Author: Mike AshleyPublisher: Running PressBook Pub
ISBN: 9780786706921
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Covers more than 1000 rulers and two millennia of history
The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens
Author: Mike AshleyPublisher: Running PressBook Pub
ISBN: 9780786706921
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Covers more than 1000 rulers and two millennia of history
Royal Panoply
Author: Carolly EricksonPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429904046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
From medieval conqueror to Renaissance autocrat to Victorian Empress to modern melodrama, Royal Panoply is the story of some of the most fascinating people in world history. With her trademark blend of probing scholarship, lively prose, and psychological insight, Carolly Erickson focuses on each monarch's entire life---from the puny, socially awkward Charles I, to the choleric, violent William the Conqueror, to the well-meaning, deeply affectionate Queen Anne, who was so heavy she had to be carried to her coronation. Royal Panoply recaptures the event-filled, often dangerous, always engaging lives of England's kings and queens, set against the backdrop of a thousand years of Britain's past.
Middle English Literature
Author: Christopher CannonPublisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745624413
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.
Brief Lives of the English Monarchs
Author: Carolly EricksonPublisher: Constable & Robinson
ISBN: 9781845295035
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This book contains wonderfully illuminating portraits of each English monarch from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II.
Lives of England's Monarchs
Author: Harvey Eugene LehmanPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1418496928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This informative entertaining read tells, with wit and understanding, England
The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England
Author: Antonia FraserPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520224605
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A compendium of illustrated biographies of the British monarchs, revised throughout and updated to include the recent history of the Windsors.
Monarchs of England
Author: Daniel ChalkePublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452183740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Royal portraits and fast historical facts on rulers from King Athelstan to Queen Elizabeth II. Whether famed like Queen Victoria or a bit more obscure like King Sweyn Forkbeard, this collection tells a story that spans more than a thousand years, showcasing the fifty-nine English monarchs who preceded King Charles. It features portraits from prestigious galleries like the National Portrait Gallery in London, each a beautiful, miniature work of art set in an elegant gilt frame, paired with fascinating details of the monarch’s reign. Perfect for reference, study, or an entertaining browse through history, Monarchs of England makes learning about the English monarchy a visual treat.
Kings & Queens
Author: Ann MacMillanPublisher: Welbeck
ISBN: 1802790047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history. Updated for the 2023 coronation, Kings & Queens explores the lives, loves, triumphs and disasters of a monarchy that is the envy of the world. Snow and MacMillan offer a unique insight into those born to rule, whether villains or heroes – from cruel King John and warrior-king Edward III, to our newest monarch, King Charles III. This is the story of modern civilization through the lens of those who have ruled.
Mary I
Author: John EdwardsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300118104
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A new appraisal of the first Tudor queen offers a detailed portrait of the daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon, exploring her religious faith and policies, as well as her historical significance in English history.
Lives of England's Reigning and Consort Queens
Author: H. Eugene LehmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781463430566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
"The companion for Lives of England's monarchs: the story of our American English heritage."