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Coronation Wives

Author : Lizzie Lane
Publisher : Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1804158968
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Coronation Wives written by Lizzie Lane and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bristol - 1953 It’s Coronation Year. A new beginning in the aftermath of war, but there are still battles to be fought and secrets to be kept. Charlotte Hennessey-White copes with the shortcomings of her marriage and throws herself into helping refugees unwelcome by some and exploited by others. Edna Burbage has three beautiful children and considers herself lucky until the advent of a deadly twentieth century disease makes her think otherwise. Polly Chandler still hopes for a better life, but there are too many obstacles standing in her way. These three women lived through a war, can they now cope with the demands of peace? Praise for Lizzie Lane: 'A gripping saga and a storyline that will keep you hooked' Rosie Goodwin 'The Tobacco Girls is another heartwarming tale of love and friendship and a must-read for all saga fans.' Jean Fullerton 'Lizzie Lane opens the door to a past of factory girls, redolent with life-affirming friendship, drama, and choices that are as relevant today as they were then.' Catrin Collier 'If you want an exciting, authentic historical saga then look no further than Lizzie Lane.' Fenella J Miller

Coronation Wives

Author : Lizzie Lane
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448147794
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Coronation Wives written by Lizzie Lane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1953. Coronation Year. While Bristol is still recovering from the aftermath of the war, three very different women are counting the cost. Polly longs for an easier, more glamorous life, but with her irrepressible young daughter and her charming – if scheming – husband, will things improve? Charlotte is trying to forget her illicit wartime romance and accept the shortcomings of her marriage. And Edna is desperate to protect her young family, even if it means keeping secrets...

The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII

Author : Amy Licence
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445633795
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII written by Amy Licence and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the six wives of Henry VIII from the viewpoint of the women themselves

A description of the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of France ... A new edition

Author : Nicolas MENIN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A description of the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of France ... A new edition written by Nicolas MENIN and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scenarios of Power

Author : Richard S. Wortman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849691
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Scenarios of Power written by Richard S. Wortman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and abridged edition of Scenarios of Power is a concise version of Richard Wortman's award-winning study of Russian monarchy from the seventeenth century until 1917. The author breaks new ground by showing how imperial ceremony and imagery were not simply displays of the majesty of the sovereign and his entourage, but also instruments central to the exercise of absolute power in a multinational empire. In developing this interpretation, Wortman presents vivid descriptions of coronations, funerals, parades, trips through the realm, and historical celebrations and reveals how these ceremonies were constructed or reconstructed to fit the political and cultural narratives in the lives and reigns of successive tsars. He describes the upbringing of the heirs as well as their roles in these narratives and relates their experiences to the persistence of absolute monarchy in Russia long after its demise in Europe.

The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Author : Elizabeth D. Carney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429783981
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World written by Elizabeth D. Carney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers, wives, and daughters of kings; regnant and co-regnant women; role in cult and in dynastic image; and examines a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts, this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy, that they were part of, not apart from it, and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity.

The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development

Author : William Stubbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development written by William Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Author : Isabel De Madariaga
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317881893
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia by : Isabel De Madariaga

Download or read book Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia written by Isabel De Madariaga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of thirteen major essays on eighteenth-century Russia by one of the most distinguished Western historians. They illustrate and explore three major themes: the development of the Russian state and Russian society, in the years when Russia was changing from a minor power on the European periphery to a major actor on the continental stage; the influence of western ideas and western thought on Russian politics and culture; and the impact of the Enlightenment on Russia. This is a substantial contribution not just to the history of Russia, but to early modern Europe generally.

Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

Author : Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108801277
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia written by Paul Bushkovitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revisionist history of the transfer of the tsar's power in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of the fifteenth century to Peter the Great, overturns generations of scholarship to argue that legal primogeniture never existed: the monarch designated an heir that was usually the eldest son only by custom, not by law.

Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006)

Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351681583
Total Pages : 2033 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006) by : Margaret Schaus

Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006) written by Margaret Schaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 2033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE. This reference work provides a comprehensive understanding of many aspects of medieval women and gender, such as art, economics, law, literature, sexuality, politics, philosophy and religion, as well as the daily lives of ordinary women. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Additional up-to-date bibliographies have been included for the 2016 reprint. Written by renowned international scholars and easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be a valuable resource on women in Medieval Europe.

Young and Damned and Fair

Author : Gareth Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501108654
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Young and Damned and Fair written by Gareth Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is “a stunning achievement” (The Sunday Times, London), and “a masterly work of Tudor history that is engrossing, sympathetic, suspenseful, and illuminating” (Charlotte Gordon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography). On the morning of July 28, 1540, a teenager named Catherine Howard began her reign as queen of an England simmering with rebellion and terrifying uncertainty. Sixteen months later, she would follow her cousin Anne Boleyn to the scaffold, having been convicted of adultery and high treason. The broad outlines of Catherine’s career might be familiar, but her story up until now has been incomplete. Unlike previous biographies, which portray her as a naïve victim of an ambitious family, Gareth Russell’s “excellent account puts the oft-ignored Catherine in her proper historical context” (Daily Mail, London) and sheds new light on her rise and downfall by showing her in her context, a milieu that includes the aristocrats and, most critically, the servants who surrounded her and who, in the end, conspired against her. By illuminating Catherine’s entwined upstairs/downstairs world as well as societal tensions beyond the palace walls, Russell offers a fascinating portrayal of court life in the sixteenth century and a fresh analysis of the forces beyond Catherine’s control that led to her execution. Including a forgotten text of Catherine’s confession in her own words, color illustrations, family tree, map, and extensive notes, Young and Damned and Fair is “a gripping account of a young woman’s future destroyed by forces beyond her control…an important and timely book” (Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire). This account changes our understanding of one of history’s most famous women while telling the compelling and very human story of complex individuals attempting to survive in a dangerous age.

Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, Upon Questions Relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests

Author : Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, Upon Questions Relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests written by Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death

Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851155340
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death written by Mavis E. Mate and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. Professor Mate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined by it, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape.Professor MAVIS E. MATEteaches in the Department of History at the University of Oregon.

All Hands

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Wives and Mothers

Author : Hugh Francis Blunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Great Wives and Mothers written by Hugh Francis Blunt and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Wives and Mothers by Hugh Francis Blunt, first published in 1917, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Women in Purple

Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843227
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Women in Purple written by Judith Herrin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses—Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora—changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a purely symbolic and decorative art and ensuring its influence for centuries to come. In this exhilarating and highly entertaining account, one of the foremost historians of the medieval period tells the story of how these fascinating women exercised imperial sovereignty with consummate skill and sometimes ruthless tactics. Though they gained access to the all-pervasive authority of the Byzantine ruling dynasty through marriage, all three continued to wear the imperial purple and wield tremendous power as widows. From Constantinople, their own Queen City, the empresses undermined competitors and governed like men. They conducted diplomacy across the known world, negotiating with the likes of Charlemagne, Roman popes, and the great Arab caliph Harun al Rashid. Vehemently rejecting the ban on holy images instituted by their male relatives, Irene and Theodora used craft and power to reverse the official iconoclasm and restore icons to their place of adoration in the Eastern Church. In so doing, they profoundly altered the course of history. The art—and not only the art—of Byzantium, of Islam, and of the West would have been very different without them. As Judith Herrin traces the surviving evidence, she evokes the complex and deeply religious world of Constantinople in the aftermath of Arab conquest. She brings to life its monuments and palaces, its court ceremonies and rituals, the role of eunuchs (the "third sex"), bride shows, and the influence of warring monks and patriarchs. Based on new research and written for a general audience, Women in Purple reshapes our understanding of an empire that lasted a thousand years and splashes fresh light on the relationship of women to power.

The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500

Author : H. Hurlburt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137037822
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500 written by H. Hurlburt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the identity and public personae of the dogaressa, wives of the elected doges of medieval and early modern Venice. The study traces the evolution of the public functions of the group of quasi-royal wives, rare for their visibility, during Venice's development into a regional economic and political power.