the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.

In Louis L ' Amour's 1985 historical novel The Walking Drum, Kerbouchard studies and discusses Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine.

The crossing is described in Wallace Breem's historical novel " Eagle in the Snow.

Alexander II has been depicted in a historical novel.

Alexios is a character in the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis.

In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.

He is mentioned in the Louis L ' Amour medieval historical novel, The Walking Drum.

He is among the main characters of the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis ( b. 1920 ).

In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

Whether seen as a pagan work with “ Christian coloring ” added by scribes or as a “ Christian historical novel, with selected bits of paganism deliberately laid on as ' local color ', as Margaret E. Goldsmith did in “ The Christian Theme of Beowulf ,” it cannot be denied that Christianity pervades the text, and with that, the use of the Bible as a source.

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

* Hunter, Mollie, The Stronghold, an historical novel about the building of the first broch.

* Ivan, one of the protagonists of the historical novel by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes, El hombre que amaba a los perros ( The Man Who Loved Dogs ), is the editor of a university journal of veterinary medicine, who manages to make a living during the Special Period in Cuba by helping people take care of their dogs.

* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.

Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World ( 2006 ), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

In literature, Claudius and his contemporaries appear in the historical novel The Roman by Mika Waltari.

Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon ( 1999 ) also contains a fictional treatment of the historical role played by Turing and Bletchley Park.

* He appears as both historical figure and vampire in the novel " A matter of taste " which is a book in The Dracula Sequence by Fred Saberhagen.

A work that is often read as if it were non-fiction is his account of the Great Plague of London in 1665: A Journal of the Plague Year, a complex historical novel published in 1722.

* Dartmoor prison plays a central role in The Lively Lady, American author Kenneth Roberts ' 1931 historical novel taking place during The War of 1812

* Domitia and Domitian ( 2000 ), a historical novel by David Corson based on the works of Brian Jones and Pat Southern, revolving around the titular characters.

In 1971, American novelist Frank Yerby published The Man From Dahomey, a historical novel set partially in Dahomey.

The novel has been the subject of various interpretations, primarily focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas.

From the early Imperial era, some were forced to participate in humiliating and novel forms of mythological or historical enactment, culminating in their execution.

Historical records indicate that Copernicus was unaware of the fundamental aspects of his so-called ' revolution ', unaware perhaps of its historical importance, he rested content with having produced a simpler scheme for prediction.

One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.

It was `` the creation of a monstrous historical period wherein it thought it had to synthesize literature and politics and avant-garde art of every kind with its writers crazily trying to outdo each other in Spenglerian inclusiveness.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

Space was provided for short-time guest medical exhibits, and the Museum collected new accessions of microscopes, medical, surgical, and diagnostic instruments, uniform, and similar items of historical medico-military significance.

Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.

According to the new theories, the nineteenth century corporate sovereign was `` sovereign '' in a quite new and different sense from his historical predecessors.

and it was filled then as now by quarreling tribes with no political or historical unity.

On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.

This, in brief, was the historical background out of which Zen emerged.

NBC had gathered a lot of historical material which it was eager to share.

The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.

The historical order was abandoned in Runic and Arabic, although Arabic retains the traditional " abjadi order " for numbering.

The Texas Historical Commission has erected a historical marker near the entrance of what was once his plantation.

Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.