Author: Shad M. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN: 9780645570625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Shadow of the Conqueror
Author: Shad M. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN: 9780645570625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from the Earlist Accounts to the Present Time
Author: Adam AndersonThe King of Kings
Author: K M MunshiPublisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 935305527X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A mysterious emissary arrives in the port city of Bhrigukachchh. He has been sent by King Jaysinhdev of Patan with a secret message for Kaak, the valiant chieftain of the city. The king seeks to urgently enlist Kaak's help in conquering the kingdom of Junagadh. However, Kaak has also received crucial summons from two others: Leeladevi, the firebrand princess whose marriage to Jaysinhdev Kaak himself facilitated; and Ranakdevi, the queen of Junagadh. Caught in a web of conflicting loyalties, Kaak must navigate a treacherous terrain of political machinations where the slightest misstep could lead to grave consequences-where even he will not emerge unscathed. K.M. Munshi's magnificent conclusion to his beloved Trilogy, The King of Kings is a panoramic epic filled with adventure and intrigue, and a timeless classic with a nuanced insight into human nature and the complex links between statecraft and violence.
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5
Author: Andrew GallowayPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812239218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes. The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the poem, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line-by-line, section by section, and passus by passus commentary on all three versions of the poem and on the stages of its multiple revisions reveals new aspects of the poem's meaning while assessing and summarizing a complex and often divisive scholarly tradition. The volumes offer an up-to-date, original, and open-ended guide to a poem whose engagement in its social world is unrivaled in English literature, and whose literary, religious, and intellectual accomplishments are uniquely powerful. The Penn Commentary is designed to be equally useful to readers of the A, B, or C texts of the poem. It is geared to readers eager to have detailed experience of Piers Plowman and other medieval literature, possessing some basic knowledge of Middle English language and literature, and interested in pondering further the particularly difficult relationships to both that this poem possesses. Others, with interest in poetry of all periods, will find the extended and detailed commentary useful precisely because it does not seek to avoid the poem's challenges but seeks instead to provoke thought about its intricacy and poetic achievements. Andrew Galloway's Volume 1 treats the poem's first vision, from the Prologue through Passus 4, in all three versions, accepting the C text as the poet's final word but excavating downward through the earlier B and A texts. Stephen Barney's volume completes the framework for the commentary, dealing with the final three passûs of the poem, extant only in the B and C versions. Subsequent volumes will be the work of Ralph Hanna, Traugott Lawler, and Anne Middleton. Overall, The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman marks a new stage of concentrated yet wide-ranging attention to a text whose repeated revisions and literary and intellectual complexity make it both an elusive object of inquiry and a literary work whose richness has long deserved the capacious and minutely detailed treatment that only a full commentary can allow. Perhaps no poem in English appeals more than Piers Plowman to those readers who understand Yeats's "fascination with things difficult," yet The Penn Commentary will enable generations of readers to share in the pleasures and challenges of experiencing, engaging with, and trying to elucidate the difficulties of one of the towering achievements of English literature.
An historical and chronological deduction of the origin of commerce
Author: Adam AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
The Greatest Knight
Author: Thomas AsbridgePublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062262076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Renowned scholar Thomas Asbridge brings to life medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshal—providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it. Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war and condemned by his father to the gallows at age five, William Marshal defied all odds to become one of England’s most celebrated knights. Thomas Asbridge’s rousing narrative chronicles William’s rise, using his life as a prism to view the origins, experiences, and influence of the knight in British history. In William’s day, the brutish realities of war and politics collided with romanticized myths about an Arthurian “golden age,” giving rise to a new chivalric ideal. Asbridge details the training rituals, weaponry, and battle tactics of knighthood, and explores the codes of chivalry and courtliness that shaped their daily lives. These skills were essential to survive one of the most turbulent periods in English history—an era of striking transformation, as the West emerged from the Dark Ages. A leading retainer of five English kings, Marshal served the great figures of this age, from Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine to Richard the Lionheart and his infamous brother John, and was involved in some of the most critical phases of medieval history, from the Magna Carta to the survival of the Angevin/Plantagenet dynasty. Asbridge introduces this storied knight to modern readers and places him firmly in the context of the majesty, passion, and bloody intrigue of the Middle Ages. The Greatest Knight features 16 pages of black-and-white and color illustrations.
Estimates of the English Kings from William'the Conqueror'to George III.
Author: John Langton SANFORD (Barrister-at-Law)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from the Earliest Accounts; Containing an History of the Great Commercial Interests of the British Empire; to which is Prefixed, an Introduction, Exhibiting a View of the Antient and Modern State of Europe, and of the Foreign and Colonial Commerce, Shipping, Manufactures, Fisheries, Etc. of Great Britain and Ireland, and Their Influence on the Landed Interest
Author: Adam AndersonKings and Lords in Conquest England
Author: Robin FlemingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526944
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
One of the most stimulating and original contributions to Conquest studies, covering the period 950-1086.
An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from the Earliest Accounts
Author: Adam AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description