Author: Joan Smith
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610849752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
When Sir Reginald Prance sets up an art studio on Ironmonger Lane, and a man dies, the Berkeley Brigade has an interest in finding out what happened. Lord and Lady Luten, along with Coffen Pattle and butler Black, uncover a nefarious plot to steal Roman ruins. Even Mrs. Ballard takes a job at Mademoiselle Marie’s millinery to assist in their investigations. A 12th adventure for the Berkeley Brigade! Regency Mystery by Joan Smith; originally published by Belgrave House/Regency Reads
Murder on Ironmonger Lane
Author: Joan Smith
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610849752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
When Sir Reginald Prance sets up an art studio on Ironmonger Lane, and a man dies, the Berkeley Brigade has an interest in finding out what happened. Lord and Lady Luten, along with Coffen Pattle and butler Black, uncover a nefarious plot to steal Roman ruins. Even Mrs. Ballard takes a job at Mademoiselle Marie’s millinery to assist in their investigations. A 12th adventure for the Berkeley Brigade! Regency Mystery by Joan Smith; originally published by Belgrave House/Regency Reads
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610849752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
When Sir Reginald Prance sets up an art studio on Ironmonger Lane, and a man dies, the Berkeley Brigade has an interest in finding out what happened. Lord and Lady Luten, along with Coffen Pattle and butler Black, uncover a nefarious plot to steal Roman ruins. Even Mrs. Ballard takes a job at Mademoiselle Marie’s millinery to assist in their investigations. A 12th adventure for the Berkeley Brigade! Regency Mystery by Joan Smith; originally published by Belgrave House/Regency Reads
11 Ironmonger Lane
Author: Donovan Dawe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Thomas Becket
Author: John Guy
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679603417
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A revisionist new biography reintroducing readers to one of the most subversive figures in English history—the man who sought to reform a nation, dared to defy his king, and laid down his life to defend his sacred honor NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KANSAS CITY STAR AND BLOOMBERG Becket’s life story has been often told but never so incisively reexamined and vividly rendered as it is in John Guy’s hands. The son of middle-class Norman parents, Becket rose against all odds to become the second most powerful man in England. As King Henry II’s chancellor, Becket charmed potentates and popes, tamed overmighty barons, and even personally led knights into battle. After his royal patron elevated him to archbishop of Canterbury in 1162, however, Becket clashed with the King. Forced to choose between fealty to the crown and the values of his faith, he repeatedly challenged Henry’s authority to bring the church to heel. Drawing on the full panoply of medieval sources, Guy sheds new light on the relationship between the two men, separates truth from centuries of mythmaking, and casts doubt on the long-held assumption that the headstrong rivals were once close friends. He also provides the fullest accounting yet for Becket’s seemingly radical transformation from worldly bureaucrat to devout man of God. Here is a Becket seldom glimpsed in any previous biography, a man of many facets and faces: the skilled warrior as comfortable unhorsing an opponent in single combat as he was negotiating terms of surrender; the canny diplomat “with the appetite of a wolf” who unexpectedly became the spiritual paragon of the English church; and the ascetic rebel who waged a high-stakes contest of wills with one of the most volcanic monarchs of the Middle Ages. Driven into exile, derided by his enemies as an ungrateful upstart, Becket returned to Canterbury in the unlikeliest guise of all: as an avenging angel of God, wielding his power of excommunication like a sword. It is this last apparition, the one for which history remembers him best, that will lead to his martyrdom at the hands of the king’s minions—a grisly episode that Guy recounts in chilling and dramatic detail. An uncommonly intimate portrait of one of the medieval world’s most magnetic figures, Thomas Becket breathes new life into its subject—cementing for all time his place as an enduring icon of resistance to the abuse of power.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679603417
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A revisionist new biography reintroducing readers to one of the most subversive figures in English history—the man who sought to reform a nation, dared to defy his king, and laid down his life to defend his sacred honor NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KANSAS CITY STAR AND BLOOMBERG Becket’s life story has been often told but never so incisively reexamined and vividly rendered as it is in John Guy’s hands. The son of middle-class Norman parents, Becket rose against all odds to become the second most powerful man in England. As King Henry II’s chancellor, Becket charmed potentates and popes, tamed overmighty barons, and even personally led knights into battle. After his royal patron elevated him to archbishop of Canterbury in 1162, however, Becket clashed with the King. Forced to choose between fealty to the crown and the values of his faith, he repeatedly challenged Henry’s authority to bring the church to heel. Drawing on the full panoply of medieval sources, Guy sheds new light on the relationship between the two men, separates truth from centuries of mythmaking, and casts doubt on the long-held assumption that the headstrong rivals were once close friends. He also provides the fullest accounting yet for Becket’s seemingly radical transformation from worldly bureaucrat to devout man of God. Here is a Becket seldom glimpsed in any previous biography, a man of many facets and faces: the skilled warrior as comfortable unhorsing an opponent in single combat as he was negotiating terms of surrender; the canny diplomat “with the appetite of a wolf” who unexpectedly became the spiritual paragon of the English church; and the ascetic rebel who waged a high-stakes contest of wills with one of the most volcanic monarchs of the Middle Ages. Driven into exile, derided by his enemies as an ungrateful upstart, Becket returned to Canterbury in the unlikeliest guise of all: as an avenging angel of God, wielding his power of excommunication like a sword. It is this last apparition, the one for which history remembers him best, that will lead to his martyrdom at the hands of the king’s minions—a grisly episode that Guy recounts in chilling and dramatic detail. An uncommonly intimate portrait of one of the medieval world’s most magnetic figures, Thomas Becket breathes new life into its subject—cementing for all time his place as an enduring icon of resistance to the abuse of power.
The Chronicles of Crime, Or, The New Newgate Calendar
Author: Camden Pelham
Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The Chronicles of Crime, Or The New Newgate Calendar
Author: Camden Pelham (pseud.)
Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The Chronicles of Crime
Author: Camden Pelham (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The chronicles of crime; or, The new Newgate calendar, a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters
Author: Camden Pelham (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The New and Complete Newgate Calendar ... Containing ... Narratives ... of the Various Executions and Other Exemplary Punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the Year 1700 to the Present Time
Author: William Jackson (of the Inner Temple.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Memorials of London and London Life, in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth Centuries
Author: City of London (England). Corporation
Publisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of it
Author: John Strype
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description