"Lush and evocative…A highly satisfying, delicately woven story about loss, loneliness, life, and death." —KIRKUS REVIEWS Anna and her husband John, a maste

Much of Europe and the Middle East have been governed by a king, Queen, Emperor, or Empress. These individuals in most cases began a dynasty which lasted many y

Explores how kings and rulers in medieval Europe gained control and governed.

Monarchies 1000 –2000 surveys a form of government whose legitimacy rests not on voluntary consensus but on age-old custom, heredity and/or religious sanction

These diverse essays investigate political factors behind the rapid development of cartography in Renaissance Europe and its impact on emerging European nations