Download or read book A Crown for the King written by Ibn Gabirol and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Crown (or, "A Crown for the King" in Slavitt's translation) is the greatest of Gabirol's poems. Its theme is the problem of the human predicament: the frailty of man and his proclivity to sin, in tension with a benign providence that must leave room for the operation of man's free will and also make available to him the means of penitence. The Royal Crown is still printed in prayerbooks of the Sephardic rite for the Day of Atonement, and among North African Jewish communities (and their offshoots in Israel and elsewhere) it is read communally before the morning service of the Day. In northern Europe and the West this custom has lapsed, however the Royal Crown is still used for private penitential reading.

Download or read book Crown Sceptre written by Tracy Borman and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the British monarchy that’s “a superb synthesis of historical analysis, politics, and top-notch royal gossip” (Kirkus Reviews). Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England’s various kingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain’s throne. “Shining examples of royal power and majesty alongside a rogue’s gallery of weak, lazy, or evil monarchs,” as Tracy Borman describes them in her sparkling chronicle, Crown & Sceptre. Ironically, during very few of these 955 years has the throne’s occupant been unambiguously English—whether Norman French, the Welsh-born Tudors, the Scottish Stuarts, and the Hanoverians and their German successors to the present day. Acknowledging the intrinsic fascination with British royalty, Borman lifts the veil to reveal the remarkable characters and personalities who have ruled and, since the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, more ceremonially reigned. It is a crucial distinction explaining the staying power of the monarchy as the royal family has evolved and adapted to the needs and opinions of its people, avoiding the storms of rebellion that brought many of Europe’s royals to an abrupt end. Richard II; Henry VIII; Elizabeth I; George III; Victoria; Elizabeth II: their names evoke eras and the dramatic events Borman recounts. She is equally attuned to the fabric of monarchy: royal palaces; the way monarchs have been portrayed in art, on coins, in the media; the ceremony and pageantry surrounding the crown. Elizabeth II is already one of the longest reigning monarchs in history. Crown & Sceptre is a fitting tribute to her remarkable longevity and that of the magnificent institution she represents. “Crown & Sceptre brings us in short, vivid chapters from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth herself, much of it constituting a dark record of bumping off adversaries, rivals and spouses, confiscating vast estates and military invasions…. [A] lucid, character-rich book.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Borman’s deep understanding of English royalty shines.” —Chris Schluep, Amazon Editors’ Picks, The Best History Books of February 2022

Download or read book Pop Up Crown Jewels written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis coming soon.......

Download or read book Eleanor written by Kristiana Gregory and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mischievous and daring, a young princess ascends to new heights after a life of trials and tribulations.

Download or read book Crown and Country written by David Starkey and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated.

Download or read book The King and the Crown of Thorns written by Jerzy Pysiak and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis's authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis's reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers affirmed that the first relics of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople were transferred to Aachen by Charlemagne, then to Saint-Denis Abbey by Charles the Bald. The book discusses Saint Louis's translation of the Crown of Thorns as seen on the background of both Carolingian historical memory in Capetian era and Carolingian and Capetian tradition of the royal cult of relics.

Download or read book The Crown Jewels written by Anna Keay and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text captures the magnificence of a collection of symbolic objects steeped in English history like no other: the crown jewels.

Download or read book Kolea and the King s Crown written by Alice Guild and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How King Kalakaua of Hawaii traveled the world and helped design the King's Crown.

Download or read book A Discourse of Monarchy more particularly of the Imperial Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland according to the ancient and statute laws of the same With a close from the whole as it relates to the succession of his Royal Highness James Duke of York written by John WILSON (Recorder of Londonderry.) and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The King s Three Faces written by Brendan McConville and published by University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776

Download or read book The English Realm a Perfect Sovereignty and Empire and the King a Compleat and Imperial Sovereign Proved from the Express Statutes of the Kingdom and the Authority of the Most Famous English Lawyers With a Full Justification of the Doctrine of Passive Obedience Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1717 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Download or read book An Exact and Most Impartial Accompt Of the Indictment Arraignment Trial and Judgment according to Law of Twenty Nine Regicides The Murtherers Of His Late Sacred Majesty etc written by Heneage Finch Earl of Nottingham and published by . This book was released on 1660 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Animadversions on Mr Johnson s Answer to Jovian a work by G Hickes in three letters to a Country friend by W Hopkins written by William HOPKINS (D.D., Prebendary of Worcester.) and published by . This book was released on 1691 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A survey of the cities of London and Westminster brought down from the year 1633 to the present time by J Strype To which is prefixed the life of the author by the editor etc written by John STOW (Historian and Antiquary.) and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ideological Origins of the British Empire written by David Armitage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating accounts of the 'British problem' in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of British 'identities' in the Atlantic world.