Historical Novel

Historical Novel

male
A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the...
Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta

male, deceased (1377)
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: "' was a Berber Sunni Islamic scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, or...
John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe

male, deceased (1384)
John Wycliffe (mid-1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English theologian and an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th ce...
Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman

female, deceased (1989)
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author, and became best known for "The Guns of...
Jean Froissart

Jean Froissart

male, deceased (1405)
Jean Froissart (c.1337 - c.1405) was one of the most important of the chroniclers of medieval France. For centuries, "Froissart's Chronicles" have...
Carpentras

Carpentras

male, deceased (1548)
Carpentras (c.1470-June 14, 1548) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was famous during his lifetime, and was especially notable for his...
Renaissance Humanism

Renaissance Humanism

male
Renaissance humanism (often designated simply as "humanism") was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the...
Francesco Landini

Francesco Landini

male, deceased (1397)
Francesco Landini or Landino (around 1325 - September 2, 1397) was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet and instrument maker. He was one of...
Mansa Musa

Mansa Musa

male, deceased (1337)
Mansa Musa was a 14th century king (or Mansa) who ruled the Mali Empire between 1312 and 1337. He is remembered for his fabled hajj and as a...
Rashid Al-Din

Rashid Al-Din

male, deceased (1318)
Rashid al-Din Tabib also Rashid ad-Din Fadhlullah Hamadani, was a Persian physician, writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history...