Bøker av Noel (Senior Research Fellow Malcolm

Albania and Kosovo have long, fascinating histories of connection with the wider European world. These essays explore this history from the 15th century to the 20th, through stories of Italian pilgrims, British diplomats, Albanian village girls converting to Islam, Muslims practising secret Christianity, and Ottoman men enslaving fellow citizens.

Based the author's Carlyle lectures, Useful Enemies explores the theme of Western ideas of Islam and the Ottoman empire across three centuries.

Explores an episode in seventeenth-century history, revealing the involvement of a great modern thinker in secret and dangerous machinations of international politics.

Aspects of Hobbes is a major event in the study of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), one of the giants of early modern thought. It offers introductions to Hobbes's life and thought and studies of many aspects of his political philosophy, his scientific and religious theories, his relations with his contemporaries, the sources of his ideas and more.