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Writing a New History of the Middle Ages: Interview with Dan Jones on Powers and Thrones

Tides of History

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Book Review - The Distant Mirror by Barbara Takeman

"I've just learned to trust my instinct and my interest more than anything else," he says. "If it's exciting to me, then i figure it's going excite my readers." The author has written 10 books in his life; this is the tenth book about florence. He was an admirer of barbara tookman's 'the distant mirror', which used fourteenth century as a reflective canvas.

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