Nuremberg in the early fifteenth century: a merchant's household, an Emperor's visit, plague on the roads, and a girl who must choose between the man she wants and the family that made her. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name and wrote historical fiction alongside his scholarship; here he leaves Egypt for the free imperial city, and the guilds, the money and the church politics are all documented. Fifty-five plates, from Dürer to Munch, trace the forest, the fair and the ol...

Thebes under Rameses II: a paraschites' granddaughter, a young priest, a princess, and the temple politics of a state where the priesthood outranks the throne. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name and dug in Egypt for years; this 1877 novel made his reputation, and its rituals, titles and streets are drawn from the monuments and papyri he knew as a scholar. Fifty-eight plates of Roman ruins and capriccios, from Panini and Lanfranco to the Colosseum and Forum, echo the monume...

Alexandria after Actium: the fleet is gone, Antony is drinking, and Cleopatra — forty, brilliant, out of options — tests poisons and negotiates with Octavian's envoy while a young sculptor and his brother are destroyed at the edges of it. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name and dug in Egypt for years; his Cleopatra is a working monarch, not a temptress, and the archaeology is exact. Sixty plates of Roman ruins, capricci and the Colosseum by painters including Panini and Pie...

The Stories from Ancient Egypt gathers ten of Georg Ebers's historical novels into a single panorama of Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, and early Christian worlds. Combining romance, political intrigue, religious conflict, and archaeological reconstruction, these narratives translate nineteenth-century Egyptology into vivid fiction. Ebers's style is richly descriptive, earnest, and antiquarian, shaped by the historical novel after Scott yet distinguished by its documentary ambition and fascination w...

Spanning the eighteenth century to the modern era, *The Greatest Historical Romance Novels of All Time* maps the enduring dialogue between private desire and public history. Its selections range from epistolary seduction narratives, Gothic inheritances, and domestic comedies of manners to adventure romances, realist social chronicles, and transatlantic tales of conquest and displacement. Courtly intrigue, revolutionary upheaval, imperial encounter, ancestral memory, and forbidden attachmen...

Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, March 1, 1837 – Tutzing, Bavaria, August 7, 1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptianmedical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him (see Ebers Papyrus) at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873–74. Now in the Library of the University of Leipzig, the Ebers Papyrus is among the most important ancient Egyptian medical papyri. It is one of two of the oldest preserved medical documents anywhere—the other being the Edwin Smith Papyrus (ca. 1600 ...

Encapsulating the essence of love, conflict, and societal norms through the ages, 'The Greatest Historical Romances of All Time' is a profound anthology that showcases a diverse array of narratives and stylistic approaches spanning several centuries. This collection brings together seminal works that have shaped the romantic genre, blending historicity with tales of affection and human condition. Each piece, while distinct, converges around common themes of desire, societal expectation, an...

Georg Ebers' "The Stories from Ancient Egypt" is a rich tapestry of narrative that intertwines historical fact with imaginative fiction, capturing the essence of ancient Egyptian civilization through ten interconnected novels. Ebers employs an ornate literary style that reflects the grandeur of the era, immersing readers in a world of pharaohs, gods, and the daily lives of the ancient populace. Each story not only explores themes of love, betrayal, and heroism but is also steeped in meticu...

70 Greatest Love Stories in Fiction (Historical Novels Edition) surveys love as a force shaped by inheritance, class, war, empire, religion, and social convention. Moving among courtship comedy, epistolary intrigue, Gothic intensity, realist social observation, sentimental romance, and historical adventure, the volume places canonical novels beside popular and transnational traditions. Its selections illuminate both the private drama of desire and the public structures that constrain or tr...

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Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, March 1, 1837 – Tutzing, Bavaria, August 7, 1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptianmedical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him (see Ebers Papyrus) at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873–74. Now in the Library of the University of Leipzig, the Ebers Papyrus is among the most important ancient Egyptian medical papyri. It is one of two of the oldest preserved medical documents anywhere—the other being the Edwin Smith Papyrus (ca. 1600 ...

The Exodus told through an Egyptian officer of Hebrew birth — Hosea, who will be called Joshua — caught between the army he has served and the people he is asked to lead out. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name and dug in Egypt for years; he wrote this in 1889 with the archaeology of the Delta at his fingertips, and the plagues are described as a man of that court would have understood them. Fifty-six plates of painting, from Alma-Tadema to Rizzoni, carry the ancient world ...