by envisionmg | Jul 22, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
You know how one book leads to another? The Richest Man Who Ever Lived by Greg Steinmetz is one of those. I was reading The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance and the name Jacob Fugger was mentioned. It was almost nothing; just a mention...
by envisionmg | Jul 13, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History, Today In History
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 1174 William I of Scotland is Captured by Henry II of England In 1173 the sons of...
by envisionmg | Jun 28, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
I have a thing for the Medici. At least I have a thing for the first few Medici. Once you get to Lorenzo the Magnificent the family takes a sharp turn down hill. However Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici, Cosimo de Medici (I have a picture of him next to my desk and...
by envisionmg | Jun 15, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
If you ask most people what caused the American Revolution you would get some basic answer like “no taxation without representation,” stamps, or tea. We all have little niggling memories from school of being told, but can’t quite give a coherent...
by envisionmg | Jun 6, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
When most people think of Sicily they think of the Mafia; the more literary minded may get more specific and think Mario Puzo, but that’s as far as it probably goes. What makes Norwich’s Sicily such a great book is he delves into the fascinating and...
by envisionmg | May 25, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History, Today In History
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 240BC The First Recording of a Perihelion Passage of Halley’s Comet Chinese...
