Author: Bodo Kirchhoff
Publisher: Harvill Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Louise Cooper
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9780812506679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Indigo, an immortal wanderer, journeys throughout the world, seeking to lift the curse of the Tower of Regrets, accompanied only by her nonhuman friend and forever haunted by a determined enemy

Author: Erin Belieu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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A collection of "urban-chic" poems. In Rondeau at the Train Stop, which is set in Boston, she writes: "It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay / drifting toward me on the T stop, the train / circling the city like a dingy, year-round / Christmas display. The Puritans were right, / sin's / everywhere in Massachusetts."

Author: Theresa Earenfight
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271091924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Catherine of Aragon is an elusive subject. Despite her status as a Spanish infanta, Princess of Wales, and Queen of England, few of her personal letters have survived, and she is obscured in the contemporary royal histories. In this evocative biography, Theresa Earenfight presents an intimate and engaging portrait of Catherine told through the objects that she left behind. A pair of shoes, a painting, a rosary, a fur-trimmed baby blanket—each of these things took meaning from the ways Catherine experienced and perceived them. Through an examination of the inventories listing the few possessions Catherine owned at her death, Earenfight follows the arc of Catherine’s life: first as a coddled child in Castile, then as a young adult alone in England after the death of her first husband, a devoted wife and doting mother, a patron of the arts and of universities, and, finally, a dear friend to the women and men who stood by her after Henry VIII set her aside in favor of another woman. Based on traces and fragments, these portraits of Catherine are interpretations of a life lived five centuries ago. Earenfight creates a compelling picture of a multifaceted, intelligent woman and a queen of England. Engagingly written, this cultural and emotional biography of Catherine brings us closer to understanding her life from her own perspective.

Author:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 1688

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Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: NBM Publishing
ISBN: 1561632139
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Wilde's tales are adapted into a comic book format and use fairy tale elements and Christian symbolism.

Author: Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Glyn Redworth
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300101980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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On the night of 7th March 1623, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Buckingham knocked on the door of the British embassy in Madrid. Their unsolicited arrival began one of the most bizarre episodes in British history, as the Protestant heir to the Stuart throne struggled to win the Spanish Infanta as his bride. secure a marriage between the leading Protestant and Catholic royal families and heal Europe's century-old division into warring Christian camps. The effort was a diplomatic disaster. It split political and religious opinion in Britain, alienated much of Italy and Germany, confused the Spaniards (who thought that the English crown was about to convert), and failed to secure a marriage or to resolve the Thirty Years' War. explanation of this pivotal moment and tells a fascinating story of early modern politicking, cultural misunderstanding and religious confusion.

Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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