Download or read book The Conqueror and His Companions written by James Robinson Planché and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal and domestic history of William the Conqueror, &c.
Download or read book The Conqueror and His Companions written by J. Planche and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book Love the Conqueror written by Sydney Carstone and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nations of the World Mexico and the life of the conqueror Fernando Cortes written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Virgin and the Conqueror written by Martin Marshall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory history of England in the medieval and early modern periods, consisting primarily of biographies of England's kings and queens from 1066 to 1603. The book is intended to provide a readable and enjoyable introduction to the period for readers with no prior knowledge. It would also be useful as a starting point for those coming to A-Level or first year undergraduate study of the period.
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Download or read book Mexico and the Life of the Conqueror Hernando Cort s written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William the Conqueror written by David Charles Douglas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a study of Anglo-Norman history based upon long and detailed research and also the biography of a man whose personal career was spectacular.
Download or read book Queen of the Conqueror written by Tracy Joanne Borman and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palace of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. The count’s eldest daughter, Matilda, had refused William’s offer of marriage and publicly denounced him as a bastard. Encountering the young woman, William furiously dragged her to the ground by her hair and beat her mercilessly. Matilda’s outraged father immediately took up arms on his daughter’s behalf. But just a few days later, Baldwin was aghast when Matilda, still recovering from the assault, announced that she would marry none but William, since “he must be a man of great courage and high daring” to have ventured to “come and beat me in my own father’s palace.” Thus began the tempestuous marriage of Matilda of Flanders and William the Conqueror. While William’s exploits and triumphs have been widely chronicled, his consort remains largely overlooked. Now, in her groundbreaking Queen of the Conqueror, acclaimed author and historian Tracy Borman weaves together a comprehensive and illuminating tapestry of this noble woman who stood only four-foot-two and whose role as the first crowned Queen of England had a large and lasting influence on the English monarchy. From a wealth of historical artifacts and documents, Matilda emerges as passionate, steadfast, and wise, yet also utterly ruthless and tenacious in pursuit of her goals, and the only person capable of taming her formidable husband—who, unprecedented for the period, remained staunchly faithful to her. This mother of nine, including four sons who went on to inherit William’s French and English dominions, confounded the traditional views of women in medieval society by seizing the reins of power whenever she had the chance, directing her husband’s policy, and at times flagrantly disobeying his orders. Tracy Borman lays out Matilda’s remarkable story against one of the most fascinating and transformative periods in European history. Stirring, richly detailed, and wholly involving, Queen of the Conqueror reveals not just an extraordinary figure but an iconic woman who shaped generations, and an era that cast the essential framework for the world we know today. Praise for Queen of the Conqueror “[Tracy Borman] brings to life Queen Matilda’s enormous accomplishments in consolidating early Norman rule. Alongside her warrior husband, William I, Matilda brought legitimacy, a deeper degree of education, diplomatic savvy and artistic and religious flowering to the shared Norman-English throne. Borman . . . the chief executive of Britain’s Heritage Education Trust, fleshes out the personality of this fascinating woman, who set the steely precedent for subsequent English female sovereigns by displaying great longevity and stamina in a rough, paternalistic time. . . . A richly layered treatment of the stormy reign that yielded the incomparable Bayeux Tapestry and the Domesday Book.”—Kirkus Reviews “Tracy Borman tells this story with a steady eye and a steady hand, tracing what can be known of Matilda’s part in the events that were to change the course of English history.”—Helen Castor, Literary Review
Download or read book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Download or read book Mexico and the Life of the Conqueror Fernando Cortes written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pelle the Conqueror Complete Edition written by Martin Andersen Nexø and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2006 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete edition (Parts I to IV): I. Boyhood; II. Apprenticeship; III. The Great Struggle; IV. Daybreak. Martin Andersen Nexo (1869-1954) was born in the slums of Copenhagen into extreme poverty. He was the fourth of eleven children. His father, a stone mason, was an alcoholic and his mother was a daughter of a blacksmith. When he was eight, the family moved to the town of Nexo on the island of Bornholm, whose name he adopted in 1894 as his own. His breakthrough work, the Danish classic Pelle the Conqueror, appeared between 1906 (Part I) and 1910 (Part IV). It tells the story of Pelle, a poor boy, whose life in Part I shares much similarities with Nexø's. "The great charm of the book lies in the fact that the writer knows the poor from within; he has not studied them as an outsider may, but has lived with them and felt with them, at once a participant and a keen-eyed spectator. He is no sentimentalist, and so rich is his imagination that he passes on rapidly from one scene to the next, sketching often in a few pages what another novelist would be content to work out into long chapters or whole volumes. His sympathy is of the widest, and he makes us see tragedies behind the little comedies, and comedies behind the little tragedies, of the seemingly sordid lives of the working people whom he loves." (Otto Jespersen) "Pelle" has conquered the hearts of the reading public of Denmark and of the world. The first part of the book was filmed by Bille August; in 1989 the film won the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film.
Download or read book Pitt s Gallant Conqueror written by James Dreaper and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using previously unpublished sources, James Dreaper has produced a groundbreaking new assessment of this unusual military figure, and a portrait of the times in which he served. Pitt's Gallant Conqueror illuminates the turbulent years of the mid eighteenth-century when there was still opportunity for military entrepreneurs to stamp their own mark on events."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Complete Works of L E Landon written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
