Historia

The siege of Constantinople in AD 717-18 was the supreme crisis of Western civilization.The Byzantine Empire had been reeling under the onslaught of Arabic imperialism since the death of the Prophet, whilst Jihadist armies had detached Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Carthage from imperial control and (...)

Fiel a la serenidad que muestran sus principios literarios, pero sin renunciar a una reconocible pasión investigadora que acude a las fuentes originales en bibliotecas y archivos, David Casado persigue con dedicación incansable las huellas del que, en su tiempo, fue considerado en su juventud como (...)

A fascinating, illustrated study of how the Roman Republican legions defeated the Macedonian army's much-vaunted phalanxes.The battle of Cynoscephalae represents a key moment in the history of the Greco-Roman world. In this one battle the Macedonian hold over mainland Greece was broken, with the (...)