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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.

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The historical sign tells its story, but nothing gets interest across as well as some of the original historical items or places themselves which still have the character of the period covered.
However, according to Coogan, considerable historical inaccuracies remain throughout the text, supporting the view that the book of Esther is to be read as a historical novella which tells a story describing historical events but is not necessarily historical fact.
In retrospect hindsight tells us that its mumbo-jumbo about the period of production grossly misdiagnosed the macroeconomics of the 1927 – 1931 ( and the 1931 – 2007 ) historical scene ".
Bart Ehrman concludes: " What does the historical evidence tell us about Mary and Jesus ?.. it tells us nothing at all-certainly nothing to
The novel tells of the events of the Cousin's War from Anne's point of view and puts her as a major player in various historical moments.
* The 2011 historical fiction novel, The Battle of the Crater by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, tells the story of the battle and the events that lead up to it, as well as the aftermath.
* The Letter Writer by Ann Rinaldi is a work of historical fiction that tells of Nat Turner's uprising.
* In the historical novel Funeral Games by Mary Renault, Cassander visits the Lyceum in Athens and tells Theophrastos evil slanderous lies against Alexander the Great.
An historical marker located just east of Markleville on State Road 38 tells the story of the massacre.
The historical site includes the home where the world-famous aviator spent summers next to the Mississippi River and also a visitor's center that tells the Lindbergh family story and displays a full size replica of The Spirit of St. Louis cockpit.
Consisting of some 60, 000 verses, the Shahnameh tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of ( Greater ) Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.
Jane appears in the historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, which tells the story of her other sister-in-law, Mary Boleyn.
The migration of the Goths from Scandinavia however bears some similarities with the story of the Gutasaga, which tells of an emigration, that is associated with the historical migration of the Goths during the Migration period:
This historical novel tells the story of a Portuguese missionary in early 17th-century Japan who becomes an apostate under the threat of torture but continues to keep the Christian faith in private.
According to time capsule historian William Jarvis, most intentional time capsules usually do not provide much useful historical information: they are typically filled with " useless junk ", new and pristine in condition, that tells little about the people of the time.
The first half is a rock opera about a seven-year-old child on a beach who meets a stranger from New York City who tells her a story that takes her all around the world and through time where she encounters various characters, many of which are based on historical individuals such as Desiderius Erasmus.
* Acoustic rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, Bread and Roses's song " Boxing Day 1914 " tells a first-person historical fictional story of a WWI veteran remembering the truce.
Take the historical development of geometry as an example ; the first steps in the abstraction of geometry were made by the ancient Greeks, with Euclid's Elements being the earliest extant documentation of the axioms of plane geometry — though Proclus tells of an earlier axiomatisation by Hippocrates of Chios.
One of these rare historical examples, recorded by Sir George Mackenzie, tells of Aymery of Pavia, a Lombard who was made governor of Calais in 1349 ( and who bore Azure four mullets Or.
The first historical mention of Entella is found in Diodorus, who tells us that in 404 BCE the Campanian mercenaries, who had been in the service of the Carthaginians during the war, having been admitted into the city on friendly terms, turned their arms against the inhabitants, put all the male citizens to the sword, and made themselves masters of the place, of which they retained possession for many years.

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