Now reissued with a number of additional illustrations

once described British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) as "one of the finest portraitists of the nineteenth century―in any medium

priesthoods

forty-seven of which are featured in this volume

The Mediterranean in History fantasy Now reissued with a numberEdited by David Abulafia In this richly illustrated volume, eight distinguished historians explore the facts, themes, and epochs of the history of the "Great Sea": the physical setting; the rivalry between Carthaginians, Greeks, and Etruscans for control of sea routes; unification under Rome and the subsequent break up into Western Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam; the Crusades; commerce in medieval times; the Ottoman resurgence; the rivalry of