Anthony Sattin

Striking Middle Sea

Two new histories of the Mediterranean emphasise its central importance to European history from ancient times to the present

issue 30 May 2015

  • Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

    Noel Malcolm

    Allen Lane, pp. 604

  • Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

    Peter N. Miller

    Harvard University Press, pp. 640

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