... Ionian Revolt Persia and Persians Felton Henry Hume David Johnson Samuel Sir Walter Ralegh motivations Thirty Years War marginal annotations scholarly practice Punic Wars Restoration regime Machiavellianism Ralegh’s universal history proposed a series of providential truths that supported...

...Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent the next seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this work...