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49 produkter
Mayflower Pilgrims
Sifting Fact from Fable
Av Derek Wilson
Inbunden, 2019
367 kr
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'Compelling reading' - Alison Weir'A fresh and admirably unsentimental account' - Peter MarshallThe voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 has come to typify those qualities that many believe represent the best of America and the values it holds up to the rest of the world. And yet, if they lived today, …
Mayflower Pilgrims
Sifting Fact from Fable
Av Derek Wilson
Häftad, 2020
142 kr
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'Compelling reading' - Alison Weir'A fresh and admirably unsentimental account' - Peter MarshallThe voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 has come to typify those qualities that many believe represent the best of America and the values it holds up to the rest of the world. And yet, if they lived today, …
A History of South and Central Africa
Av Derek Wilson
Häftad, 1975
252 kr
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This is a history of Africa south of the Congo Forest from about A.D. 1000 to the era of the establishment of independent modern states. Most textbooks on African history are dominated by modern political boundaries that, of course, have no ethnic or geographical validity. This book is unique in …
Philosopher and the Gospels
Jesus through the lens of philosophy
Häftad, 2011
176 kr
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The teachings of Jesus Christ, as presented in the Bible, are familiar to millions, but do we really understand them? Keith Ward argues that, by scrutinising the Gospels through the lens of contemporary philosophy, we can discover a profound teaching that is not always apparent in traditional …
Mrs Luther and her sisters
Women in the Reformation
Av Derek Wilson
Inbunden, 2016
287 kr
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It is a frequent complaint that women have been airbrushed out of history, their contributions forgotten, their voices silenced. In this superbly written book, historian Derek Wilson redresses the balance, showing how women were crucial to the Reformation. Working alongside men - and sometimes in …
Mrs Luther and her sisters
Women in the Reformation
Av Derek Wilson
Häftad, 2016
162 kr
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It is a frequent complaint that women have been airbrushed out of history, their contributions forgotten, their voices silenced.In this superbly written book, historian Derek Wilson redresses the balance, showing how women were crucial to the Reformation. Working alongside men - and sometimes in …
Queen and the Heretic
How two women changed the religion of England
Av Derek Wilson
Inbunden, 2018
318 kr
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The dual biography of two remarkable women - Catherine Parr and Anne Askew. One was the last queen of a powerful monarch, the second a countrywoman from Lincolnshire. But they were joined together in their love for the new learning - and their adherence to Protestantism threatened both their lives. …
Queen and the Heretic
How two women changed the religion of England
Av Derek Wilson
Häftad, 2018
157 kr
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The dual biography of two remarkable women - Catherine Parr and Anne Askew. One was the last queen of a powerful monarch, the second a countrywoman from Lincolnshire. But they were joined together in their love for the new learning - and their adherence to Protestantism threatened both their lives. …
Tudor England
Av Derek Wilson
Häftad, 2010
115 kr
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The Tudor period was a time of massive social change in England with growing cities, increasing trade, and growing stability after the chaos of the Wars of the Roses. Despite military preparations in every county, and the establishment of a new navy, the country was generally at peace, and England …
In The Lion's Court
Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2014
96 kr
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Derek Wilson examines a set of relationships which illustrate just how dangerous life was in the court of the Tudor lion. He tells the interlocking stories of six men - all, curiously, called Thomas - whose ambitions and principles brought them face to face with violent death. Thomas Wolsey was an …
Plantagenets
The Kings That Made Britain
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England''s greatest but also most notorious kings, the house of …
Triarchs
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
50 kr
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The first case for Tim Lacy, ex-SAS officer, security expert and well-respected figure in the art world, a circle made up of dubious dealers, unscrupulous collectors, fraudsters, crime bosses and bona fide connoisseurs, all in pursuit of the rare, the beautiful and the valuable. Aspiring artist …
Dresden Text
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
23 kr
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When the Dresden Text - a treasured fragment of medieval illuminated manuscript - is stolen from a prestigious New York gallery, its loss hits Tim Lacy hard. His firm was responsible for the safety of the exhibits but even more devastatingly, a colleague was killed during the break-in. Within days …
Hellfire Papers
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
23 kr
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When the Master of St Mary''s House, Cambridge, hires Tim Lacy to retrieve a collection of eighteenth-century documents willed to it by a wealthy past member of the college, he omits to mention that these manuscripts have a possible connection with the suicide of the late Dean and that there are …
Camargue Brotherhood
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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At a meeting in East London, art dealer Catherine Lacy is shown six paintings from a previously undiscovered artist, Aristide Bertrand, who moved in the same circles as Van Gogh. She is enormously excited, but her husband, security expert Tim Lacy, is less than thrilled when the agent concerned is …
Unquiet Spirit
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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A haunting in St. Thomas''s College, Cambridge bitterly divides the college, and the Cambridge branch of the Psychic Investigation Unit is invited to carry out an experiment to settle the unrest. But when the main opponent of the plan, Professor Hawkridge, insists on being present for the nocturnal …
Nature of Rare Things
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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When paranormal investigator and Cambridge lecturer Dr. Nathaniel Gye is commissioned at a séance to find a dead man''s killer, he dismisses the incident as a clumsy fraud by a fake medium. But when Nathaniel''s own wife disappears in Italy, an eventuality foretold by the same unquiet spirit, he is …
Borgia Chalice
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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One of the most fabulous treasures of the Renaissance, the Borgia Chalice, carries with it a dark aura - for legend has it that the notorious Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, could use this cup to poison his enemies, yet drink from it himself without harm. Security expert Tim Lacy has no …
Tripletree
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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On a sultry summer night in the Cotswolds, Nathaniel and Katherine Gye are guests at a Civil War fancy-dress party. The theme of the occasion is apt because Tripletree, the Jacobean manor house where the event is being held, is steeped in history and enjoys a colourful past. But at the end of a …
Cumberland's Cradle
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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Lanner Castle is a forbidding gothic building on an island in tiny Loch Huich. The locals know little about its present owner, the reclusive Mr Robertson, except that he is wealthy, writes antiquarian books and owns most of the comprehensive accumulation of torture instruments in private hands. But …
Charlemagne
Barbarian and Emperor
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2014
170 kr
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The greatest of medieval monarchs, Charles the Great (742-814) towers over every notion we have of national heroes and semi-mythical champions. His military conquests exceeded those of Julius Caesar. He had the sagacity and dedication to public service of a Marcus Aurelius. In ruthlessness, as in …
Out Of The Storm
The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2014
170 kr
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Martin Luther changed Europe and, through Europe, the world. It was he who finally exposed the myth of a unified Latin Christendom, which was only held together by crusades, heresy hunts, Inquisition, and priestly magic. Though not the first radical thinker to challenge papal pretensions and the …
Hans Holbein
Portrait of an Unknown Man
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2014
147 kr
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One of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Hans Holbein the Younger was also a complex and fascinating man who knew Erasmus, Thomas More, Henry VIII and many of the sixteenth century's wielders of power and influence. He developed his own distinctive attitudes towards religion, politics and …
Mammoth Books presents The Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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Watson begrudgingly visits relatives in Oxford only to find a case he did not know existed. He learns his dear friend was never at liberty to share the tale. Years have passed since the affair and with Holmes''s passing Watson feels obliged to know the story. Watson is taken back to 1873 when …
Elizabethan Society
High and Low Life, 1558–1603
Av Derek Wilson
Häftad, 2014
151 kr
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The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare (2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death), and it was a period of international …
Elizabethan Society
High and Low Life, 1558–1603
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare (2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare''s death), and it was a period of international …
Brief History of Henry VIII
King, Reformer and Tyrant
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of Holbein, Henry Tudor stands proud as one of the most powerful figures in renaissance Europe. But is the portrait just a bluff? In his brilliant new history of the life of Henry …
Sir Francis Walsingham
Courtier in an Age of Terror
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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During the brief reign of the Queen Mary, Walsingham was a Protestant exile in Italy. Returning home when Elizabeth assumed the throne, from 1570 he became a diplomat to the arch-pragmatist Queen. He was often troubled by her inconsistent policy decisions and for allowing the exile in England of …
Uncrowned Kings of England
The Black Legend of the Dudleys
Av Derek Wilson
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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In the political ferment of the Tudor century one family above all others was always at the troubled centre of court and council. During those years the Dudleys were never far from controversy. Three of them were executed for treason. They were universally condemned as scheming, ruthless, …
