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A Crusader’s History of the Sack of Constantinople
On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...
New Statesman28d
The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull
By Michael Prodger, Megan Kenyon and Pippa Bailey The long conflict between Christendom and the Ottomans had any number of set pieces – the fall of Constantinople in 1453 ... £30. Buy the book In 1486 ...
Haunted by the ghosts of Gallipoli, I went to my own war in Helmand
As a young British Army officer heading for Afghanistan, Barney Campbell visited the Dardanelles, scene of one of the First ...
The Art Newspaper8d
New book explores the art of three artists whose work is beset by demons
The author looks at the defining features and similarities of work by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge ...
Global Voices Online5d
Framing the past: How Roma people are depicted in Romanian and Greek schools
The so-called “stateless people,” who originally migrated from northern India to Europe in the 14th century, are today ...
La Croix18dOpinion
Ecumenism: 'The Creed is a map that allows us to venture into faith'
This year, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity commemorates the 1,700th anniversary of the definition of the ...
CounterPunch16d
The Venetian Republic Offers Powerful Lessons to an American One in Need of Repair
The smaller, weakened Byzantine Empire, restored after the crusade, could not withstand the rising Ottoman Empire, whose conquest of Constantinople in 1453 disrupted ... Even centuries after its fall, ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
Kids Are A Trip on MSN7d
Top Things to Do in Istanbul with Kids + 2025 City Break Guide
Istanbul, Europe's largest city, is one of the best city break destinations in Turkey. The city has a mix of cultural ...
Rolling Stone25d
Meet the Millennial Bob Dylan Superfan Bringing Dylanology Into the 21st Century
And eventually, many years later, that sort of turned into my first couple of books [Cover Me ... ve gotten were rips of the Crystal Cat from fall of 2000. I remember printing out the art for ...