You are so incredibly knowledgeable. I am not a huge history fan at all However, you made the content of this video so fascinating and informative!, You totally hooked a non history person into being interested in this genre and wanting to know more! loved!!!!
Ravenna has been calling to me from my bookshelf all year. As an Orthodox convert, I have so much interest in Byzantine art as well. You’ve inspired me to put Ravenna on my travel bucket list as well as bumping up the book into my Jan/Feb 2024 TBR. I have the paperback copy, I will let you know if there are errors or if that was simply an ebook issue. Beautiful Christmas decor, by the way!
I loved your breakdown of The Emperor of Rome. I have very similar feelings about SPQR and its time jumps, so I never finished it. With The Emperor, though I'm not a fan of themed chapters, I will give it a fair shot. Your review convinced me. The rest of the recommendations are also on my TBR. Once I finish reading Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar biography, I'm gonna be jumping in. Subscribed!
I saw a nonfiction history video and I clicked. I think you tend to read different periods and places than I do, but that's cool. I should read a wider variety.
I found this very interesting I like reading some non fiction but some books I don’t find there a point to read some books .thank you Jennifer your take on these books.specially the princes in the tower . I like the Tudors and Mary queen of Scots.
If you haven't read Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells yet, you should! It's a phenomenal piece of nonfiction travel writing from shortly after Italian reunification in the 1860s. Mark Twain even said that Howells had no peer in the English language
I think the Ravenna book sounds most appealing to me. I too have experienced seeing a lot of errors and typos in books published during the pandemic but I guess that was the publishing industry problems at that time. I enjoyed reading Katherine Howe and Anderson Cooper's new book, Astor: The Rise and Fall of An American Fortune during November, which tells a lot of problems experienced by this family as others in the same boat. Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell is another book I read with similar themes. Doesn't matter how much money you have, life can still hit in the gut no matter who you are. Both are compelling reads.
I had the same opinion of SPQR. I might read another of her books. I am one of those people who likes learning about regular people in history, so that aspect wouldn't be hard for me. I'm new to Roman history so a beginner book or as close to one as possible would be great.
I’m a huge Richard III fan, and the book I would recommend starting with is ‘Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me’ by Matthew Lewis. It’s a really good biography of his life, and unlike most biographies of him, it puts him firmly within the context of his time and portrays him as a human being, rather than the one dimensional villain he is so often made out to be.
I know this is a foolish question but I will ask anyway. Have you read the series, THE HOUSE OF NICCOLO, by Dorothy Dunnett? I figure your interest in Italian history has led you to her series long ago, but I thought I would ask.
SPQR was the book I had my eye on whenever I decide to jump into Roman history. I might have to check this one out of the library instead of buying it. What would you recommend as a starting point?
Noooo, you have to stop recommending historical nonfiction! I always end up adding everything you mention to my TBR. Seriously, you even sold me on Mary Beard, who I always considered to be too far on the 'popular' side of nonfiction, if that makes sense. Now, my one question is: Does Emperor of Rome include my man Caracalla?
I am a fan of Richard III and find Henry VII (and indeed VIII) hard to like but if the princes were killed, you can't have a high standard of evidence for Richard but a low one for Henry. Richard III was a good man who took the throne to save his own life and had he survived Bosworth, would have been a great king but he was a man of his time nad like his brother Edward IV, would execute any threat to the throne.
@@publican168 back then there was no Orthodox or Catholics but different schools of thoughts on Christianity. to call it a heresy is just a biased way of saying im from this sect or that.
