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Castles, Customs, and Kings

Author : English Historical Fiction Authors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996264822
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Castles, Customs, and Kings written by English Historical Fiction Authors and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays from the second year of the English Historical Fiction Authors blog, this book transports the reader across the centuries from prehistoric to twentieth century Britain. Nearly fifty different authors share the stories, incidents, and insights discovered while doing research for their own historical novels. From medieval law and literature to Tudor queens and courtiers, from Stuart royals and rebels to Regency soldiers and social calls, experience the panorama of Britain's yesteryear. Explore the history behind the fiction, and discover the true tales surrounding Britain's castles, customs, and kings.

Castles, Customs, and Kings

Author : English Historical Fiction Authors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983671954
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Castles, Customs, and Kings written by English Historical Fiction Authors and published by . This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of essays from the English Historical Fiction Authors blog, this book provides a wealth of historical information from Roman Britain to early twentieth century England. Over fifty different authors share hundreds of real life stories and tantalizing tidbits discovered while doing research for their own historical novels. From Queen Boadicea's revolt to Tudor ladies-in-waiting, from Regency dining and dress to Victorian crime and technology, immerse yourself in the lore of Great Britain. Read the history behind the fiction and discover the true tales surrounding England's castles, customs, and kings.

Castles, Customs, and Kings

Author : English Historical Fiction Authors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996264815
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Castles, Customs, and Kings written by English Historical Fiction Authors and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays from the second year of the English Historical Fiction Authors blog, this book transports the reader across the centuries from prehistoric to twentieth century Britain. Nearly fifty different authors share the stories, incidents, and insights discovered while doing research for their own historical novels. From medieval law and literature to Tudor queens and courtiers, from Stuart royals and rebels to Regency soldiers and social calls, experience the panorama of Britain's yesteryear. Explore the history behind the fiction, and discover the true tales surrounding Britain's castles, customs, and kings.

The Castle of Kings

Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544317882
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Castle of Kings written by Oliver Pötzsch and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic standalone novel of historical fiction tinged with mystery, set against the backdrop of medieval Germany's Peasant War from the best-selling author of the Hangman’s Daughter series. In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the daughter of one of these overlords, but she is not a typical sixteenth-century girl, refusing to wear dresses and spending more time with her pet falcon than potential suitors. There is only one suitor she is interested in: Mathis, a childhood friend whom she can never marry due to his low birth status. In the midst of war, Agnes’s falcon finds a mysterious ring, and Agnes begins having strange but seemingly meaningful dreams. Dreams that lead her and Mathis to run away from their home in Trifels Castle and into the midst of the tumultuous Peasants’ War, cast into an adventure that will lead them to shocking revelations about themselves and the future of the emerging German states. “Pötzsch paints picturesque landscapes, whether it’s damp, dark castles, the stink of a medieval tannery, or whirlpool-plagued Rhine River rapids . . . Combine Princess Bride with Germanic history circa 1500, add a dash of Lord of the Rings, and there’s a week of good fun.” — Kirkus Reviews “The war scenes are grimly realistic, and the narration gripping . . . The author makes the fantastical elements work by harnessing them to the grim reality of the Peasants’ War, setting his far-fetched romance in an utterly convincing world of economic hardship, social strife and religious and political uncertainty.” — Wall Street Journal

Anglo-Norman Castles

Author : Robert Liddiard
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851159041
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Norman Castles written by Robert Liddiard and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging studies offer an in-depth analysis of castle-building 11th - 12th centuries and place castles within their broader social and political context. The castles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries remain among the most visible symbols of the Anglo-Norman world. This collection brings together for the first time some of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from experts in history, archaeology and historic buildings. Castles remain a controversial topic of academic debate and here equal weight is given to seminal articles that have defined the study of the subject while at the same time emphasising newer approaches to the fortresses of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy. The studies in this volume range from discussions of the residential and military role of the castle to architectural symbolismand royal attitudes to baronial fortification. The result is a survey that offers an in-depth analysis of castle-building during the eleventh and twelfth centuries but which also places Anglo-Norman castles within their broader social, architectural and political context. Contributors: ANN WILLIAMS, RICHARD EALES, DEREK RENN, LAWRENCE BUTLER, ROBERT HIGHAM, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, R.ALLEN BROWN, CHARLES COULSON, SIDNEY PAINTER, FREDERICK C. SUPPE, GRANT G. SIMPSON, BRUCE WEBSTER, J.R. KENYON, THOMAS McNEILL, T.A. HESLOP, PHILIP DIXON, PAMELA MARSHALL, JOHN BLAIR, CHARLES COULSON, ROBERT LIDDIARD

The Lost Duchess

Author : Jenny Barden
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448118913
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Duchess written by Jenny Barden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emme Fifield has fallen about as far as a gentlewoman can. Once a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, her only hope of surviving the scandal that threatens to engulf her is to escape England for a fresh start in the New World, where nobody has ever heard of the Duchess of Somerset. Emme joins Kit Doonan’s rag-tag band of idealists, desperados and misfits bound for Virginia. But such a trip will be far from easy and Emme finds her attraction to the mysterious Doonan inconvenient to say the least...

Castle of Shadows

Author : Ellen Renner
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547744463
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Castle of Shadows written by Ellen Renner and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Charlie embarks on a fantastical adventure to solve the mystery of the missing Queen and save her kingdom.

The Custom of the Castle

Author : Charles Ross
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520323629
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Custom of the Castle written by Charles Ross and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Price of Blood

Author : Patricia Bracewell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698164520
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Blood written by Patricia Bracewell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menaced by Vikings and enemies at court, Queen Emma defends her children and her crown in a riveting medieval adventure Readers first met Emma of Normandy in Patricia Bracewell’s gripping debut novel, Shadow on the Crown. Unwillingly thrust into marriage to England’s King Æthelred, Emma has given the king a son and heir, but theirs has never been a happy marriage. In The Price of Blood, Bracewell returns to 1006 when a beleaguered Æthelred, still haunted by his brother’s ghost, governs with an iron fist and a royal policy that embraces murder. As tensions escalate and enmities solidify, Emma forges alliances to protect her young son from ambitious men—even from the man she loves. In the north there is treachery brewing, and when Viking armies ravage England, loyalties are shattered and no one is safe from the sword. Rich with intrigue, compelling personalities, and fascinating detail about a little-known period in history, The Price of Blood will captivate fans of both historical fiction and fantasy novels such as George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.

Knight of Jerusalem

Author : Helena P. Schrader
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627871942
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Knight of Jerusalem written by Helena P. Schrader and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balian, the landless son of a local baron, goes to Jerusalem to seek his fortune. Instead, he finds himself trapped into serving the young prince suffering from leprosy, an apparent sentence to obscurity and death. But the unexpected death of King Amalric makes the leper boy King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, and Balian’s prospects begin to improve. The Byzantine princess Maria Comnena is just thirteen years old when she arrives in the Kingdom of Jerusalem at her great uncle’s orders to cement the alliance between the two Christian kingdoms in the East. The child wife of a man almost three times her own age, she is despite her excellent education and intelligence little more than a pretty doll in the eyes of her husband. When she fails to produce a male heir for the desperate king, her marriage becomes a gilded prison. Until suddenly the king is dead and Maria finds herself a wealthy widow at just twenty years of age. Meanwhile, the charismatic Kurdish leader Saladin has united the forces of Islam and vowed to drive the Christians into the sea. While King Baldwin IV—and Balian—struggle to save the Holy Land for Christendom by whatever means they can, the internal rivalries of Templars and Hospitallers, the advocates of offense and defense, and the bitter rivalries of barons threaten to tear the kingdom apart.

Knights and Castles

Author : Scott T. Walters
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
ISBN 13 : 1576907740
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Knights and Castles written by Scott T. Walters and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles

Author : Ella S. Armitage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles written by Ella S. Armitage and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who Was Queen Elizabeth I?

Author : June Eding
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780448448398
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Who Was Queen Elizabeth I? written by June Eding and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our bestselling series is fit for a queen! The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her father's court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five. A tough, intelligent woman who spoke five languages, Elizabeth ruled for over forty years and led England through one of its most prosperous periods in history. Over 80 illustrations bring 'Gloriana' and her court to life.

The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood III

Author : Christopher Harper-Bill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851152653
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood III written by Christopher Harper-Bill and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1990 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the first volume in this series, Christopher Allmand, writing in English Historical Review, said: Once again, a volume of papers published by the Boydell Press has made a useful interdisciplinary contribution to an important and difficult subject. Historians may read this book with profit.' But not only historians, for the contributions to these volumes are wide-ranging, and cover all aspects of culture in the middle ages, with a strong emphasis on continental literature.

The Midwife's Tale

Author : Sam Thomas
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250010772
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Midwife's Tale written by Sam Thomas and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes Samuel Thomas's remarkable debut, The Midwife's Tale It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget's friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer. Bridget joins forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who's far more skilled with a knife than any respectable woman ought to be. To save Esther from the stake, they must dodge rebel artillery, confront a murderous figure from Martha's past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. The investigation takes Bridget and Martha from the homes of the city's most powerful families to the alleyways of its poorest neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther's murdered husband, they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand in hand.

William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England

Author : William (of Malmesbury)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England written by William (of Malmesbury) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture and Customs of Ethiopia

Author : Solomon Addis Getahun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313086060
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Customs of Ethiopia written by Solomon Addis Getahun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal resource for anyone interested in learning about Ethiopia, this accessible, single-volume work provides all-encompassing and up-to-date coverage of the ancient and diverse cultures of Africa's second-most populated nation. Explore the fascinating culture of Ethiopia, a highly diverse nation built on the foundations of ancient kingdoms—truly a melting pot of traditions from Africa as well as other continents. With increasing freedom of speech and growing access to technology, Ethiopians are better able—and more eager—than ever to share ideas, art, and information not only with each other, but with the rest of the world. This detailed volume offers readers informed perspectives on one of the world's oldest populations, covering its long-ago history as well as its evolution in the 21st century. Readers will discover Ethiopa's collection of written and oral stories, unique art and architecture inspired by royalty and religion, delicious cuisine, and many forms of music, dress, and dance. The book's chapters also describe important changes in Ethiopia's social customs, prevalent attitudes regarding women, and the nation's historically oppressive political system.