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  • SPARTACUS

    The Leader of the Roman Slaves

    de F. A. Ridley ...
    Marxist historian F. A. Ridley’s account of the revolt led by, among others, Thracian gladiator Spartacus, one of the prominent escaped slave leaders of the Third Servile War against the Roman Republic. Ridley places Spartacus and the uprising in the context of the social systems of antiquity; the rise of Rome as a world power; revolution and counter-revolution in antiquity; the rise of ... Leer más

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  • THE ASSASSINS

    de F. A. Ridley ...
    A history and Marxist analysis of the institutions of the Persian/Syrian Ismaeli sect founded by Hassan-ibn-Sabah ('The Old Man of the Mountain') known as 'The Assassins'. In Ridley's view the Assassin's unique claim to distinction in the eyes of history is that "they represent a sect that evolved a philosophy of survival, a defensive terrorism wherewith to terrorise in an age of terror." By ... Leer más

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  • THE JESUITS

    A STUDY IN COUNTER-REVOLUTION

    de F. A. Ridley ...
    This book —  a fascinating and learned account of the Pope’s Jihadis, the ‘Assassins of Christendom’ and the shock-troops of the Catholic counter-revolution — seeks to substitute historical dialectics for theology or archaeology as the chief clue to the investigation of the great medieval reaction of four centuries ago. For perhaps the first time, it shows Loyola's ultimate significance as the ... Leer más

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  • Pontifex Maximus

    A Short History of the Popes

    “Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time.”Gerald Posner, author of God’s Bankers"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles has an engaging prose style and an amazing eye for detail and apposite anecdote. Surely only purblind Catholic zelanti ... Leer más

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  • Christianity

    The First Three Thousand Years

    The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time—from the award-winning author of The Reformation and SilenceA product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity goes back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and encompasses the globe. It captures the major turning points in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox ... Leer más

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  • In the Shadow of the Sword

    The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

    de Tom Holland ...
    A thrillingly panoramic historical account of the rise of Islam, hailed as “a veritable tour de force” (The Wall Street Journal), from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is History“Accessible but delightful . . . as fun to read as any thriller, and with far richer intellectual nutritional content.”—The Daily BeastWritten with verve and panache, In the Shadow of ... Leer más

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  • The Reformation

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  • Ten Popes Who Shook the World

    de Eamon Duffy ...
    "Simply brilliant" essays on the leaders who have most powerfully shaped not just the Church itself, but the course of human history ( Catholic Library World).The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity's most powerful leaders for nearly two millennia, and their influence has extended far beyond the purely spiritual. The popes have played a central role in the history of Europe and the wider world, ... Leer más

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  • God's Crucible

    Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215

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  • History of Christianity

    de Paul Johnson ...
    First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books).In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author ... Leer más

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