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17 produkter
Prisoner King
Charles I in Captivity
Häftad, 2025
189 kr
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Much has been written about Charles I’s reign, about the brutal civil war into which his pursuit of unfettered power plunged the realm, and about the Commonwealth regime that followed his defeat and execution. His reign is one that shaped the future of the British monarchy, and his legacy still …
Henry V
Häftad, 2012
687 kr
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Henry V of England, the princely hero of Shakespeare’s play, who successfully defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt and came close to becoming crowned King of France, is one of the best known and most compelling monarchs in English history. This new biography takes a fresh look at his …
Wolsey
The Life of King Henry VIII''s Cardinal
E-bok, 2014
157 kr
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Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher''s son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle – yet, to some, an arrogant upstart. As Lord Chancellor to the incorrigible Henry VIII he achieved much both at home and abroad, but his failure to achieve …
Henry VIII
The Life and Rule of England's Nero
Häftad, 2014
160 kr
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This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the ‘old monster’ and his reign. The ‘monster’ displayed here is, at the very least, a newer type, more beset by anxieties and insecurities, and more tightly surrounded by those who equated loyalty with fear, self-interest …
James I
Scotland''s King of England
E-bok, 2015
114 kr
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Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England''s first Stuart. Yet, as this biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the long-term consequences of his reign has gone too far.In spite of genuine idealism and flashes of …
Europe in Flames
The Crisis of the Thirty Years War
Inbunden, 2018
301 kr
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‘War,’ wrote Cardinal Richelieu, ‘is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men’. Yet the prelate’s mournful observation scarcely begins to encapsulate the full complexity and unspeakable horror of the greatest man-made calamity to befall Europe before the twentieth century. …
James I
Scotland's King of England
Häftad, 2018
201 kr
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Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England’s first Stuart. Yet, as this biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the long-term consequences of his reign has gone too far.In spite of genuine idealism and flashes of …
Martyrs of Henry VIII
Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice
Inbunden, 2019
280 kr
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TUDOR ENGLAND WAS A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS UPHEAVAL AND UNCERTAINTY, AS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS REPLACED BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WITH HENRY VIII AT ITS HEADWhen Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman named Elizabeth Barton, known as the Holy Maid of Kent and widely revered as a …
History of the Tudors in 100 Objects
Häftad, 2019
214 kr
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This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving cultural landscape, at once familiar and alien to the modern reader.John Matusiak sets out to shed new light on the lives and times …
Europe in Flames
The Crisis of the Thirty Years War
Häftad, 2020
184 kr
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The Thirty Years War claimed more lives proportionately than either the First or Second World Wars – not only from battle and the endemic violence of marauding armies, but also from famine and plague. The bitter struggle encompassed the entire political and religious future of Europe and involved …
Henry V
E-bok, 2012
809 kr
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Henry V of England, the princely hero of Shakespeare’s play, who successfully defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt and came close to becoming crowned King of France, is one of the best known and most compelling monarchs in English history. This new biography takes a fresh look at his …
Henry V
E-bok, 2012
809 kr
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Henry V of England, the princely hero of Shakespeare’s play, who successfully defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt and came close to becoming crowned King of France, is one of the best known and most compelling monarchs in English history. This new biography takes a fresh look at his …
Tudors and Europe
Häftad, 2025
208 kr
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In 1517, a certain Dr Beale, rector of St Mary Spitall in London, roused the capital’s mob by laying the blame for an increase in poverty squarely upon the shoulders of grasping foreigners. ‘God has given England to Englishmen,’ he fumed, ‘as birds would defend their nest, so ought Englishmen to …
Martyrs of Henry VIII
Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice
Häftad, 2026
198 kr
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TUDOR ENGLAND WAS A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS UPHEAVAL AND UNCERTAINTY, AS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS REPLACED BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WITH HENRY VIII AT ITS HEADWhen Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman named Elizabeth Barton, known as the Holy Maid of Kent and widely revered as a …
Henry V
Inbunden, 2012
2231 kr
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Henry V of England, the princely hero of Shakespeare’s play, who successfully defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt and came close to becoming crowned King of France, is one of the best known and most compelling monarchs in English history. This new biography takes a fresh look at his …
Wolsey
The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal
Häftad, 2016
162 kr
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Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher’s son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle – yet, to some, an arrogant upstart. As Lord Chancellor to the incorrigible Henry VIII he achieved much both at home and abroad, but his failure to achieve …
Wolsey
The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal
Inbunden, 2014
227 kr
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Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher’s son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle – yet, to some, an arrogant upstart. As Lord Chancellor to the incorrigible Henry VIII he achieved much both at home and abroad, but his failure to achieve …
