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1 day ago · In 1535, Erasmus' friends Thomas More, Bishop John Fisher and Brigittine Richard Reynolds were executed as pro-Rome traitors by Henry VIII, who Erasmus and More had first met as a boy. Despite illness Erasmus wrote the first biography of More (and Fisher), the short, anonymous Expositio Fidelis , which Froben published, at the instigation of de ...
2 days ago · The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan(review copy courtesy of Columbia University Press) brings together three historical accounts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Each looks at a different uprising or rebellion, with infighting between the major clans leading to sieges and full-scale battles, where leading ...
