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08 August 2025
King Carlos and Queen Eleanor
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I mentioned yesterday how King Carlos III of Navarre brought in midwives from Toledo to help his wife. The reality is, of course, that want...
13 February 2023
Tennis, Anyone?
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The earliest version of the game now called "real tennis" (or court tennis or royal tennis) was jeu de paulme , literally "pa...
20 July 2012
Mirrors for Princes
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Machiavelli's Il Principe (c.1513) was far from innovative. Writers since classical times had produced works that explained the proper ...
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