Looking at History

Those publications with an asterisk (*) were co-written with C.W. Daniels. This list does not include editorials for Teaching History , book...

In a week’s time it will be the 950th anniversary of the one event that most people in Britain know…the Battle of Hastings.  It is no sur...

JUST PUBLISHED The kingdom of France when Louis VI came to the throne in 1108 was a patchwork of feudal principalities over which the autho...

PASSING 400,000 I started my Looking at History blog on Blogger on 30 July 2007 and it’s taken until 7 June 2013 to reach 400,000 ‘hits’: ...

[285] While this had been happening, his noble son Roger [1] had continued unceasingly to threaten Cephalonia. Robert intended to go himsel...

[210] An unusually cold winter led the people quartered near the River Glykys to sicken. A great many of them suffered from cold and hunger,...

[80] Meanwhile, after repairing their ships, the Venetians [1] returned to the city of Durazzo and gained entry there without resistance. I...

When Alexius learned that Robert had crossed the sea [1] , he strove to regroup his battered forces and to destroy the camp of the absent du...

In the final part of his work, William of Apulia deals with events around Durazzo during Guiscard’s absence in Italy: the pillage of Durazzo...

[450] There was at Durazzo a distinguished man who had come from Venice, called Domenico. [1] He hated another man, said to be the son of t...

[325] In addition he ordered Basil Mesopotamites to lead the advance guard of two thousand picked cavalrymen to reconnoitre Duke Robert’s ca...

[185] Meanwhile his wife and the counts who had been summoned arrived. With a great crowd looking on, Robert called his fine son Roger [1] ...