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''[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet ...

Over the past 2000 years the portrayal of the cross has changed and developed.  How have these changes reflected belief and culture around the wor...

Women play an immensely important role in the Bible: from Eve to the Virgin Mary, Sarah to Mary Magdalene, Naomi to the anonymous woman suffering s...

How has Christ been seen for the last two millennia? From the Christ of the Gospels to the Isa of Islam, this book explores the way Jesus Christ ha...

If the Viking Wars had not taken place, would there have been a united England in the tenth century? Martyn Whittock believes not, arguing that wit...

The year 2020 is a hugely significant one for the United States of America, marking as it does the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflowe...

Islam is not the only religion that has sought to take political power, or believed that it should be possible to create a theocracy. In the 17th ...

Islam is not the only religion that has sought to take political power, or believed that it should be possible to create a theocracy. In the 17th ...

The popular image of the Vikings is of tall red-headed men, raping and pillaging their way around the coast of Europe, stopping only to ransack mon...

A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends. Marytn Whittock provides...