historical nonfiction you should read
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- In honor of #nonfictionnovember I read a few great nonfiction reads and I thought I would review them together!
00:00 - intro and emperor of Rome
13:03 - ravenna
24:35 - princes in the tower
Books I mentioned:
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
Ravenna by Judith Herrin
The Princes in the Tower by Philippa Langley
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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!!!!
Fantastic recommendations!! So cool to see a genre i dont typically hear about and get some new recs!
I would love to visit those gorgeous churches in Ravenna. I imagine it was wonderful to experience those mosaics in person. 💙💛
I live not far from Ravenna. You are right the mosaic in person are something else. Come whenever you have the chance.
they really are amazing! I hope you get the opportunity to visit!
Hi Jennifer, Your house looks lovely!
Thank you! 😊
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 am so behind the curve on Mary Beard, I'm still on hold for Twelve Ceasars 🤣 Loved hearing your thoughts on these!
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 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 have the Princes in the Tower on hold at my library... just waiting, impatiently, for it to be available!
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.
Merry Christmas 😊
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 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 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.
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?
For a great beginners guide to the whole history of ancient Rome, I highly recommend the book by Pat Southern.
marcus furius camillus by mark hyden is a great read
I liked SPQR, but I still am new to the subject of Rome. Where do you recommend starting with Richard III? I want to read more about him.
Richard III? he has nothing to do with rome.
I’m aware, but I have been meaning to ask her about Richard III books.
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.
@@lisanorth4934 thank you.
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.
I actually haven't read them because the series is so long, lol.
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?
Caracalla wasn't mentioned nearly enough imo but he was mentioned!
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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.
Arianism wasn't a heresy it was a sect opposed by Necain Chrisitions a form of Christianity imposed by imperial Rome before
Nicea declares it heresy. So does the majority of Christendom: Orthodox, Catholics etc
@@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.