Download or read book The Life of Edward the Black Prince 1330 1376 written by Henry Dwight Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Dwight Sedgwick, widely known for his biographies of LaFayette, Cortez, Henry of Navarre, and Alfred de Musset, has here chosen for his subject Edward, the Black Prince. Richard Coeur de Lion stepped into the sunlight in "Ivanhoe" and "The Talisman." Shakespeare took Henry the Fifth as the exemplar of English manhood. To the third great martial hero of the royal house of England fate has been less kind. Great literature has passed him by. This could hardly have been from lack of appreciation. In England the name of the Black Prince has always been renowned. Perhaps poets and dramatists could not find in his simple straighforwardness such traits of passion, revenge, or treachery as would befit their tempestuous verse. But his forthright story, in which appear alike the pageantry and inequality of chivalry, the gallant deeds and the deep tragedy of the Hundred Years' War, is gloriously interesting material for biography. Mr. Sedgwick is fortunate in his subject and the Black Prince, after six centuries, fortunate in his biographer. Mr. Sedgwick has gone to the contemporary chroniclers, Froissart, the Herald Chandos, Geoffrey Baker, Cuvelier and others. Where the original sources are in conflict he is skillful in reconciling them. His study of Crécy and Poitiers makes much more clear what happened at those extraordinary and obscure battles. His choice of material preserves the colors, bright and dark, of a transition age, and the flashing figure of the gallant Prince stands out brilliantly. The Black Prince is a typical Englishman, a bulldog for tenacity, the flower of the world's chivalry, in his generosity, his arrogance, and his extravagance, true to his age. Around him are a host of interesting figures: his father, Edward III; his mother, Philippa, who begged for the lives of the burghers of Calais; his wife, the truly fair "Fair Maid of Kent," and her romantic story. His lieutenants, members with him of the newly-founded Order of the Garter, patterned themselves after King Arthur's Knights but served a very practical purpose. There were bright spirits like Geoffrey Chaucer, Froissart, William of Wykeham, John Wyclif, and, from the East, the Black Death, greatest conqueror of all. These are the forty-six years of a strenuous life in a turbulent age in the "April of Patriotism," amid the battles, sieges, plundering of the Hundred Years' War. "With the Black Prince's death died the hope of Englishmen," not soon to be born again. When it was reborn, it was the fulfillment of his life, for Edward the Black Prince, is one of the few martial heroes who have made England England. - Jacket flap.
Download or read book The Life of Edward the Black Prince 1330 1376 Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by Henry Dwight SEDGWICK (Son of H. D. Sedgwick, the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Edward the Black Prince written by Louise Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Prince written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.
Download or read book A History of the Life of Edward the Black Prince etc 2 Ed written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A history of the life of Edward the Black Prince and of various events connected therewith which occured during the reign of Edward III King of England written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Prince written by Michael Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child he was given his own suit of armor; at the age of sixteen, he helped defeat the French at Crécy. At Poitiers, in 1356, his victory over King John II of France forced the French into a humiliating surrender that marked the zenith of England’s dominance in the Hundred Years War. As lord of Aquitaine, he ruled a vast swathe of territory across the west and southwest of France, holding a magnificent court at Bordeaux that mesmerized the brave but unruly Gascon nobility and drew them like moths to the flame of his cause. He was Edward of Woodstock, eldest son of Edward III, and better known to posterity as “the Black Prince.” His military achievements captured the imagination of Europe: heralds and chroniclers called him “the flower of all chivalry” and “the embodiment of all valor.” But what was the true nature of the man behind the chivalric myth, and of the violent but pious world in which he lived?
Download or read book A History of the Life of Edward the Black Prince written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Life of Edward the Black Prince written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cressy and Poictiers the Story of the Black Prince s Page written by John G. Edgar and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward, Prince of Wales, (1330 - 1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England. He was also known as the Black Prince. An exceptional military leader, he won the battles of Cressy and Poictiers, which made him very popular during his lifetime. John G. Edgar's novel gives an account of the life of the Black Prince's young page, who accompanied the prince to the battle of Cressy when English fleet took the soldiers to France.
Download or read book Edward the Black Prince written by David Green and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward the Black Prince was one of the most successful English commanders of the Hundred Years War. In this, the first new biography of the prince for nearly 25 years, David Green explores the importance of Edward's life.
Download or read book The Wheel of Fortune written by Susan Howatch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “emotion-packed” New York Times–bestselling saga by the author of Cashelmara, set on a Welsh family estate in the early twentieth century (San Francisco Chronicle). Tucked in the hills of South Wales is Oxmoon, the ancestral estate of the Godwin family. In the summers before 1914, music streams through the family home as the Godwins, at the height of their prosperity, dance in the ballroom with their guests. But despite the remarkable talents of heir-apparent Robert Godwin, the fates have a rough, tough ride planned for him and those he loves. Fortunes shift during two world wars, disastrous love affairs leave the family battered, and finally jealousy threatens to destroy Oxmoon and all it symbolizes. Based on a true story that has been updated to modern times, The Wheel of Fortune is a timeless tale of love, hatred, revenge, redemption, and forgiveness. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Download or read book Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine written by Richard W. Barber and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To attempt to write a biography of Edward 'the Black Prince', a legendary paragon of chivalry, without turning first to the chronicler of chivalry par excellence, Jean Froissart, may seem self-defeating, particularly as there is so little light to be shed on the prince's character from other sources. But the classic stories of the school textbooks and romantic histories have held sway for too long without being challenged, and I have therefore tried to work outwards from accounts and 'official' chronicles to arrive at an account of Edward, prince of Wales and Aquitaine, and in particular of the group of men who were his companions-in-arms. Space and time have not allowed me to do as much work on the latter as I would have wished, but I hope that I have been able to show both the prince and his father as part of a close-knit, brilliant group of knights rather than as isolated figures, and to capture something of the prince's life as a great baron and as an almost sovereign ruler in Aquitaine. - Preface.
Download or read book Life of Edward the Black Prince written by Louise Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward the Black Prince written by David Green and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated second edition uses the career of Edward the Black Prince to explore key developments in the history of late medieval Europe. The eruption of the Hundred Years War, the arrival of the Black Death, England’s first religious heresy, and major innovations in the role of parliament all took place during Edward’s lifetime. As king-in-waiting and one of the most significant noblemen in the realm, the prince was a major influence over local and international politics, and his example helped reshape concepts of lordship throughout the Plantagenet estates. This thoroughly revised edition includes new sources and builds on the wealth of scholarship which has been published in recent years about the fourteenth century. It includes considerations of the prince’s military career in France and Iberia, his household and the ‘colonial’ characteristics of his administrations in Wales and Aquitaine. The prince’s career also reveals the influence of the chivalric ethic and the importance of Gascony to the English crown, while his relationship with Joan, ‘the Fair Maid’ of Kent is suggestive of the changing character of female agency in the later middle ages. Drawing on central themes such as plague, chivalry, lordship, parliament, gender, and religion, Edward the Black Prince is essential reading for all students and scholars concerned with society, culture, and power in medieval Europe.
Download or read book Le Prince noir written by Chandos Herald and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of the Black Prince written by Chandos Herald and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
