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Author : Lawrence L. Schoonover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780855948818
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Spider King written by Lawrence L. Schoonover and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence Schoonover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Spider King written by Lawrence Schoonover and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Murray Kendall
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781842124116
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Louis XI written by Paul Murray Kendall and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1423, the year that Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) was born, much of France was ruled by the English. To unify France after the Hundred Years War under his rule (I am France he would proclaim to his rebellious vassals) became the idee fixe of Louis' life. The manner in which he largely succeeded accomplishing this is the subject of this book
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Quentin Durward written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrianna E. Bakos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136191976
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Images of Kingship in Early Modern France written by Adrianna E. Bakos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XI, known as "The Spider King" because he wove many intricate plots, lives on in popular imagination primarily as a villain and a cruel, cunning, rather unscrupulous character. Absolutists fled to his banner whilst constitutionalists reviled him as a rapacious totalitarian murderer. In Images of Kingship in Early Modern France, Adrianna Bakos uses the changing nature of Louis XI's historical reputation to explore the intellectual and political climate of early modern France. Using Louis XI's historical reputation as a prism for fresh investigation, Adrianna Bakos offers new, more complex interpretations of the ideological landscape of early modern France. Images of Kingship in Early Modern France is an important contribution to European historiography and to debates on historical versus political interpretations of Kingship.
Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1920 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950-1977 written by R.R. Bowker Company and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1932 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977: Fiction. Juvenile fiction written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curtis Bill Pepper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0911469370
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Leonardo written by Curtis Bill Pepper and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling novel takes the reader into the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and the origins of Leonardo da Vinci, the bastard child of a notary. Of da Vinci, the eminent art historian Kenneth Clark wrote, “no more complex and mysterious character ever existed than this Hamlet of art history.” Clark noted that one had to be “familiar with all of Leonardo’s writings in their chronological order (and) the state of learning in the Renaissance to judge Leonardo’s progress in relation to that of his contemporaries.”This compelling novel takes the reader into the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and the origins of Leonardo da Vinci, the bastard child of a notary. Of da Vinci, the eminent art historian Kenneth Clark wrote, “no more complex and mysterious character ever existed than this Hamlet of art history.” Clark noted that one had to be “familiar with all of Leonardo’s writings in their chronological order (and) the state of learning in the Renaissance to judge Leonardo’s progress in relation to that of his contemporaries.”
Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Little Tour in France written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Penn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439191573
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Winter King written by Thomas Penn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd., 2011.
Author : Helena Avelar de Carvalho
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004463380
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book An Astrologer at Work in Late Medieval France written by Helena Avelar de Carvalho and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an internalist view on the history of astrology by studying the case of S. Belle, an astrologer who lived in late fifteenth-century France. It addresses his methods of work, his process of learning, and his practice.
Author : Paula Simonds Zabka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971769304
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Desire the Kingdom written by Paula Simonds Zabka and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Richard III of Shakespeare fame an evil hunchback? Did Richard III forcibly usurp the throne of England? What part did Richard III's Queen, Anne of Warwick, play in the assumption of the throne by Richard Plantagenet? Why did Richard III have his brother, the Duke of Clarence, drowned in a vat of wine? Did Richard III kill the princes in the tower? Why did Richard III make his fatal charge at Bosworth? These are some of the questions still being asked about the last Plantagenet King, Richard III, and answered in a unique historical novel, 'Desire the Kingdom' by Paula Simonds Zabka. Richard III, whose name is synonymous with villainy as depicted by Shakespeare, is presented in a different light. Holding to high principles of loyalty, he strives to support his king as he pursues his love for Anne. While confronting betrayals, insurrections and family strife, he continually fights his conscience after taking the throne, following the death of his brother and King, Edward IV. For Richard's Queen, Anne Neville, daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker, life becomes one of survival. As she struggles in her love for Richard, she becomes caught up in the desire of others to claim the throne of England by treachery, deceit and murder in the war between the Houses of York and Lancaster.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 3192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367857
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Author : Barry Jones
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760462195
Total Pages : 953 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of World Biography written by Barry Jones and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Jones? Dictionary of World Biography weaves historical facts with perspective on the subjects and the influence they had on theirs and on modern times. Gain a unique insight into the life and times of important identities, cultural icons and controversial characters.
Author : Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752401052
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers written by Lydia Hoyt Farmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Author : Philippe de Commynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Universal Spider written by Philippe de Commynes and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 'Memoirs' of Philippe de Commynes have been celebrated for more than four hundred years both as a remarkable literary work and as a priceless controbution to the history of the fifteenth century. They fall into two quite different parts. The first (comprising Books I-VI) narrates the intense, violent struggle for the dominance of western Europe between Louis XI of France and his greatest vassal, Charles the Rash, Duke of Burgundy, which was resolved by the triumph of the king; it begins with the appearance of Commynes on the political scene in 1464 as a young squire in the service of the House of Burgundy and ends in 1483 with the death of Louis XI, at which Commynes was himself present. In the second part (Books VII-VIII) he recounts the first French invation of Italy in 1494 under Louis XI's feeble son, Charles VIII. He took part in that ill-fated expedition, s a royal councillor and diplomat, and fought at Charles VIII's side in the desperate battle of Fornovo; but the chief adviser and confidant of Louis XI enjoyed little influence in King Charles' frivolous household. The 'Memoirs' conclude in 1498, following the death of Charles VIII, with Commynes' entering the service of that monarch's successor, Louis XII. It is the earlier, and much richer, part of the 'Memoirs' that is here translated." -- introduction, page 7.
