David Novak Reads Poetry | Ten Historians with Stellar Prose @davidnovakreadspoetry | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Inspired by this video at historian Brian Bruce’s BookTube channel: youtu.be/7GSxksN43KU?si=4rcZv9gFcCt1JIgW

Ten historians:

1. M.I. Finley / The Ancient Economy
2. Bernard Lewis / The Political Language of Islam
3. Steven Runciman / The First Crusade
4. F.R. Cowell / Cicero and the Roman Republic
5. Mark Edward Lewis / Sanctioned Violence in Early China
6. George Holmes / The Later Middle Ages
(Honorable Mention : Maurice Keen / Medieval Europe
7. Henry Adams / The History of the United States
8. Thucydides (Crawley translation)
9. Joyce Tyldesley / Hatchepsut
10. Robert Drews / The Coming of the Greeks
(Honorable Mention: Ivan Morris / World of the Shining Prince)