Download or read book Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland 1362 1392 written by James Ross and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of one of the most controversial figures of later fourteenth century England.
Download or read book Catalogue of Books written by Wigan (England). Free Public Library. Reference Dept and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Castle Community written by John Rickard and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists of owners, constables, and other known officials of English and Welsh castles, with sources. Arranged alphabetically by name of castle within each county.
Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole 1743 1750 written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lancaster Against York written by Trevor Royle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping history, Trevor Royle details one of the bloodiest episodes in British history. The prize was the crown of England, and the players were the rival houses of Lancaster and York. The dynastic quarrel threatened the collapse of the monarchy as a succession of weak rulers failed to deal with an overzealous aristocracy, plunging England into a series of violent encounters. The bloody battles and political intrigue between the rival heirs of King Edward III brought forth one of the most dynamic ruling families of England--the Tudors.
Download or read book The Fifteenth Century XX written by Linda Clark and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This series pushes the boundaries of knowledge and develops new trends in approach and understanding." ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW As is appropriate in a volume honouring the distinguished scholarship in this field of Dr Rowena E. Archer, wealthy and influential ladies, most notably Alice Chaucer, duchess of Suffolk, take centre stage, alongside successive queens consort of the period, whose councils helped to implement justice. Alice's almshouse at Ewelme provides a fine example of the many institutions which offered care for the elderly in late medieval England, a period when Henry VII placed great emphasis on the burials of his kinsfolk, particularly in Westminster abbey, to ensure that their memory would endure. Pretenders to the throne of that king and his successor, who included Alice's grandson, bring into focus the riots of 1487 near the borders of Wales and portraits dating from the 1520s. Other themes of language (how Henry V employed English in France), law (the development of the concept of the body corporate) and taxation (levies imposed on imported wine) are added to an intriguing comparison of relations between English administrators and the nobility of Gascony with British imperialists and the princes of India.
Download or read book The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet written by Andrew Breeze and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet: Studies on Arthurian and Other Traditions delves into the origins of Arthur and reveals the author of the famous Gawain Manuscript. Its first part contains evidence for the Arthur of film and legend as a real person, a Celtic commander (not a king) who fought battles in North Britain during the terrible volcanic winter of 536-7, before dying a hero's death in a conflict on Hadrian's Wall. Its second part moves on to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian poem on magic, near-death, and near-seduction. Its author has always been unknown, but Dr. Breeze uses arguments of the US scholar Ann W. Astell to date the text to 1387 and name the poet as Sir John Stanley (d. 1414), a Cheshire and Lancashire grandee. He can now be recognized as an artist of genius, comparable to Chaucer himself. What is said in this book on John Stanley and his circle thus allows the greatest advance in Arthurian Studies since 1934, when Walter Oakeshott discovered the Winchester Malory amongst manuscripts of an English school library.
Download or read book Historical Essays in Honour of James Tait written by Sir John Goronwy Edwards and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1933 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britain s Royal Families written by Alison Weir and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading popular historian Alison Weir 'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot. If George III did make such a marriage...then his subsequent marriage to Queen Charlotte was bigamous, and every monarch of Britain since has been a usurper, the rightful heirs of George III being his children by Hannah Lightfoot...' Britain's Royal Families provides in one volume, complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain - from 800AD to the present. Drawing on countless authorities, both ancient and modern, Alison Weir explores the crown and royal family tree in unprecedented depth and provides a comprehensive guide to the heritage of today's royal family – with fascinating insight and often scandalous secrets. 'Staggeringly useful... combines solid information with tantalising appetisers.’ Mail on Sunday
Download or read book John de Vere Thirteenth Earl of Oxford 1442 1513 written by James Ross and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earl of Oxford for 50 years, and subject of six kings of England during the political strife of the Wars of the Roses, John de Vere's career included more changes of fortune than almost any other. This is a full-length study of de Vere's life and career. Through this lens it also tackles a number of broader themes.
Download or read book Chaucer written by Marion Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Download or read book People Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages written by Gwilym Dodd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod’s wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on governance and political resistance, culture, religion and identity.
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
