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  • The Reign of Richard Lionheart

    Ruler of The Angevin Empire, 1189-1199

    by Ralph V Turner, Richard Heiser ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions, and recent scholarship ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

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  • Eleanor Of Aquitaine

    By the Wrath of God, Queen of England

    by Alison Weir ...
    Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. She had been reared in a relaxed and licentious court where the arts of the troubadours flourished, and was even said to have presided over the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Henry V: The Warrior King of 1415

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    From an award-winning historian: "A new and convincing likeness of medieval England's most iconic king" ( The Sunday Times).This biography by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England takes an insightful look at the life of Henry V, casting new light on a period in history often held up as legend.A great English hero, Henry V was lionized by Shakespeare and revered by ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his pietyand his rigorous application of justice, he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But what was he really like? Does he deserve to be thought of as 'the greatest man who ever ruled England?'In Ian Mortimer's groundbreaking book, he ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Hundred Years War Vol 1

    Trial by Battle

    by Jonathan Sumption ...
    'Compulsively readable' ( History) , this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, it follows the Hundred Years War up to the surrender of Calais in 1347. It traces the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Huguenots

    by Geoffrey Treasure ...
    From the author of Louis XIV, an unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora.Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win—however briefly—freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empires of the Normans

    Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia

    by Levi Roach ...
    'Powerful' The Economist'Fascinating, panoramic . . . Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'Narrated with pace, clarity, authority and style, Roach's book is a bracing tour of the world that the Normans made their own' Thomas Williams, bestselling author of Viking Britain'A fresh retelling . . . written with enthusiasm an... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Hundred Years War Vol 3

    Divided Houses

    by Jonathan Sumption ...
    Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died, in 1377, he was succeeded by a vulnerable child, who was destined to grow into a neurotic and unstable adult presiding over a divided nation. Meanwhile France entered upon ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Hundred Years War Vol 2

    Trial By Fire

    by Jonathan Sumption ...
    In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the king. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Field of Cloth of Gold

    by Glenn Richardson ...
    "Pomp, pageantry and epic showing-off: a vivid re-creation of the 1520 peace-promoting rally between the kings of England and France."— The Sunday TimesGlenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery.Throughout most of the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King John

    England's Evil King?

    by Ralph V Turner ...
    King John long ago acquired the epithet 'Bad,' and he is reputed to be the worst of England's kings. Before his death in 1216, his desperate exploitation of his subjects for ever more money had turned him into the mythical monster of Hollywood legend. In marked contrast to his brother Richard, John appeared incompetent in battle, failing to defend Normandy (1202-04), and was unsuccessful in ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England

    by Ralph V. Turner, PhD ...
    Eleanor of Aquitaine’s extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two sons who rose to take the English throne—Richard the Lionheart and John. Renowned for her beauty, hungry for power, headstrong, and unconventional, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD