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Illustrations Of British History Biography And Manners In The Reigns Of Henry Viii Edward Vi Mary Elizabeth James I
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Book Synopsis Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, by : Edmund Lodge
Download or read book Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, written by Edmund Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Illustrations Of British History, Biography, And Manners by : Edmund Lodge
Download or read book Illustrations Of British History, Biography, And Manners written by Edmund Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, & James I by : Edmund Lodge
Download or read book Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, & James I written by Edmund Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Family and Feuding at the Court of James I by : Johanna Luthman
Download or read book Family and Feuding at the Court of James I written by Johanna Luthman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1618, Anne Cecil (nee Lake), Lady Roos, accused Frances Cecil, countess of Exeter, of having committed adultery and incest with her husband, the countess's step grandson, William Cecil, Lord Roos. The countess had attempted to poison her twice, first with a poisoned enema, and later with a poisoned syrup of roses. With the help of the countess, Lord Roos secretively fled England for Catholic Italy, leaving his wife and family behind. Now, the murderous countess was again planning to poison Lady Roos, and perhaps also her father, Sir Thomas Lake, the king's Secretary of State. The countess vehemently denied these sensational charges, fell on her knees before the king, and asked for justice and restoration of her damaged honour. The accusations and the countess's defence quickly became a public scandal. The king and council investigated and ordered the matter be solved in the Court of Star Chamber. The Lake and Cecil families promptly sued and counter-sued each other for slander. The trials attracted much attention, not least because Lake's position as Secretary hung in the balance, and because King James decided to emulate the Biblical King Solomon and sit as a judge himself. While the feud and entangled scandals make for sensational reading, they also offer unexplored windows into the culture, society, and politics of Jacobean England. These were events with resounding reverberations and profound impacts on the Jacobean court, involving both its domestic and foreign spheres. Here Johanna Luthman scrutinises the scandals in detail for the first time. Employing a diverse range of methodologies and critical lenses, including those from the history of medicine and gender, and an analysis of several court cases that have not yet been studied, Luthman demonstrates the importance of incorporating the history of these scandals into an understanding of complex and fraught world of the court of King James VI. In so doing, the book offers new perspectives from which to understand the period, and will be necessary reading for all those interested in Jacobean history, as well as the history of gender, family, medicine, and scandal more generally.
Book Synopsis Interpreting the Death of Edward VI by : Kyra Krammer
Download or read book Interpreting the Death of Edward VI written by Kyra Krammer and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Edward VI tends to be glossed over in the historical narrative of the Tudor dynasty. His achievements during his brief time on the throne are eclipsed by the tumultuous and fascinating reigns of his grandfather, father and two half-sisters. This does a great disservice to the precocious and remarkable boy-king. Even with his early death, his effect on English history is undeniable - if he had lived, he would have almost certainly have been considered the greatest of the Tudor monarchs. What killed this impressive young man before he could deepen his mark on history? Moreover, is that medical mystery connected to the premature deaths of the other Tudor male heirs? Interpreting the Death of Edward VI is an exploration into the life, illness and unusually early death of Henry VIII's overshadowed son. The author uses her expertise in Tudor medical history to investigate and provide an in-depth analysis of the prevailing theories of what might have killed the otherwise healthy young Tudor before he reached adulthood.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books in All Languages on Sale by : James Bohn
Download or read book Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books in All Languages on Sale written by James Bohn and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Merchant Adventurers by : James Evans
Download or read book Merchant Adventurers written by James Evans and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement. In the spring of 1553 three ships sailed north-east from London into uncharted waters. The scale of their ambition was breathtaking. Drawing on the latest navigational science and the new spirit of enterprise and discovery sweeping the Tudor capital, they sought a northern passage to Asia and its riches. The success of the expedition depended on its two leaders: Sir Hugh Willoughby, a brave gentleman soldier, and Richard Chancellor, a brilliant young scientist and practical man of the sea. When their ships became separated in a storm, each had to fend for himself. Their fates were sharply divided. One returned to England, to recount extraordinary tales of the imperial court of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The tragic, mysterious story of the other two ships has to be pieced together through the surviving captain's log book, after he and his crew became lost and trapped by the advancing Arctic winter. This long-neglected endeavour was one of the boldest in British history, and its impact was profound. Although the 'merchant adventurers' failed to reach China as they had hoped, their achievements would lay the foundations for England's expansion on a global stage. As James Evans' vivid account shows, their voyage also makes for a gripping story of daring, discovery, tragedy and adventure.
Book Synopsis English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550 by : Barbara J. Harris
Download or read book English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550 written by Barbara J. Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional accomplishments. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara J. Harris argues that the roles of aristocratic wives, mothers, and widows constituted careers for women that had as much public and political significance and were as crucial for the survival and prosperity of their families and class as their husband's careers. Women, Harris demonstrates, were trained from an early age to manage their families' property and households; arrange the marriages and careers of their children; create, sustain, and exploit the client-patron relationships that were an essential element in politics at the regional and national levels; and, finally, manage the transmission and distribution of property from one generation to another, since most wives outlived their husbands. English Aristocratic Women unveils the lives of noblewomen whose historical influence has previously been dismissed, as well as those who became favorites at the court of Henry VIII. Through extensive archival research of documents belonging to more than twelve hundred families, Harris paints a collective portrait of upper-class women of this period. By recognizing the full significance of the aristocratic women's careers, this book reinterprets the politics and gender relations of early modern England. Barbara J. Harris is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous works include Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521.
Book Synopsis A Miscellaneous List of Valuable and Interesting Books, on Sale, at the Low Prices Affixed by : James Sage (Firm)
Download or read book A Miscellaneous List of Valuable and Interesting Books, on Sale, at the Low Prices Affixed written by James Sage (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of English Literature: Renascence and reformation by : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature: Renascence and reformation written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Early Elizabethan Polity by : Stephen Alford
Download or read book The Early Elizabethan Polity written by Stephen Alford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative account of the so-called 'succession crisis' in the first decade of the reign of Elizabeth I.
Book Synopsis Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689, in the University of Minnesota Library by :
Download or read book Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689, in the University of Minnesota Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689 by :
Download or read book Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689 written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charting the Past written by Jeremy Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past. Jeremy Black considers the interaction of history with knowledge and culture in eighteenth-century England and shows how this engagement with the past influenced English historical writing. The past was used as a tool to illustrate the contemporary religious, social, and political debates that shaped the revolutionary advances of the era. Black reveals this "present-centered" historical writing to be so valued and influential in the eighteenth-century that its importance is greatly underappreciated in current considerations of the period. In his customarily vivid and sweeping approach, Black takes readers from print shop to church pew, courtroom to painter's studio to show how historical writing influenced the era, which in turn gave birth to the modern world.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Edward James Stanley ... (Second Portion) ... which Will be Sold by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... on Monday, the 22nd of June, 1908, and Four Following Days by : Edward James Stanely
Download or read book Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Edward James Stanley ... (Second Portion) ... which Will be Sold by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... on Monday, the 22nd of June, 1908, and Four Following Days written by Edward James Stanely and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Minneapolis Public Library by : Minneapolis Public Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Minneapolis Public Library written by Minneapolis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tudor Adventurers written by James Evans and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1553, three ships sailed north-east from London into uncharted waters. The scale of their ambition was breathtaking. Drawing on the latest navigational science and the new spirit of enterprise and discovery sweeping the Tudor capital, they sought a northern passage to Asia and its riches. The success of the expedition depended on its two leaders: Sir Hugh Willoughby, a brave gentleman soldier, and Richard Chancellor, a brilliant young scientist and practical man of the sea. When their ships became separated in a storm, each had to fend for himself. Their fates were sharply divided. One returned to England, to recount extraordinary tales of the imperial court of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The tragic, mysterious story of the other two ships has had to be pieced together through the surviving captain’s log book, after he and his crew became lost and trapped by the advancing Arctic winter. This exceptional endeavour was one of the boldest in British history, and its impact was profound. Although the “merchant adventurers” failed to reach China as they had hoped, their achievements would lay the foundations for England’s expansion on a global stage. As James Evans’ vivid account shows, their voyage also makes for a moving story of daring, discovery, tragedy, and adventure.