Plantagenet Princesses. The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, Hardback - Douglas Boyd

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

DescriptionIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry II, and his ...

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...

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.Author(s): Katherine HoweNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 158 x 235 x 25Cover type: PaperbackRede...

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.Illustrations: 1 Line drawings, black and white

Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Victoria HockfieldIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 88Publication dat...

As a daughter of God, she is royalty. This beautifully illustrated book features all your little princess's favorite scripture heroines. Each chapt...

The first proper biographies of the three younger sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II, each whose lives were wrecked by tragedyPublisher: Fonthill Media L...

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The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young wo...

The fascinating story of Henry VIII's Illegitimate uncle.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Sarah-Beth WatkinsIllustration(s): 20 black and...

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

Reducere. A bewitching novel of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse by Katherine Howe, New York Times ...

Ishtar and Ereshkigal are the daughters of the Moon God Sin and sisters of the Sun God Shamash and members of a family of deities called the Anunna...

An illustrated portrait of English society in the year of Magna Carta, from best-selling author Dan Jones.Illustrations: Integrated illustrations

The first book of its kind, Agente tells the remarkable stories of some of the bravest and most dangerous women who ever lived.

Popular author Douglas Boyd provides a rich background to the multitude of plagues and pandemics that have beleaguered the history of humankind, hi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tish ThawerThrough space and time, sisters entwined. Lost then found, souls remain bound. After being reunited in the prese...

Reducere. From the acclaimed author of Schindler's List, the new novel that has been called the best of Thomas Keneally's career, and hailed as "magnificent....

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

Reducere. Previously published in the United Kingdom as DAUGHTERS OF CASTLE DEVERILLIreland. 1925. The war is over. But life will never be the same...``Every...

Sunday Times top ten bestseller Forever Outnumbered is real life parenting through the eyes of a modern day dad by Simon Hooper, aka Instagram's Fa...

Feely gets to look after the class goldfish, Henry the First, during half term. Will it end in disaster?

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. You want insights for living? Look to people whose understandings have been practiced for fifteen hundred years. Saint Benedict and Saint Scholasti...

Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced ...

Reducere. Alone, the beautiful young Anna immigrated to America from an Island in the North Sea at 16, running from cruelty. Honor forced her to leave her fi...

Reducere. Alone, the beautiful young Anna immigrated to America from an Island in the North Sea at 16, running from cruelty. Honor forced her to leave her fi...

She won the heart of the invader. But love will not bring peace . . . Book II in Carol McGrath's acclaimed DAUGHTERS OF HASTINGS Trilogy!Publisher:...

Elditha Swanneck, King Harold's handfasted wife, loses everything as she flees from an arranged marriage after the Battle of Hastings to fight for ...

The third in the critically acclaimed Daughters of Hastings series of historical novels by Carol McGrath. It is 1068 and Thea, Princess of England,...

Reducere. From Amazon charts bestseller Pam Howes comes a heart-breaking and uplifting historical novel about a community pulling together in the shadows of ...