King's Fool

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Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 145663643X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Book Synopsis King's Fool by : Margaret Campbell Barnes

Download or read book King's Fool written by Margaret Campbell Barnes and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Remarkably Intimate Tale of the Intrigue, Ruthlessness, and Majesty of Henry VIII's Court. When country lad Will Somers lands himself the plum position of jester to the mercurial King Henry VIII, he has no idea that he's just been handed a front-row seat to history. With a seat near the throne and an ear to the floor, Somers witnesses firsthand the dizzying power struggles and sly scheming that marked the reign of the fiery Tudor king. Somers watches the rise and fall of some of the most enigmatic women in history, including the tragic Katherine of Aragon, the doomed Anne Boleyn, and Mary Tudor, who confided in the jester as she made the best of the fragile life of a princess whom everyone wished was a prince. Based on the life of the real Will Somers, King's Fool is infused with Margaret Campbell Barnes' trademark rich detail and historical accuracy. This intimate peek into the royal chambers gives readers a unique view on one of the most tumultuous periods in English history. First published in 1959 by world-renowned historical novelist Margaret Campbell Barnes, King's Fool is a remarkable insider tale of the intrigue, ruthlessness, and majesty of the Tudor court. When country lad Will Somers lands himself the plum position of jester to the mercurial King Henry VIII, he has no idea that he's just been handed a front-row seat to history.

Disability and the Tudors

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Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526720078
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Disability and the Tudors by : Phillipa Vincent Connolly

Download or read book Disability and the Tudors written by Phillipa Vincent Connolly and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society support the disabled amongst them? For centuries, disabled people and their history have been overlooked - hidden in plain sight. Very little on the infirm and mentally ill was written down during the renaissance period. The Tudor period is no exception and presents a complex, unparalleled story. The sixteenth century was far from exemplary in the treatment of its infirm, but a multifaceted and ambiguous story emerges, where society’s ‘natural fools’ were elevated as much as they were belittled. Meet characters like William Somer, Henry VIII’s fool at court, whom the king depended upon, and learn of how the dissolution of the monasteries contributed to forming an army of ‘sturdy beggars’ who roamed Tudor England without charitable support. From the nobility to the lowest of society, Phillipa Vincent-Connolly casts a light on the lives of disabled people in Tudor England and guides us through the social, religious, cultural, and ruling classes’ response to disability as it was then perceived.

The King's Fool

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Publisher : Dutton Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 9780525450740
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis The King's Fool by : Dana Fradon

Download or read book The King's Fool written by Dana Fradon and published by Dutton Childrens Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of fools or jesters in medieval and Renaissance society and describes such individuals as Will Sommers of sixteenth-century England and Querno of sixteenth-century Italy.

King of Fools

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488034281
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis King of Fools by : Amanda Foody

Download or read book King of Fools written by Amanda Foody and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To survive in the City of Sin, an innocent girl must choose her new identity in this dark YA fantasy—the sequel to Ace of Shades. Indulge your vices in the City of Sin, where a sinister street war is brewing and fame is the deadliest killer of them all. Prim and proper Enne Salta never expected to team up with an infamous con man like Levi Glaiyser. But winning the Shadow Game was not the victory they imagined. Now the duo are wanted for murder and Enne is forced to live in disguise as Séance, a mysterious figure of the underworld. Desperate to build his empire, Levi makes a deal with the estranged son of Mafia donna Vianca Augustine, while Enna remains trapped by Vianca’s binding oath, unsure whether to embrace the role of refined lady or cunning street lord. As they walk a path of unimaginable wealth, a dangerous game of crime and politics swirls around them. And when unforeseen players enter, they must each make an impossible choice: sacrifice everything . . . Or die as legends.

Fools Are Everywhere

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226640914
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Book Synopsis Fools Are Everywhere by : Beatrice K. Otto

Download or read book Fools Are Everywhere written by Beatrice K. Otto and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history—the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, from the courts of ancient China and the Mogul emperors of India to those of medieval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. With a wealth of anecdotes, jokes, quotations, epigraphs, and illustrations (including flip art), Otto brings to light little-known jesters, highlighting their humanizing influence on people with power and position and placing otherwise remote historical figures in a more idiosyncratic, intimate light. Most of the work on the court jester has concentrated on Europe; Otto draws on previously untranslated classical Chinese writings and other sources to correct this bias and also looks at jesters in literature, mythology, and drama. Written with wit and humor, Fools Are Everywhere is the most comprehensive look at these roguish characters who risked their necks not only to mock and entertain but also to fulfill a deep and widespread human and social need.

The History of Court Fools

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Court Fools by : John Doran

Download or read book The History of Court Fools written by John Doran and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fortune's Fool

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Publisher : LUNA
ISBN 13 : 1426814828
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis Fortune's Fool by : Mercedes Lackey

Download or read book Fortune's Fool written by Mercedes Lackey and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is more than a pampered princess-she's also the family spy. Which makes her the perfect emissary to check out interesting happenings in the neighboring kingdom…and nothing interests her more than Sasha, the seventh son of the king of Belrus. Ekaterina suspects he's far from the fool people think him. But before she can find out what lies beneath his facade, she is kidnapped! Trapped in a castle at the mercy of a possessive Jinn, Ekaterina knows her chances of being found are slim. Now fortune, a fool and a paper bird are the only things she can count on-along with her own clever mind and intrepid heart.…

The King's Fool

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ISBN 13 : 9780733318863
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (188 download)

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Book Synopsis The King's Fool by : Amanda Holohan

Download or read book The King's Fool written by Amanda Holohan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there's one thing that Perry Brightfield has learned in her fifteen years of life, it's that kids can smell a freak. Perry has no home and no parents. Her guardian Jurd says she's not from this world at all. Now, cast into a land terrorised by the evil Collector of Children, Perry Brightfield is about to discover just how different she really is ...

Fools and idiots?

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996181
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Fools and idiots? by : Irina Metzler

Download or read book Fools and idiots? written by Irina Metzler and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, it considers a neglected field of social and medical history and makes an original contribution to the problem of a shifting concept such as 'idiocy'. Medieval physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped medieval definitions of intellectual ability and its counterpart, disability. In studying such texts, which form part of our contemporary scientific and cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of which people were considered to be intellectually disabled and how their participation and inclusion in society differed from the situation today.

The King's Fool

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Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 9780857058249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (582 download)

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Book Synopsis The King's Fool by : Mahi Binebine

Download or read book The King's Fool written by Mahi Binebine and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the final year of the twentieth century and King Sidi is dying . . . Mohamed has been the king's fool for thirty-five year, his closest counsel, privy to his deepest secrets and most intimate thoughts. It is an honoured position for which many would pay a hefty price. Something Mohamed understands only too well, for this closeness has indeed come at a terrible cost. The threat of imprisonment looms, even as the once-mighty monarch draws his final breaths. In the last days of this all-powerful tyrant of the twentieth century, his faithful court fool takes stock of the decades he spent in the Moroccan king's service. For the many years of corrosive love and loyalty have left certain indelible wounds . . . Translated from the French by Ben Faccini

The Autobiography of Henry VIII

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429924705
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis The Autobiography of Henry VIII by : Margaret George

Download or read book The Autobiography of Henry VIII written by Margaret George and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of Henry VIII is the magnificent historical novel that established Margaret George's career. Evocatively written in the first person as Henry VIII's private journals, the novel was the product of fifteen years of meticulous research and five handwritten drafts. Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute. Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII's story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent comments from his jester and confident, Will Somers. Brilliantly combining history, wit, dramatic narrative, and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, this monumental novel shows us Henry the man more vividly than he has ever been seen before.

The King's Fool

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ISBN 13 : 9780848807818
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis The King's Fool by : Margaret C. Barnes

Download or read book The King's Fool written by Margaret C. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Queen's fool

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ISBN 13 : 9780007850938
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Queen's fool by : Philippa Gregory

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Henry VIII

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Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307415473
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Henry VIII by : Alison Weir

Download or read book Henry VIII written by Alison Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Wolf Hall, Alison Weir’s New York Times bestselling biography of Henry VIII brilliantly brings to life the king, the court, and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures and rewards. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir’s Mary Boleyn. Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power, celebrated for his intellect, presided over the most stylish—and dangerous—court in Renaissance Europe. Scheming cardinals vied for power with newly rich landowners and merchants, brilliant painters and architects introduced a new splendor into art and design, and each of Henry's six queens brought her own influence to bear upon the life of the court. In her new book, Alison Weir, author of the finest royal chronicles of our time, brings to vibrant life the turbulent, complex figure of Henry VIII and the glittering court he made his own. In an age when a monarch's domestic and political lives were inextricably intertwined, a king as powerful and brilliant as Henry VIII exercised enormous sway over the laws, the customs, and the culture of his kingdom. Yet as Weir shows in this swift, vivid narrative, Henry's ministers, nobles, and wives were formidable figures in their own right, whose influence both enhanced and undermined the authority of the throne. On a grand stage rich in pageantry, intrigue, passion, and luxury, Weir records the many complex human dramas that swirled around Henry, while deftly weaving in an account of the intimate rituals and desires of England's ruling class—their sexual practices, feasts and sports, tastes in books and music, houses and gardens. Stimulating and tumultuous, the court of Henry VIII attracted the finest minds and greatest beauties in Renaissance England—poets Wyatt and Surrey, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, "feasting ladies" like Elizabeth Blount and Elizabeth FitzWalter, the newly rich Boleyn family and the ancient aristocratic clans like the Howards and the Percies, along with the entourages and connections that came and went with each successive wife. The interactions between these individuals, and the terrible ends that befell so many of them, make Henry VIII: The King and His Court an absolutely spellbinding read. Meticulous in historic detail, narrated with high style and grand drama, Alison Weir brilliantly brings to life the king, the court, and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures and rewards. NOTE: This edition does not contain illustrations.

The History of Court Fools

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Total Pages : 412 pages
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Book Synopsis The History of Court Fools by : John Doran

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The Princess and The Fool

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781508545521
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Princess and The Fool written by Paul Neafcy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What are we going to do?" "Something very foolish." Princess Katherine of Elderhaime is engaged to be married to a man she's never met. Frankly, she's a bit hacked off about it, but things are about to get a whole lot worse. Katherine finds herself lost in the wilderness of an ancient, war torn world. With only her court Jester for protection, she races through a not-so-magical kingdom populated by swashbuckling heroes, sinister villains, witches, kings, ninja children and nightmarish creatures. Nothing in this world is as it seems, including her foolish companion. Pursued by outlaws and monsters, Katherine will be forced to decide between her hopes of true love and the chance for peace for her troubled land. So, y'know, no pressure... The Princess and the Fool is a thrilling adventure dealing with duty, destiny, desire, danger and derring-do. A fairy tale with an irreverent sense of humour, a heart full of hope and a talking puppet.

King Lear

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis King Lear by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: