Scholar in Arms The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino By Jane Stevenson LR
October 2021 Issue Dmitri Levitin How Philology Changed the World The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 By Christopher S Celenza LR
September 2020 Issue Davíd Carrasco Romancing the Scribe Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs By Camilla Townsend
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October 2000 Issue Jane Dunn Need for Magnificence New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485–1603 By Susan Bridgen LR
July 2019 Issue Eric Ormsby Straw Men in Mufti Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750 By Noel Malcolm LR
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August 2016 Issue Jonathan Sumption Man of Few Words Henry V: The Conscience of a King By Malcolm Vale LR
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December 2004 Issue C A R Hills The Whole World for Their Grave A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 By Malyn Newitt LR
August 2008 Issue Allan Massie A Bellicose Bibliophile The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his Lost Library By Marcus Tanner LR
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September 2012 Issue Linda Porter Wearing the Breeches Blood Sisters: The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses By Sarah Gristwood LR
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