Read and Download Kathryn Warner book John of Gaunt in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book John of Gaunt. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 532 pages. Book excerpt: The first biography to tell the personal story of the wealthiest, most powerful and most hated man in medieval England.

Read and Download Anthony Goodman book John of Gaunt in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book John of Gaunt. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 438 pages. Book excerpt: John of Gaunt (1340 -99), Duke of Lancaster and pretender to the throne of Castile, was son to Edward III, uncle to the ill-starred Richard III and father to Henry IV and the Lancastrian line. The richest and most powerful subject in England, a key actor on the international stage, patron of Wycliffe and Chaucer, he was deeply involved in the Peasant's revolt and the Hundred Years War. He is also one of the most hated men of his time. This splendid study, the first since 1904, vividly portrays the political life of the age, with the controversial figure of Gaunt at the heart of it.

Read and Download Lee Manion book Narrating the Crusades in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Narrating the Crusades. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page pages. Book excerpt: In Narrating the Crusades, Lee Manion examines crusading's narrative-generating power as it is reflected in English literature from c.1300 to 1604. By synthesizing key features of crusade discourse into one paradigm, this book identifies and analyzes the kinds of stories crusading produced in England, uncovering new evidence for literary and historical research as well as genre studies. Surveying medieval romances including Richard Cœur de Lion, Sir Isumbras, Octavian, and The Sowdone of Babylone alongside historical practices, chronicles, and treatises, this study shows how different forms of crusading literature address cultural concerns about collective and private action. These insights extend to early modern writing, including Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Tamburlaine, and Shakespeare's Othello, providing a richer understanding of how crusading's narrative shaped the beginning of the modern era. This first full-length examination of English crusading literature will be an essential resource for the study of crusading in literary and historical contexts.

Read and Download Gerald Harriss book Shaping the Nation in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Shaping the Nation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 729 pages. Book excerpt: The Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses... A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and penetrating account of this formative period, Gerald Harriss illuminates a richly varied society, as chronicled in The Canterbury Tales, and examines its developing sense of national identity.

Read and Download J. Madison Davis book The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary. This book was released on 1995 with total page 548 pages. Book excerpt: Entries provide the likely sources for a name; describe historical and mythological backgrounds; examine Shakespeare's presentation of a character or place; and suggest various interpretations of a name. Each entry contains line citations to William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, edited by Wells and Taylor, Oxford University Press, 1986.

Read and Download Henry Morley book English Writers in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book English Writers. This book was released on 1890 with total page 386 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Giles St Aubyn book The Year of Three Kings 1483 in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Year of Three Kings 1483. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 222 pages. Book excerpt: Richard III has the most controversial reputation of any English king. If he was the murderer of his two nephews and (as many contemporaries thought) the poisoner of his own wife, he has a place among the foremost villains of history. If however his only real crime was to have been on the losing side, then he is the victim of an extraordinary and enduring smear campaign. Which version is correct? Whether true or false, the legend of Richard III's villainy has embedded itself in the nation's consciousness. In this clear, careful narrative, first published in 1983 (the 500th anniversary of a year in which three kings occupied the throne of England) Giles St. Aubyn relates the violent and blood-stained story, his cool, witty style contrasting with the brutality of the period he describes.

Read and Download Michael Jones book England and her Neighbours 1066 1453 in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book England and her Neighbours 1066 1453. This book was released on 1989-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Book excerpt: England and her Neighbours is a collection of essays discussing England's external relations during the Middle Ages that have been collected in honour of the late Pierre Chaplais. These articles trace the progress of English political relations with a number of European nations, including Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Iberia, as well as relations during the Hundred Years War (1137-1453). In doing so, this volume draws attention to a range of valuable source material and creates a fascinating survey from the battle of Hastings in 1066 to the end of the Hundred Years War in 1453.

Read and Download Chris Given-Wilson book The Royal Bastards of Medieval England in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Royal Bastards of Medieval England. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 236 pages. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, The Royal Bastards of Medieval England establishes a list of royal bastards in medieval England, and discusses their roles in the history of the period. The authors describe how gradually the church began to formulate more definite views on sexual and marital customs, with a consequent decline in the status of illegitimate children. By early sixteenth century, however, royal bastards were once again making their way into the peerage. The book charts the lives of these men and women against the background not only of contemporary political developments, but also of changing ideas about morality and family. This book will be of interest to students of history, religion and literature.

Read and Download Milo Kearney book Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Book excerpt: Their respective ancestral cultures in England and Spain, argue scholars Milo Kearney and Manuel Medrano, had common roots in medieval Europe, and both their conflicts and the shared understandings that may form the basis for their cooperation trace back to those days."--BOOK JACKET.

Read and Download Carol Sargeant book Love Honour and Royal Blood Book Three Rose Red Royal Blue Lancaster in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Love Honour and Royal Blood Book Three Rose Red Royal Blue Lancaster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 500 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Sarah Gristwood book Blood Sisters The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Blood Sisters The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 383 pages. Book excerpt: The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses.

Read and Download Helen Carr book The Red Prince in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Red Prince. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 304 pages. Book excerpt: A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 ‘The Red Prince announces Helen Carr as one of the most exciting new voices in narrative history.’ Dan Jones Son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all the Tudors. Always close to the English throne, John of Gaunt left a complex legacy. Too rich, too powerful, too haughty… did he have his eye on his nephew’s throne? Why was he such a focus of hate in the Peasants’ Revolt? In examining the life of a pivotal medieval figure, Helen Carr paints a revealing portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, pressed for the Bible to be translated into English, patronised the arts, ran huge risks to pursue the woman he loved… and, according to Shakespeare, gave the most beautiful of all speeches on England.

Read and Download William Hickling Prescott book History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic. This book was released on 1870 with total page 548 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Geoffrey Chaucer book Romaunt of the rose Minor poems in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Romaunt of the rose Minor poems. This book was released on 1894 with total page 642 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Geoffrey Chaucer book Chaucer the Minor Poems in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Chaucer the Minor Poems. This book was released on 1896 with total page 642 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Geoffrey Chaucer book The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chauncer Romaunt of the rose Minor poems in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chauncer Romaunt of the rose Minor poems. This book was released on 1894 with total page 644 pages. Book excerpt: