It is interesting to hear how those who have worked on later centuries view my approach to the first encounters between Europeans and the New Worlds of the Atlantic at the end of the Middle Ages, though I am afraid Trevor Burnard has misunderstood not just the overall aims of my book but what IContinue reading “Response to Review no. 762”
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Prince Henry ‘the Navigator’. A Life
Peter Russell’s Henry ‘the Navigator’ is one of those rare books which has had classic, or rather legendary, status even before it was published. It was no secret that Russell was long at work on a full biography of a figure whom he had already drastically redrawn in his Canning House lecture forty years agoContinue reading “Prince Henry ‘the Navigator’. A Life”