In these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber the fairer sex get it in the neck. You have been warned. From the Yorkshire Witch, who was accused of murder when a potion ...more on ebook "Amazing Stories of Female Execution..."

Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, to know - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ and, at one time, it almost be ...more on ebook "The Gnostics - The First Christian ..."

Western Views of Islam in Medieval and early Modern europe ...more on ebook "Western Views of Islam in Medieval ..."

Relations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns ...more on ebook "Ancient China and its Enemies..."

Author Dillon tells how many popes who reigned during the first 16 centuries were no more than criminals. They bought the papacy by bribing cardinals with gifts of gold and benefices. When ...more on ebook "Those Naughty Popes and Their Child..."

This is the story of a nation of people who inhabited the southern third of Florida When Columbus first touched the shore of this new world. They earned their moment in the history of the wo ...more on ebook "Everett Kelly's The Atlatl..."

This book presents an engaging, detailed portrait of the people, ideas, and beliefs that made up the world of english medieval medicine between 750 and 1450, a time when medical practice ext ...more on ebook "Medicine in the English Middle Ages..."

From the author of "Victory in the east: A Military History of the First Crusade", this book offers a wide-ranging and innovative survey of crusading warfare, and is intended as a standard r ...more on ebook "Western Warfare In The Age Of The C..."

This is a one-volume history of medieval Scotland, concentrating on the period between the middle of the eleventh century and the Reformation and taking full account of recent scholarship. I ...more on ebook "Medieval Scotland..."

Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In the first book-length study to explore the origins and development of classical Arabic bi ...more on ebook "Classical Arabic Biography..."