This work brings to life and collects those obscure works written when chivalry was a living tradition that had spread across the whole of Europe.
This little known traveller's account of the 1920s is at the same time amusing and perceptive. Beginning in Baghdad, travelling across the Gulf to Bahrain, Ameen Rihani enters the... Læs mere
Long acknowledged to be the ' best travel guide to Istanbul (Times of London) this classic of travel literature is now available in a larger format in hardback binding. The... Læs mere
After describing women's position in Roman society, this book surveys the crypto-sexual satisfaction derived by Romans from a range of activities: the sadistic treatment of... Læs mere