In the first of theAHRreviews, historian of early America Michael D. Hattem gives a positive assessment ofAssassin’s Creed III(2012), praising the verisimilitude of its Revolutionary War–era colonial American setting as well as the way the game emphasizes social history. “The attention paid b...
The Avignon popes were not as much under the control of the French kings as has been charged (or as the kings would have liked). However, some popes did bow to royal pressure, as Clement V did to a degree in the matter of theTemplars. Although Avignon belonged to the papacy (it was...