Author: Robert Lacey
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759511616
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary's "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V's skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII's schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but from the authority of the Catholic Church; "Bloody Mary" and the burning of religious dissidents; Sir Francis Drake's dramatic, if questionable, part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada; and the terrible and transformative Great Fire of London, to name but a few. Here Anglophiles will find their favorite English kings and queens, villains and victims, authors and architects - from Richard II to Anne Boleyn, the Virgin Queen to Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys to Christopher Wren, and many more. Continuing the "eminently readable, highly enjoyable" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) history he began in volume I of Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to-date research to present a taut and riveting narrative, breathing life into the most pivotal characters and exciting landmarks in England's history.
Author: Danna R Messer
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526729326
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of foreign hegemony, internal dynastic strife and constant warfare, the comings and goings of women are little noted in sources. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England (d. 1237), the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd, illegitimate daughter of King John and half-sister to Henry III. With evidence of her hand in thwarting a full scale English invasion of Wales to a notorious scandal that ended with the public execution of her supposed lover by her husband and her own imprisonment, Joans is a known, but little-told or understood story defined by family turmoil, divided loyalties and political intrigue. From the time her hand was promised in marriage as the result of the first Welsh-English alliance in 1201 to the end of her life, Joans place in the political wranglings between England and the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was a fundamental one. As the first woman to be designated Lady of Wales, her role as one a political diplomat in early thirteenth-century Anglo-Welsh relations was instrumental. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her overall deployment of royal female agency.
Author: David Elliott
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 1328987590
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Bestselling author Elliott ("In the Wild") explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in this evocative novel that gives her the "Hamilton" treatment.
Author: Penny Lawne
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445644711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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The story of the beautiful wife of the Black Prince and mother of Richard II.
Author: Gemma Hollman
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750993502
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle – and her husband was about to fall from grace. Jacquetta Woodville was a personal enemy of Warwick the Kingmaker, who was about to take his revenge. Elizabeth Woodville was the widowed mother of a child king, fighting Richard III for her children's lives. In Royal Witches, Gemma Hollman explores the lives of these four unique women, looking at how rumours of witchcraft brought them to their knees in a time when superstition and suspicion was rife.
Author: Joanna Hickson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008305595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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‘A fascinating portrait of the women who helped make a dynasty’ The Times ‘Bewitching’ Woman & Home ‘Evocative’ Woman’s Weekly
Author: Kathryn Warner
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445647419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 515
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The fascinating story of the exceptional woman who wrested power from Edward II and changed the course of English history
Author: Pam Pollack
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399542949
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country. Though she was captured and executed for her beliefs, Joan of Arc became a Catholic saint and has since captured the world's imagination.
Author: Stephen Spinks
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445685086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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A new and revealing portrait of the king behind the legend during the turmoil of the First Scottish Wars of Independence, based on primary sources.
Author: David Williamson
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780304344277
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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"Explores the lives of the kings, queens, princes, princesses and royal pretenders of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the very earliest times through to the present day....--even biographies of royal pets."--Jacket.
