MEDIEVAL WORLD: Volume 18: The Rise of the Medici

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Theme: The Rise of the Medici
* A Lasting Impact: The Medici family and its legacies
* The Rise of the Medici: The family, the firm, and the faction
* Know your Medicis: Key members of the famous Florentine family
* Camaraderie and Animosity: The Medici and the Pazzi
* The Medici as Patrons: Art in Renaissance Florence

Features:
* Ruined Heritage: Albania's Shirgj Church
* Chivalric Literature: Reading and living the knightly life
* Conquistadors and Asian Vikings: The Spanish conquest of the Philippine Archipelago
* Grunwald: The Teutonic Order's iconic defeat
* Machiavelli's The Prince: The psychology of a leader
* Tostig Godwinson: A study in toxic brotherhood
* Growing Old in the Middle Ages: Understanding medieval life expectancy
* Book Review: Birth of the Red Dragon: Wales and the Wars of the Roses
* Book Review: Medieval Sovereignty