The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of the de Gestis Britonum [historia Regum Britanniae], Hardcover - Geoffrey Of Monmout

Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the ...

Reducere. This imaginative history of the Britons, written in the twelfth century, is the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of...

Reducere. Little is definitively known of the life and schooling of Geoffrey of Monmouth, but his extraordinary literary works have survived centuries as a t...

Publisher: Prospect BooksTranslator: Timothy J. TomasikNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 142 x 218 x 23Cover type: Paperback / ...

Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and life of King Arthur-was ...

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DescriptionWritten in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to chronicle the Brit...

Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the ...

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Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

DescriptionA full translation of an important Mahāyāna Buddhist treatise with a commentary by the famous Tibetan luminary Jamg n Mipham. A monument...

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 ...

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Reducere. From William the Conqueror and the Normans, through Henry VIII and the Tudors, and all the way up to Elizabeth II and the house of Windsor, this be...

Reducere. This children's history of the British Isles begins with the early tribal legends of Albion, and takes us through the Roman period, the Dark Ages, ...

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The history of Buczacz is a microcosm of the history of Galician shtetls and yet Buczacz was a more prominent shtetl than many in Galicia. As a spi...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 13 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 572Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 246 x 175 x 30Co...

DescriptionThe Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's origins--and explain how the past shaped the nati...

A full colour map, based on a digitised map of the city of Oxford in 1876, with its medieval past overlain and important buildings picked out. The ...

Reducere. Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote his Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) in about 1136 AD. His book includes the first account of...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. For more than 1, 000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territo...

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