Dmitri Levitin

Making His Bones

Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

By Sachiko Kusukawa

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August 2024 Issue

Glenn Richardson

Crown of Thorns

Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen

By Mary Hollingsworth

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August 2024 Issue

Mathew Lyons

Prophecies, Potions & Prayers

Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

By Tabitha Stanmore

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August 2024 Issue

Philip Parker

To the Ends of the Earth

This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

By Andrea di Robilant

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July 2024 Issue

Elizabeth Goldring

Lord High Beagle

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By Stephen Alford

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August 2023 Issue

Peter Marshall

Oil, Resin, Vinegar & Paint

Albrecht Dürer: Art and Autobiography

By David Ekserdjian

Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World

By Ulinka Rublack

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April 2022 Issue

Mathew Lyons

They Courted Trouble

The House of Dudley: The Fall of England’s Most Scandalous Family

By Joanne Paul

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March 2022 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Secrets of the Seraglio

The Lion House: The Coming of a King

By By Christopher de Bellaigue

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March 2022 Issue

David Abulafia

The World Was Not Enough

Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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February 2022 Issue

Paul Lay

Palazzos by the Thames

London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650

By Manolo Guerci

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December 2021 Issue

Jonathan Healey

For King & Capitalism

Merchants: The Community that Shaped England’s Trade and Empire, 1550–1650

By Edmond Smith

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November 2021 Issue

Stefan Bauer

Waiting for the White Smoke

Conclave 1559: Ippolito d’Este and the Papal Election of 1559

By Mary Hollingsworth

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November 2021 Issue

Peter Marshall

Don’t Mention the Eucharist

Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet

By Bruce Gordon

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October 2021 Issue

Lucy Wooding

The View from Across the Channel

Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588–1688

By Clare Jackson

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

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August 2021 Issue

Mathew Lyons

Marketplace of the World

Antwerp: The Glory Years

By Michael Pye

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June 2021 Issue

Peter Davidson

The Words upon the Window Pane

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September 2020 Issue

Caroline Finkel

Master of the Universe?

God’s Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World

By Alan Mikhail

September 2020 Issue

Peter Marshall

Caught in the Crossfire

The Jews and the Reformation

By Kenneth Austin

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May 2020 Issue

Sarah Dunant

Love at Second Sight

A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519

By Carolyn James

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