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Book English Costume

Download or read book English Costume written by Dion Clayton Calthrop and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edward II

Download or read book Edward II written by Mary Saaler and published by Stacey International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is less a textbook, more a clearly-written chronological narrative of Edward's life and reign. Sadler covers all the main issues, including Piers Gaveston, the Templars, the military and political conflicts of the reign, and the deposition and death of the King.

Book The Reputation of Edward II  1305 1697

Download or read book The Reputation of Edward II 1305 1697 written by Kit Heyam and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime and the four centuries following his death, King Edward II (1307-1327) acquired a reputation for having engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with his male favourites, and having been murdered by penetration with a red-hot spit. This book provides the first account of how this reputation developed, providing new insights into the processes and priorities that shaped narratives of sexual transgression in medieval and early modern England. In doing so, it analyses the changing vocabulary of sexual transgression in English, Latin and French; the conditions that created space for sympathetic depictions of same-sex love; and the use of medieval history in early modern political polemic. It also focuses, in particular, on the cultural impact of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II (c.1591-92). Through such close readings of poetry and drama, alongside chronicle accounts and political pamphlets, it demonstrates that Edward's medieval and early modern afterlife was significantly shaped by the influence of literary texts and techniques. A 'literary transformation' of historiographical methodology is, it argues, an apposite response to the factors that shaped medieval and early modern narratives of the past.

Book Edward II  1307 1327

Download or read book Edward II 1307 1327 written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reign of Edward II

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gwilym Dodd
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 1903153190
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book The Reign of Edward II written by Gwilym Dodd and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign. Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period of English history, but to date he has been relatively neglected in comparison to other fourteenth and fifteenth-century kings. This book offers a significant re-appraisal of a much maligned monarch and his historical importance, making use of the latest empirical research and revisionist theories, and concentrating on people and personalities, perceptions and expectations, rather than dry constitutional analysis. Papers consider both the institutional and the personal facets of Edward II's life and rule: his sexual reputation, the royal court, the role of the king's household knights, the nature of law and parliament in the reign, and England's relations with Ireland and Europe. Contributors: J.S. HAMILTON, W.M. ORMROD, IAN MORTIMER, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ALISTAIR TEBBIT, W.R. CHILDS, PAUL DRYBURGH, ANTHONY MUSSON, GWILYM DODD, ALISON MARSHALL, MARTYN LAWRENCE, SEYMOUR PHILLIPS.

Book Edward II

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Warner
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2014-10-15
  • ISBN : 1445641321
  • Pages : 517 pages

Download or read book Edward II written by Kathryn Warner and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic life and mysterious death of the reviled Edward II, focusing on the vivid personality of the erratic and contradictory king, his unorthodox lifestyle and his passionate relationships with his male favourites, including Piers Gaveston

Book Edward II  1307 1327  4 v

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  • Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Edward II 1307 1327 4 v written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edward the Second

Download or read book Edward the Second written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Long Live the King

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Warner
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2017-06-07
  • ISBN : 0750983272
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Long Live the King written by Kathryn Warner and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward II’s murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to an Italian hermitage. In Long Live the King, medieval historian Kathryn Warner explores in detail Edward’s downfall and forced abdication in 1326/27, the role possibly played by his wife Isabella of France, the wide variation in chronicle accounts of his murder at Berkeley Castle and the fascinating possibility that Edward lived on in Italy for many years after his official funeral was held in Gloucester in December 1327.

Book Calendar of the Patent Rolls  Edward II  1307 1327  5 v

Download or read book Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward II 1307 1327 5 v written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Intrigue

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  • Author : Ian Mortimer
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2010-09-16
  • ISBN : 1441148582
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Medieval Intrigue written by Ian Mortimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399 and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender. Central to this book is his ground-breaking approach to medieval evidence. He explains how an information-based method allows a more certain reading of a series of texts. He criticises existing modes of arriving at consensus and outlines a process of historical analysis that ultimately leads to questioning historical doubts as well as historical facts, with profound implications for what we can say about the past with certainty. This is an important work from one of the most original and popular medieval historians writing today.

Book Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II

Download or read book Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II written by Paul Doherty and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In chess, from the time of Queen Isabella of England, the queen has been considered the most powerful and feared piece on the board. Known to chroniclers as the 'she-wolf', Isabella, daughter of Philip IV of France, married King Edward II of England in 1308 in a union intended to create a lasting peace between the two countries. But after 13 years of enduring her husband's unkind and dissolute nature she fled abroad. With her lover, the exiled Roger Mortimer, she raised an army of mercenaries and invaded England, successfully deposing Edward. Popular belief holds that Edward was murdered in an infamous manner at Berkeley Castle near Gloucester, at the order of his wife and her lover. But after Mortimer's execution a letter arrived at court that cast doubt over Edward's death and raised the possibility of his escape. The evidence remains controversial to this day, and here Paul Doherty examines it in his fascinating detective study, set in one of the most turbulent and exciting periods of English history.

Book Edward II s Nieces  The Clare Sisters

Download or read book Edward II s Nieces The Clare Sisters written by Kathryn Warner and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A great book to introduce you to three fascinating sisters whose marriages during the reign of the infamous Edward II transformed England.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd The de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanish queen Eleanor of Castile, and were the daughters of the greatest nobleman in England, Gilbert “the Red” de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. They grew to adulthood during the turbulent reign of their uncle Edward II, and all three of them were married to men involved in intense, probably romantic or sexual, relationships with their uncle. When their elder brother Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, was killed during their uncle’s catastrophic defeat at the battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, the three sisters inherited and shared his vast wealth and lands in three countries, but their inheritance proved a poisoned chalice. Eleanor and Elizabeth, and Margaret’s daughter and heir, were all abducted and forcibly married by men desperate for a share of their riches, and all three sisters were imprisoned at some point either by their uncle Edward II or his queen Isabella of France during the tumultuous decade of the 1320s. Elizabeth was widowed for the third time at twenty-six, lived as a widow for just under forty years, and founded Clare College at the University of Cambridge. “Another enjoyable read on women in history that don’t always get the limelight that they deserve. Kathryn Warner has done it once again by providing a well-written, well-researched, informative and engaging read.” —Where There’s Ink There’s Paper

Book Isabella of France

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Warner
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2016-03-15
  • ISBN : 1445647419
  • Pages : 515 pages

Download or read book Isabella of France written by Kathryn Warner and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the exceptional woman who wrested power from Edward II and changed the course of English history

Book Calendar of Close Rolls

Download or read book Calendar of Close Rolls written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book EDWARD II  VOL  I  1307   VOL  IV  1327

Download or read book EDWARD II VOL I 1307 VOL IV 1327 written by GREAT BRITAIN. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scalacronica

Download or read book Scalacronica written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: