Author: Emma Robinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Whitehall; or, The days of Charles i. By the author of Whitefriars
Author: Emma Robinson
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Pages : 890
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Pages : 890
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Whitehall, Or, The Days of Charles I
Author: Emma Robinson
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Pages : 380
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Pages : 380
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The Ruin of All Witches
Author: Malcolm Gaskill
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593316584
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology. “The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing. Malcolm Gaskill goes to meet the past on its own terms and in its own place…Thought-provoking and absorbing." —Hilary Mantel, best-selling author of Wolf Hall In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The finger of suspicion soon falls on a young couple with two small children: the prickly brickmaker, Hugh Parsons, and his troubled wife, Mary. Drawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, Malcolm Gaskill vividly evokes a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments. The Ruin of All Witches captures an entire society caught in agonized transition between superstition and enlightenment, tradition and innovation.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593316584
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology. “The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing. Malcolm Gaskill goes to meet the past on its own terms and in its own place…Thought-provoking and absorbing." —Hilary Mantel, best-selling author of Wolf Hall In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The finger of suspicion soon falls on a young couple with two small children: the prickly brickmaker, Hugh Parsons, and his troubled wife, Mary. Drawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, Malcolm Gaskill vividly evokes a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments. The Ruin of All Witches captures an entire society caught in agonized transition between superstition and enlightenment, tradition and innovation.
Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I, King of England
Author: Isaac Disraeli
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Pages : 558
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Commentaries on the life and reign of Charles the first
Author: Isaac Disraeli
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, King of England
Author: Isaac Disraeli
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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The English Civil Wars
Author: Blair Worden
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297857592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297857592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.
The King of Illustrated Papers
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Languages : en
Pages : 1098
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Pages : 1098
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The Trial and Execution of King Charles I
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Pages : 80
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Pages : 80
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To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape
Author: Charles Spencer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008153655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008153655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?