In "William the Conqueror", Professor Douglas analyzes the causes and the true character of the Norman impact upon England in the eleventh century. The work is both a study of Anglo-Norman history and a biography of a man whose personal career was spectacular, and as reviewers have remarked, it is d[...]
An eccentric collection of aphrodisiac recipes. Here are dishes to seduce and be seduced by - oysters with champagne, elderflower fritters and intoxicating love drinks, as well as recipes from antiquity, such as crane cooked with red wine. This book was first published in 1952.[...]