Reading List

Paul Waters, ancient historical fiction (read Republic of Vengeance, thought was very good)

Mary Renault, ancient historical fiction

Naomi Mitchison, ancient historical fiction

Rosemary Sutclif, ancient historical fiction

William Golding, ancient historical fiction

Paul Cartledge, Thermopylae

Foreman – Georgina, Duchess of Devon

Susan Holloway Scott – the Countess and the King

Leslie Carrol – Royal Affairs

Skidmore – Death and the Virgin Queen

Thomas Penn – Winter King

Ekirch – At Day’s Close

Guthman – Weighing In

Weir – The Lady in the Tower (nonfic)

Goldstone – The Maid and the Queen

Klein – Sexual Intelligence (reviewed)

Herold – Mistress to an Age

Plowden – The House of Tudor

Griffiths – The Making of the Tudors

Brimacombe – Tudor England

Schofield – The Rise and Fall of Cromwell

James – Catherine Parr

Hart – The Mistresses of Henry VIII

Mantel – Bringing Up the Bodies (reviewed)

CJ Sanum

Harry Sidebottom - read Warrior of Rome series, may look at some non-fiction

Willig

Worth

Karen Maxwell

Harper

Meyer – The Tudors

Kate Emerson

Polydore Vergil

Helen DeWitt – Lightning Rods

Guillot – Crusades

David Starkey – Henry

Poole

Penman

Barbara Wood – Domina and The Prophetess (though The Divining wasn't that good)

Sforza family

Cesare Borgia

Seneca

El Cid
A.N. Wilson - The Elizabethans
Saladin
Albert Bell, Jr. - Pliny the Younger mysteries
D.S. Potter - The Roman Empire at Bay AD 180-395
J.P.V.D. Balsdon - Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome
Periods in Pop Culture - Rosewarne
Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies by Michael Bader
And When She Was Good - Lippman
Betha, wife of Aethelred of Kent
Empress Adelaide of Italy
Empress Theophanu