Author: Cambridge University Library. Bradshaw Irish CollectionPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
The Henry Bradshaw Irish Collection Presented in 1870 and 1886
Author: Cambridge University Library. Bradshaw Irish CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
The Lives of the English Poets
Author: The Genealogy of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Drummond
Author: William Drummond Strathallan (1st viscount)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A Distant Mirror
Author: Barbara W. TuchmanPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0345349571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary
Pencil Sketches
Author: Eliza LesliePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of the Right Honourable the Countess of Neuburgh
Author: The Story of an Old Farm
Author: Andrew D. MellickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Worthies, Families, and Celebrities of Barnsley and the District
Author: Joseph WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barnsley (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians
Author: Robert WodrowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
The Annals of a Border Club (the Jedforest)
Author: George TancredPublisher:
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Category : Jedburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description