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The Reconquista is often presented as a single, sweeping crusade to reclaim Iberia. It was nothing of...
A gleaming arm of Napoleon’s heavy cavalry, stubbornly brave and occasionally too visible for their own good...
There are castles that impress, and then there is Cité de Carcassonne. Dominating the landscape with a...
Frederick II does not sit comfortably alongside other medieval rulers. He feels slightly out of place, as...