Medieval Royal Mistresses

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Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399081950
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Book Synopsis Medieval Royal Mistresses by : Julia A Hickey

Download or read book Medieval Royal Mistresses written by Julia A Hickey and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistresses were about love, lust and possession. It was a world that included kidnap, poison, murder, violation, public shaming and accusations of witchcraft. Ambition and quick wits as well as beauty were essential attributes for any royal mistress. Infamy, assassination and imprisonment awaited some royal mistresses who tumbled from favour while others disappeared into obscurity or respectable lives as married women and were quickly forgotten. Meet Nest of Wales, born in turbulent times, whose abduction started a war; Alice Perrers and Jane Shore labelled ‘whores’ and ‘wantons’; Katherine Swynford who turned the medieval world upside down with a royal happy-ever-after and Rosamund Clifford who left history and stepped into legend. Discover how serial royal womanisers married off their discarded mistresses to bind their allies close. Explore the semi-official roles of some mistresses; the illegitimate children who became kings; secret marriage ceremonies; Edith Forne Sigulfson and Lady Eleanor Talbot who sought atonement through religion as well as the aristocratic women who became the victims of royal lust. Most of the shameful women who shared the beds of medieval kings were silenced, besmirched or consigned to the footnotes of a patriarchal worldview but they negotiated paths between the private and public spheres of medieval court life - changing history as they went.

Publications

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Total Pages : 278 pages
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Download or read book Publications written by Ballad Society and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gothic Novel and the Stage

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319516
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Genesis Of A Music

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Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306801068
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Book Synopsis Genesis Of A Music by : Harry Partch

Download or read book Genesis Of A Music written by Harry Partch and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1979-08-22 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901–1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized cult of experience, and dichotomy of practical invention and transcendental visions. Having lived mostly in the remote deserts of Arizona and New Mexico with no access to formal training, Partch naturally created theatrical ritualistic works incorporating Indian chants, Japanese kabuki and Noh, Polynesian microtones, Balinese gamelan, Greek tragedy, dance, mime, and sardonic commentary on Hollywood and commercial pop music of modern civilization. First published in 1949, Genesis of a Music is the manifesto of Partch's radical compositional practice and instruments (which owe nothing to the 300-year-old European tradition of Western music.) He contrasts Abstract and Corporeal music, proclaiming the latter as the vital, emotionally tactile form derived from the spoken word (like Greek, Chinese, Arabic, and Indian musics) and surveys the history of world music at length from this perspective. Parts II, III, and IV explain Partch's theories of scales, intonation, and instrument construction with copious acoustical and mathematical documentation. Anyone with a musically creative attitude, whether or not familiar with traditional music theory, will find this book revelatory.

Edward III

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300178158
Total Pages : 758 pages
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Book Synopsis Edward III by : W. M. Ormrod

Download or read book Edward III written by W. M. Ormrod and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward III (1312-1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by his subjects as a chivalric dynamo, he initiated the Hundred Years' War and gloriously led his men into battle against the Scots and the French.In this illuminating biography, W. Mark Ormrod takes a deeper look at Edward to reveal the man beneath the military muscle. What emerges is Edward's clear sense of his duty to rebuild the prestige of the Crown, and through military gains and shifting diplomacy, to secure a legacy for posterity. New details of the splendor of Edward's court, lavish national celebrations, and innovative use of imagery establish the king's instinctive understanding of the bond between ruler and people. With fresh emphasis on how Edward's rule was affected by his family relationships--including his roles as traumatized son, loving husband, and dutiful father--Ormrod gives a valuable new dimension to our understanding of this remarkable warrior king.

Works

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Total Pages : 442 pages
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Scott's Rokeby

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Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Scott's Rokeby written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rokeby

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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Poems and Ballads

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Total Pages : 108 pages
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Defending Literature in Early Modern England

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426567
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Book Synopsis Defending Literature in Early Modern England by : Robert Matz

Download or read book Defending Literature in Early Modern England written by Robert Matz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? This book, first published in 2000, analyses Renaissance literary theory in the context of social transformations of the period, focusing on conflicting ideas about gentility that emerged as the English aristocracy evolved from a feudal warrior class to a civil elite. Through close readings centered on works by Thomas Elyot, Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, Matz argues that literature attempted to mediate a complex set of contradictory social expectations. His original study engages with important theoretical work such as Pierre Bourdieu's and offers a substantial critique of New Historicist theory. It challenges recent accounts of the power of Renaissance authorship, emphasizing the uncertain status of literature during this time of cultural change, and sheds light on why and how canonical works became canonical.

Waverley Novels

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Total Pages : 412 pages
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Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley. (vol. 14-16. Introductions and Notes and Illustrations.).

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Total Pages : 376 pages
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Waverley Novels

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Total Pages : 412 pages
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Waverly Novels

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Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book Waverly Novels written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction

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Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction written by Thomas Byerley and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.

The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine, & Museum of the Belles Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, &c

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Total Pages : 670 pages
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Complete Works

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Total Pages : 714 pages
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Book Synopsis Complete Works by : Sir Walter Scott

Download or read book Complete Works written by Sir Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: