Author: Gina D. B. ClemenPublisher:
ISBN: 9788877547033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Great english monarchs and their times. Con audiolibro. CD Audio
Author: Gina D. B. ClemenPublisher:
ISBN: 9788877547033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Great English Monarchs and their Times
Author: Gina D. B. ClemenPublisher: Uitgeverij De Boeck Secundair onderwijs
ISBN: 9788853004239
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
HISTORY Do you know that Henry VIII was happily married for almost 20 years to the same queen before meeting his other wives? Do you know Queen Elizabeth refused to marry in spite of all the men who loved her? And do you know what particular events during Queen Victoria’s long reign contributed to making the British Empire the biggest ever? English monarchs have fascinated the world for centuries. We are all curious to find out about their lives, their loves, their ambitions and their secrets. Dossiers: Reading a Painting and others
Great English Monarchs and Their Times
Author: Great English Monarchs and their Times. Con audiocassetta
Author: Gina D. ClemenPublisher: Black Cat-Cideb
ISBN: 9788877544308
Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Great English Monarchs and Their Times
Author: Gina D. B. ClemenPublisher:
ISBN: 9788431653293
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Great English monarchs and their times
Author: Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy
Author: David StarkeyPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007424825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An 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.
A Brief History of British Kings & Queens
Author: Mike AshleyPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 147211731X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the British Isles - even royals we think most familiar are revealed in a new and sometimes surprising light. This revised and shortened edition of The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens includes biographies of the royals of recorded British history, plus an overview of the semi-legendary figures of pre-history and the Dark Ages - an accessible source for students and general readers.
A Great and Terrible King
Author: Marc MorrisPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1605987468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The first major biography of a truly formidable king, whose reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale. Edward I is familiar to millions as "Longshanks," conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace (in "Braveheart"). Yet that story forms only the final chapter of the king's action-packed life. Earlier, Edward had defeated and killed Simon de Montfort in battle; traveled to the Holy Land; conquered Wales, extinguishing its native rulers and constructing a magnificent chain of castles. He raised the greatest armies of the Middle Ages and summoned the largest parliaments; notoriously, he expelled all the Jews from his kingdom. The longest-lived of England's medieval kings, Edward fathered fifteen children with his first wife, Eleanor of Castile and, after her death, erected the Eleanor Crosses—the grandest funeral monuments ever fashioned for an English monarch. In this book, Marc Morris examines afresh the forces that drove Edward throughout his relentless career: his character, his Christian faith, and his sense of England's destiny—a sense shaped largely by the tales of the legendary King Arthur. Morris also explores the competing reasons that led Edward's opponents (including Robert Bruce) to resist him. The result is a sweeping story, immaculately researched yet compellingly told, and a vivid picture of medieval Britain at the moment when its future was decided.
The Plantagenets
Author: Dan JonesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101606282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal) The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England’s best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years’ War, when England’s national identity was forged by the sword.