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Medieval Intrigue

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441160493
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Intrigue written by Ian Mortimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399 and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender. Central to this book is his ground-breaking approach to medieval evidence. He explains how an information-based method allows a more certain reading of a series of texts. He criticises existing modes of arriving at consensus and outlines a process of historical analysis that ultimately leads to questioning historical doubts as well as historical facts, with profound implications for what we can say about the past with certainty. This is an important work from one of the most original and popular medieval historians writing today.

Medieval Intrigue

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847065899
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Intrigue written by Ian Mortimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Usurpers, A New Look at Medieval Kings

Author : Michele Morrical
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 152677951X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Usurpers, A New Look at Medieval Kings written by Michele Morrical and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of six usurper kings of England, and the people and circumstances surrounding them, is “a masterpiece of academic scholarship” (Midwest Book Review). In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy—and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England’s reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some of the most infamous usurper kings to come out of medieval England include William the Conqueror, Stephen of Blois, Henry Bolingbroke, Edward IV, Richard III, and Henry Tudor. Did these kings really deserve the title of usurper, or were they unfairly vilified by royal propaganda and biased chroniclers? This book examines the lives of these six medieval kings, the circumstances that brought each of them to power, and whether or not they deserve the title of usurper. Along the way readers will hear stories of some of the most fascinating people of medieval Europe, including Empress Matilda, the woman who nearly succeeded at becoming the first ruling Queen of England; Eleanor of Aquitaine, the queen of both France and England, who stirred her own sons to rebel against their father, Henry II; Richard II, whose cruel and vengeful reign caused his own family to overthrow him; Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou, Richard of York, and Edward IV, who struggled for power during the Wars of the Roses; the notorious Richard III and his monstrous reputation as a child-killer; and Henry VII, who rose from relative obscurity to establish the most famous royal family of all time: the Tudors.

Fourteenth Century England

Author : James Bothwell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271221
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Fourteenth Century England written by James Bothwell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles showcasing the fruits of the most recent scholarship in the field of fourteenth-century studies.

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439112908
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England written by Ian Mortimer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in hardback by Simon & Schuster in 2010; originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2008.

Palace Intrigue

Author : Lina J. Potter
Publisher : Medieval Tale
ISBN 13 : 9781717741837
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Palace Intrigue written by Lina J. Potter and published by Medieval Tale. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She suddenly wished that her medical school had offered a course on the art of intrigue... What seemed to be just an accident now carries an ugly and poisonous truth inside. Time to lift the veil. Aliya, now Countess Lillian Elizabeth Mariella Earton and wife to the Earl of Earton, is trying to uncover the truth behind Lillian's miscarriage and the unhappy course of her marriage. How many enemies does Lilian have? And what do they want of her? King Edward's interest in the estate of Earton - once collapsing, now prospering - has sparked. He invited Lilian to come to the Royal Palace in spring. Aliya prepares to travel with only one thought in the back of her mind: will she be able to persuade King Edward with her gifts and obtain his permission to continue to develop her business empire as a woman? She has to become an integral part of Edward's kingdom, so much so that removing her would cause great damage to the rest of the structure. No guts, no glory. Otherwise, she won't survive, especially with a husband who could exercise total control over her life.In the meantime, Jess, the Earl of Earton, while travelling with the Royal delegation, becomes increasingly disturbed as amassing reports of his wife's undertakings reach him via the King's letters. Is Lilian doing all of this by herself or is someone else behind it, telling her what to do? Afterall, she is just a woman. To make matters worse, Jess' cunning mistress Adele is still plotting to eliminate both Miranda and Lilian.Palace Intrigue is the third book in the Medieval Tale series by Lina J. Potter. The plot twists as Lilian's story becomes of interest to neighboring kingdoms. Aliya keeps on winning the trust and hearts of Eveers, Virmans and Khangans and now the King of Wellster sees a powerful ally in the Countess as the struggle for power commences!

Medieval Mysteries: Unraveling Enigmas of the Dark Ages

Author : George Wilton
Publisher : Az Boek
ISBN 13 : 6256315197
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Mysteries: Unraveling Enigmas of the Dark Ages written by George Wilton and published by Az Boek. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovery The Medieval Mysteries: Unraveling Enigmas of the Dark Ages

Women and Power in the Middle Ages

Author : Mary Erler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820323810
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Women and Power in the Middle Ages written by Mary Erler and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such portrayals, Women and Power in the Middle Ages reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.

Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation

Author : Brian Patrick McGuire
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271046808
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation written by Brian Patrick McGuire and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography of the noted French philosopher and theologian Jean Gerson, the first since 1929, Brian Patrick McGuire presents a compelling portrait of Gerson as a voice of reason and Christian humanism during a time of great intellectual and social tumult in the late Middle Ages. Born to a peasant father and mother in the county of Champagne, Gerson (1363-1429) was the first of twelve children. He overcame his modest beginnings to become a scholastic and vernacular theologian, a university intellectual, and a church reformer. McGuire shows us the turning points in Gerson's life, including his crisis of faith after becoming chancellor of the University of Paris in 1395. Through these key moments, we see the deeper undercurrents of his mystical writings. With their rich display of spiritual and emotional life, these writings were to earn Gerson the appellation "doctor christianissimus." In turn, they would influence many later thinkers, including Nicholas of Cusa, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis de Sales, and even Martin Luther. Gerson is a man perhaps easier to admire than to love: conscientious to a fault, at once a pragmatist and an idealist in church politics, a university intellectual who both fostered and distrusted the religious aspirations of the laity, a powerful prelate who moved among the great yet never forgot his peasant origins, a self-revealing yet intensely private man who yearned for intimacy almost as much as he feared it. McGuire ably situates Gerson in the context of his age, an age replete with doctrinal controversies and the politics of papal schism on the eve of the Protestant Reformation. Gerson emerges as a proponent of dialogue and discussion, committed to reforming the church from within. His courageous effort to renew the unity of a unique civilization bears examination in our own time.

Edward I's Granddaughters

Author : Louise Wyatt
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399006711
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Edward I's Granddaughters written by Louise Wyatt and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward I and his offspring, especially Edward II, are not shrouded by the mists of time. Edward I’s two sons and daughter by his second marriage are lesser known, especially the eldest, Thomas Plantagenet of Brotherton. He made no particular impression on history, despite being Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal, but Thomas did father three children. Of these, only one is usually remembered: Margaret of Norfolk. Indomitable, defiant, respected and fiercely intelligent, she defied her cousin Edward III more than once and outlived most of her family. Her brother Edward of Norfolk died young but her sister, Alice of Norfolk, survived childhood. But not for long. In 1338, by the time she was fourteen, Alice was married to Sir Edward Montagu, younger brother of the famous earl of Salisbury, William Montagu and Bishop of Ely, Simon Montagu. Edward was a warrior knight at Crecy, involved in the wars with Scotland, loyal to his brother and his king. The marriage produced five children within a decade, but by 1350 Edward Montagu was showing his dark side and was part of the knightly criminal gangs that terrorized local areas. One day in June 1351, Alice of Norfolk paid the price. Despite being a Plantagenet, daughter of an earl, granddaughter, niece and cousin to kings, Alice of Norfolk has mostly been forgotten. Even looking at contemporary records, Alice hardly features apart from land and property dealings with her husband. A dusty reference to the unfortunate circumstances of her death marks the end of her life and one which will more than likely remain a mystery.

Ticket to Intrigue

Author : Alan T. Cowood
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1553691431
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Ticket to Intrigue written by Alan T. Cowood and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One small, seemingly insignificant event turns the quiet, well-ordered life of Paul Brett upside down. His curiosity leads him to take dangerous chances while trying to find a missing man and solve a puzzling note. His powers of reason and his courage are tested on a number of occasions. His good fortune in teaming up with a very smart woman will ultimately bring successs to this very unusual adventure.

The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom: Volume 2, The Changing Constitution

Author : Peter Cane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009277065
Total Pages : 991 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom: Volume 2, The Changing Constitution written by Peter Cane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Long Live the King

Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750983272
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Long Live the King written by Kathryn Warner and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to an Italian hermitage. In Long Live the King, medieval historian Kathryn Warner explores in detail Edward's downfall and forced abdication in 1326/27, the role possibly played by his wife Isabella of France, the wide variation in chronicle accounts of his murder at Berkeley Castle and the fascinating possibility that Edward lived on in Italy for many years after his official funeral was held in Gloucester in December 1327.

Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Author : Alex Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198851421
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare written by Alex Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam and Eve. This book explores how inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The writing composed during this period was the product of what the historian Georges Duby has called a 'society of heirs', in which inheritance functioned as a key instrument of social reproduction, acting to ensure that existing structures of status, wealth, familial power, political influence, and gender relations were projected from the present into the future. In poetry, prose, and drama--in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Canterbury Tales; in Spenser's Faerie Queene; in plays by Shakespeare such as Macbeth, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice; and in a host of other works--we encounter a range of texts that attests to the extraordinary imaginative reach of questions of inheritance between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Moving between the late medieval and early modern periods, Imagining Inheritance examines this body of writing in order to argue that an exploration of the ways in which premodern inheritance was imagined can make legible the deep structures of power that modernity wants to forget.

Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610

Author : Mary Ann Lyons
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0861933338
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610 written by Mary Ann Lyons and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the various dimensions - political, social and economic - to the evolution of Franco-Irish relations in the early modern period.

To Catch the Conscience of the King

Author : Martin White
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326553992
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book To Catch the Conscience of the King written by Martin White and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Catch the Conscience of the King" is set against the background of King Edward II's downfall and is told from the perspective of Brother Stephen, who, as the king's confessor, sets out to save the royal soul, but instead places his own in jeopardy.

Ashes To Ashes

Author : Mel Starr
Publisher : Lion Fiction
ISBN 13 : 1782641343
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Ashes To Ashes written by Mel Starr and published by Lion Fiction. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Hugh, Kate, and their children attend the Midsummer's Eve fire. Next morning early Hugh hears the passing bell ring from the Church of St. Beornwald, and moments later is summoned. Tenants collecting the ashes to spread upon their fields have found burned bones. Master Hugh learns of several men of Bampton and nearby villages who have gone missing recently. Most are soon found, some alive, some dead. Master Hugh eventually learns that the bones are those of a bailiff from a nearby manor. Someone has slain him and placed his body in the fire to destroy evidence of murder. Bailiffs are not popular men; they dictate labour service, collect rents, and enforce other obligations. Has this bailiff died at the hand of some angry tenant? Hugh soon discovers this is not the case. There is quite another reason for murder ...