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How Russia’s ‘Great’ enlightened empress crushed opposition and h
That threatened thrones
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Woman, Queen and Legend ...
In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle
The posthumous reputation of James VI and I
Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City ...
Nineteenth-century opera is packed with scenes of fiery confrontation, from the red-hot love entanglements in Bizet’s Carmen to the apocalyptic clashes between gods, demigods and humans in Wagner’s Ri