F or me, the standout book of 2025 is John Blair’s Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World ...

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Pope Paul III did not mince his words. In the bull of excommunication promulgated on 17 December 1538, he reviled Henry VIII as a tyrant who had ‘transformed himself into a beast’. This was a king, ...