The great unknowns of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, which have always aroused our most innate curiosity, gathered in a single book in which these enigmas will be resolved in an entertaining way and treated with zealous rigor. Ten enigmas of Ancient and Medieval History, apparently without connection to each other, that occur in succession throughout history and which, surprisingly, the main events narrated in them have the same motor: the desire of the West to conquer the East.
About the Author: David Barreras, born in Paris in 1976, is a researcher in a spin-off of the Higher Council for Scientific Research, which he combines with his role as a historian. With Nowtilus Publishing House, he has published the following titles: The Albigensian Crusade and the Aragonese Empire (2007), A Brief History of the Byzantine Empire (2010), A Brief History of the Cathars (2012), A Brief History of Feudalism (2013) and A Brief History of the Fall of the Roman Empire (2017); with Sílex Publishing House, The Legacy of James I the Conqueror (2015) and with Punto de Vista Publishing House, Charlemagne and Medieval Europe (2017); all of them with Cristina Durán as co-author. He has also participated in various conferences and published several articles in specialized magazines. His current lines of research as a historian are focused on the Mediterranean expansion of the Crown of Aragon and the transition between late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Cristina Durán, born in Ferrol in 1976, is a historian and criminologist. She has participated in the revision of the book by José Antonio Peña entitled Martín I El Humano, the only biography of this monarch published in this century to date, published by the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Poblet (2010), in which she has also written the prologue. Together with David Barreras she has traveled in recent years through Europe and Asia Minor gathering the bibliographic and photographic material necessary to prepare his works on Byzantium (A Brief History of the Byzantine Empire - Nowtilus, 2010), the Middle Ages (A Brief History of the Cathars - Nowtilus, 2012, A Brief History of Feudalism - Nowtilus, 2013, and Charlemagne and Medieval Europe - Point of View, 2017), Rome (A Brief History of the Fall of the Roman Empire - Nowtilus, 2017) and the Catalan Naval Empire (The Legacy of James I the Conqueror - Sílex, 2015).