Overview :Following the fall of Rome, the sea is increasingly the stage upon which the human struggle of western civilization is played out. In a worl... Read More
Overview :Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French... Read More
Overview :The rise of Norman naval power in the central Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries prompted a seminal shift in the balance of... Read More