A Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume I Ancient

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access ’who’s who’ with details the identities and dates, with ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference.

Timothy Venning is an independent scholar and researcher and formerly worked on the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography. His previous books include A Chronology of the Crusades (2015), A Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe (2017), A Chronology of Medieval British History, 1066-1307 (2020), and A Chronology of Medieval British History, 1307-1485 (2020).