Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Founding an Empire, Hardback - Matthew Lewis

The powerful medieval couple who formed an empire beyond England, and whose children included Richard the Lionheart and King John.Publisher: Amberl...

A unique look at the extraordinary lives of the royal child brides of the Angevin Empire.

When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1, 000 m...

It's a tale that covers three decades at its heart, with loyalty to family and principles at stake, in a land where foreigners are subject to inten...

'Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this book offers a fresh perspective on one of the most controversial queens in history. Not to be ...

Reducere. The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Alison WeirNumber of pages: 496Collection: England's Medieval QueensPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x...

New in paperback - In this biography Sara Cockerill has gone back to the primary sources, and the wealth of recent first-rate scholarship, and asse...

Reducere. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor of Aquitaine has spent the past dozen frustrating years as wife to the pious King Louis VII of France. But ...

When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me--my triumphs and most of my misfortunes--was due to ...

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Two cousins waged war for the future of England. Only one could win. This is the story of Stephen and Matilda, and the civil war remembered as The ...

This collection of translated primary sources for Ottoman history shows how the major institutions of Ottoman government developed, and how they fu...

This new book provides a fresh perspective on these well-known rebellions, it examines the causes behind insurrections and how in turn they influen...

A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empirePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Eleanor Hubb...

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A day by day chronicle of life in London during the year in which America declared independence, based on a wide range of diaries, letters and news...

Contributor(s): Author: Mark Edward LewisEditor: Timothy BrookThe Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age, " a period of commercial, relig...

Reducere. Contemporary scholars often refer to "the event of Vatican II, " but what kind of an event was it? In this first book of the new CUA Press series S...

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In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents,...

Details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from someone who harboured negative impressions of Jews to become a leading Gentile champion of Israel i...

First full-length study of the campaigns led by Henry of Lancaster in Aquitaine, including a detailed biographical study of the individuals involve...

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The biography of Jules Thorn, the creator of Thorn Electrical Industries.Publisher: Libri PublishingAuthor(s): Jim LewisIllustration(s): 120 black ...

Ostensibly about a Scottish couple renovating a crumbling farmhouse in Aquitaine that's been in the family for generations on a shoestring budget, ...

Explores the architectural and artistic projects of Philip II of Spain, placing them in the wider context of the peninsular, European, and transoce...

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Reducere. La RVR Biblia de Estudio Matthew Henry presenta más de 15.000 notas elaboradas por Matthew Henry y otros más de 200 teólogos y autores de renombre ...

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Rising from humble origins, Luther H Holton became an entrepreneur extraordinaire, with interests in real estate, railway building, steamboats, & b...

The chapters have been carefully structured by the editors so that this wide array of scholarship combines to give a coherent, comprehensive study ...

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From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's epic retelling of the Wars of the Roses. With an expert introduc...

Reducere. "The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea." --Henry VI Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmu...

A biography of Richard, 3rd Duke of York, which pushes aside the veils of myth and legend to reveal a complex family man with unparalleled power an...

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Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an Ame...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marek Adam WozniakA military history of ancient Persia from its founding to the the end of the Sasanid Empire translated fr...

The Most Popular Commentary Ever Written in a Modern, Easy-to-Read Edition. "First among the mighty (commentaries) for general usefulness we are bo...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Victoria GlendinningNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 243 x 35Cover type: H...

This book examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism, one that foreshadows the Enlightenment discourse of ...

Reducere. Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals.With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thir...

On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as "the Conqueror, " launched the final assault against the walls of Constant...

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In this groundbreaking study, Muna Tatari and Klaus von Stosch painstakingly reconstruct the picture of Mary that is presented in the Qur'an and sh...

Middle Eastern Christians are often portrayed as a homogeneous, helpless group ever at the mercy of their Muslim enemies, a situation that only Wes...