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Book Synopsis The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509 by : James Gairdner
Download or read book The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509 written by James Gairdner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paston Letters, voicing the personal and political concerns of one Norfolk family, illuminate one of England's most tumultuous times.
Book Synopsis The Paston Letters 1422-1509 by : James Gairdner
Download or read book The Paston Letters 1422-1509 written by James Gairdner and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nevills of Middleham by : K.L. Clark
Download or read book The Nevills of Middleham written by K.L. Clark and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1465, the Nevills must have thought they'd reached the pinnacle of power and influence in England. Richard Nevill was the king's right-hand man and married to the richest woman in the kingdom; John Nevill was an accomplished soldier who'd done much to stabilise the new dynasty; and George Nevill was not only chancellor but newly enthroned as Archbishop of York. The Nevill women were as active as their male counterparts. As sisters and wives, daughters and daughters-in-laws, they had the ears of the elite in England and were not afraid of wielding their influence. And they were not always on the same side. Cracks in the stability of the most powerful family in England began to show. Rivalries led to serious conflict that worsened when King Edward IV impulsively married Elizabeth Wydeville, a choice of bride that did not please everyone. The Nevills had already lost a great deal for the Yorkist cause. Within six years, as the Wars of the Roses turned into one of the bloodiest periods of English history, they'd lose even more for the Lancastrians.
Download or read book The Paston Women written by Diane Watt and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing.
Book Synopsis De la Pole, Father and Son by : Michèle Schindler
Download or read book De la Pole, Father and Son written by Michèle Schindler and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh take on the Wars of the Roses and the establishment of the Tudor Dynasty through the actions of two of the most powerful figures of the age - father and son.
Book Synopsis The Castle in the Wars of the Roses by : Dan Spencer
Download or read book The Castle in the Wars of the Roses written by Dan Spencer and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study of medieval warfare examines the vital role of castles during the English civil wars of the 15th century. The Wars of the Roses comprise one of the most fascinating periods in medieval history. Much has been written about the leading personalities, bitter dynastic rivalries, political intrigues, and the rapid change of fortune on the battlefields of England and Wales. However, there is one aspect that has been often overlooked, the role of castles in the conflict. Dan Spencer’s original study traces the use of castles from the outbreak of civil war in the 1450s during the reign of Henry VI to the triumph of Henry VII some thirty years later. Using a wide range of narrative, architectural, financial, and administrative sources, Spencer sheds new light on the place of castles within the conflict, demonstrating their importance as strategic and logistical centers, bases for marshaling troops, and as fortresses.
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lovell our Dogge by : Michèle Schindler
Download or read book Lovell our Dogge written by Michèle Schindler and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the Wars of the Roses to centre on Richard III`s closest friend, Sir Francis Lovell.
Book Synopsis The Paston Letters: 1422-1509 A.D. A Reprint of the Edition of 1872-5, which Contained Upwards of Five Hundred Letters, Etc., Till Then Unpublished, to which are Now Added Others in a Supplement After the Introduction: Edward IV by : James Gairdner
Download or read book The Paston Letters: 1422-1509 A.D. A Reprint of the Edition of 1872-5, which Contained Upwards of Five Hundred Letters, Etc., Till Then Unpublished, to which are Now Added Others in a Supplement After the Introduction: Edward IV written by James Gairdner and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Kingmaker's Women by : Julia A Hickey
Download or read book The Kingmaker's Women written by Julia A Hickey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Earl of Warwick's wife Anne Beauchamp and their daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville. They were supposed to be pious, fruitful and submissive. The wealthiest women in the kingdom, Anne Beauchamp and her daughters were at the heart of bitter inheritance disputes. Well educated and extravagant, they lived in style and splendour but were forced to navigate their lives around the unpredictable clashes of the Cousins’ War. Were they pawns or did they exert an influence of their own? The twists and turns of Fate as well as the dynastic ambitions of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick saw Isabel married without royal permission to the Yorkist heir presumptive, George Duke of Clarence. Anne Neville was married to Edward of Lancaster, the only son of King Henry VI when her father turned his coat. One or the other was destined to become queen. Even so, the Countess of Warwick, heiress to one of the richest titles in England, could not avoid being declared legally dead so that her sons-in-law could take control of her titles and estates. Tragic Isabel, beloved by her husband, would experience the dangers of childbirth and on her death, her midwife was accused of witchcraft and murder. Her children both faced a traitor’s death because of their Plantagenet blood. Anne Neville became the wife of Richard, Duke of Gloucester having survived a forced march, widowhood and the ambitions of Isabel’s husband. When Gloucester took the throne as Richard III, she would become Shakespeare’s tragic queen. The women behind the myth suffered misfortune and loss but fulfilled their domestic duties in the brutal world they inhabited and fought by the means available to them for what they believed to be rightfully their own. The lives of Countess Anne and her daughters have much to say about marriage, childbirth and survival of aristocratic women in the fifteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Woodville Women by : Sarah J. Hodder
Download or read book The Woodville Women written by Sarah J. Hodder and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Woodville, queen to Edward IV and mother of the Princes in the Tower. Elizabeth of York, daughter of Elizabeth Woodville and the first Tudor queen of England. Elizabeth Grey, granddaughter of Elizabeth Woodville and Countess of Kildare, whose life both in England and across the Irish sea was closely entwined with the Tudor Court. This is the tale of three generations of women, linked by their name, Elizabeth, and by their family relationship. The story begins in the reign of the great Plantagenet Kings with the life of Elizabeth Woodville and ends in the reign of perhaps England’s most famous dynasty, that of the Tudor kings and queens. Through the life of Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor queen and Elizabeth Grey, cousin to Henry VIII and Mary Tudor, we explore the Tudor court and its dealings with the Earls of Kildare. From the birth of our first Elizabeth to the death of our last, these three women lived through wars and coronations, births and deaths, celebration and tragedy and between them they experienced some of the most exciting and troubled times in English history. Mother, daughter and granddaughter: individually they each have their own fascinating story to tell; together their combined stories take us on a journey through a century of English life.
Book Synopsis A History of France from the Death of Louis XI by : John Seargeant Cyprian Bridge
Download or read book A History of France from the Death of Louis XI written by John Seargeant Cyprian Bridge and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 by : Catherine Richardson
Download or read book Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 written by Catherine Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the subject of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and politics, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 provides a springboard into one of the most fascinating yet least understood aspects of social and cultural history. Nowhere in medieval and early modern European society was its hierarchical and social divisions more obviously reflected than in the sphere of clothing. Indeed, one of the few constant themes of writers, chroniclers, diarists and commentators from Chaucer to Pepys was the subject of fashion and clothes. Whether it was lauding the magnificence of court, warning against the vanity of fashion, describing the latest modes, or decrying the habit of the lower orders to ape the dress of their social superiors, people throughout history have been fascinated by the symbolism, power and messages that clothes can project. Yet despite this contemporary interest, clothing as a subject of historical enquiry has been a largely neglected field of academic study. Whilst it has been discussed in relation to various disciplines, it has not in many cases found a place as a central topic of analysis in its own right. The essays presented in this volume form part of a growing recent trend to put fashion and clothing back into the centre ground of historical research. From Russia to Rome, Ireland to France, this volume contains a wealth of examples of the numerous ways clothing was shaped by, and helped to shape, medieval and early modern European society. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the study of clothing can illuminate other facets of life and why it deserves to be treated as a central, rather than peripheral, facet of European history.
Book Synopsis The Athenaeum by : James Silk Buckingham
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medieval Texts in Context by : Graham D. Caie
Download or read book Medieval Texts in Context written by Graham D. Caie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the texts provide clues to the ‘manuscript experience’. Topics such as scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership, reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.
Book Synopsis English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550 by : Barbara Jean Harris
Download or read book English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550 written by Barbara Jean Harris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England.
Book Synopsis Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century by : Norman Davis
Download or read book Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century written by Norman Davis and published by Early English Text Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with corrections, of the volume originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1971.
