Author: RosesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Roses and Thistles, Or, a Sequel to the Norman Conquest
Author: RosesClass List of the Books in the Reference Library
Author: Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Thistle and The Rose
Author: Linda PorterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1801105766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single most important Tudor figure of this era that historians have consistently overlooked. Married at thirteen to the charismatic James IV of Scotland, a man more than twice her age, she would learn the skills of statecraft that would enable her to survive his early death, and to construct a powerful position in her adopted country of Scotland as she dealt with domestic issues as well as navigating international relations with England and France. Often reviled for her hasty remarriage (and therefore the loss of the regency) the book shows that Margaret was damned if she did remarry and damned if she didn't. Her two subsequent marriages were both disastrous personally, but she never gave up. Her son attained the throne in his own right in 1528, largely through his mother's determination. Margaret's story is also one of fierce sibling rivalry with her younger brother, Henry VIII, a series of matrimonial mishaps, and fighting off an unearned reputation as an over-sexed whinger fixated by clothes and jewels, Margaret was a complex (not always likeable) woman who had the true Tudor attributes of self-expression and a flair for the dramatic. She knew that you had to look like a queen. Drawing on Margaret's extensive correspondence (more of her letters survive than of all the other Tudor queens put together), and contemporary poems and literature, Linda Porter fashions a compelling story of a misunderstood and underestimated Tudor monarch, whose determination to fight for the rights of her son, James V, is at the core of her dramatic life and indeed laid the groundwork for a future British state.
The Tablet
Author: Thistle Versus Rose
Author: Susan MorrisonPublisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 1473604931
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
'Ask a Scotsman for directions and he'll tell you which way to go. Ask an Englishman and he'll try to sell you a map.' Anon * It's 700 years since the Scots thrashed the English at Bannockburn. Has there ever been a better opportunity to celebrate seven centuries of winding up the English? Exploring everything from money, diet, war and weather to language, love and landscape, Thistle vs Rose is a hilarious miscellany of Anglo-Scots rivalry. Introduced by Susan Morrison, it features quotes, jokes and trivia from Robert Burns, Billy Connolly, Frankie Boyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Johnson and many, many others. * published alongside Albert Jack's rival Ebook 700 YEARS OF WINDING UP THE SCOTS (9781473605008)*
Thistle and Rose
Author: Annie BoutellePublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838750230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
By examining the poems chronologically and sympathetically and by exploring the relationship of language, formal dynamics, image, and theme, this study attempts to discover the essence of MacDiarmid's highly individual contribution to the poetry of this century.
Lives of the Queens of England
Author: Agnes StricklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II
Author: S.R. MeyrickThe Thistle
Author: Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest
Author: Mary Anne Everett Green [Geb. Wood]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Princes
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description