Images

A statue of the French privateer Robert Surcouf (active 1794-1810), Saint-Malo, France. Sculpted by Alfred Caravanniez.

Jan Žižka leading his army, illustration from the Jena codex, c. 1490-1510.

Battle of Grunwald (1410), oil on canvas painting by Jan Matejko, 1878. National Museum, Warsaw.

A c. 1850 painting by Ambroise Louis Garneray showing the 1800 battle between the Confiance captained by the French privateer Robert Surcouf and the Kent. (Musée d'Histoire de Saint-Malo, France)

Sistine Madonna, oil on canvas painting by Raphael, 1513-1514. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

Cover of Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell. Published by Oxford University Press.

Gordon Campbell, the author of Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth published by Oxford University Press.

A map illustrating the changing balance of power in the Ancient Near East in the 13th century BCE resulting from the expansion of the Hittite and Assyrian empires and the collapse of the Mittani kingdom.

A reverse-glass painting showing the European customs factories at Canton (modern Guangzhou, China) around 1805.

A map illustrating the aftermath of the 15th century BCE ruinous campaigns by the Old Hittite Empire that led to the emergence of new powerful entities in the ancient Near East - the Middle Babylonian Kingdom of the Kassites, the Mitanni...