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  • For Honour and Fame

    Chivalry in England, 1066-1500

    par Nigel Saul ...
    The world of medieval chivalry is at once glamorous and violent, alluring yet alien. Our popular views of the period are largely inherited from the nineteenth-century romantics, for whom chivalry evoked images of knights in shining armour, competing for the attention of fair ladies - with pennons and streamers fluttering from castle battlements.But what is the reality? Were the rituals and romance ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Richard II

    par Nigel Saul ...
    Collections series The English Monarchs Series
    Richard II is one of the most enigmatic of English kings. Shakespeare depicted him as a tragic figure, an irresponsible, cruel monarch who nevertheless rose in stature as the substance of power slipped from him. By later writers he has been variously portrayed as a half-crazed autocrat or a conventional ruler whose principal errors were the mismanagement of his nobility and disregard for the ... En savoir plus

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  • A Great and Terrible King

    Edward I and the Forging of Britain

    par Marc Morris ...
    This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king. Edward I is familiar to millions as 'Longshanks', conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace ('Braveheart'). Edward was born to rule England, but believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Perfect King

    The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation

    par Ian Mortimer ...
    He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years, and taxed his people more than any other previous king. Yet for centuries Edward III was celebrated as the most brilliant king England had ever had, and three hundred years after his death it was said that his kingship was perhaps the greatest that the world had ever ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Edward III: The Perfect King

    par Ian Mortimer ...
    A look at the brutal, brilliant fourteenth-century ruler, by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England.Holding power for over fifty years starting in 1327, Edward III was one of England's most influential kings—and one who shaped the course of English history. Revered as one of the country's most illustrious leaders for centuries, he was also a usurper and a warmonger ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Henry IV: The Righteous King

    par Ian Mortimer ...
    The real life story of the Plantagenet ruler, by "the most remarkable medieval historian of our time" ( The Times, London).The talented, confident, and intelligent son of John of Gaunt, Henry IV started his reign as a popular and charismatic king after he dethroned the tyrannical and wildly unpopular Richard II. But six years into his reign, Henry had survived eight assassination and overthrow ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Henry V: The Warrior King of 1415

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Fears of Henry IV

    The Life of England's Self-Made King

    par Ian Mortimer ...
    In June 1405, King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm. That night he awoke screaming that traitors were burning his skin. His instinctive belief that he was being poisoned was understandable: he had already survived at least eight plots to dethrone or kill him in the first six years of his reign.Henry IV had not always been so unpopular. In his youth he had ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Crown & Sceptre

    A New History of the British Monarchy from William the Conqueror to Charles III

    par Tracy Borman ...
    'Not just a brilliant compendium of biographies, but the biography of an institution: a marvellous read' - TOM HOLLANDThe perfect read for fans of UNRULY'This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle'(William Shakespeare, Richard II)The British monarchy is the one of the most iconic and enduring institutions in the world. It has weathered the storms of rebellion, revolution and war that brought ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Hollow Crown

    A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages

    par Miri Rubin ...
    Collections series Penguin History of Britain
    There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Tudors

    par Richard Rex ...
    The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with a small force at Milford Haven intent on snatching the English throne from Richard III. For more than a hundred years England was to be dominated by the personalities of the fi ve Tudor monarchs, ranging from the brilliance and brutality of Henry VIII to the shrewdness and vanity of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I. ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD