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ISBN 978-0-413-77735-5
EAN 9780413777355
In this enthralling work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over six hundred years ago. A diplomat, and brother-in-law to John of Gaunt - one of the most powerful men in the kingdom - Chaucer was celebrated as his country's finest living poet, rhetorician and scholar: the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78954-663-7
EAN 9781789546637
The story of Aelfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain. In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid the North to waste. Ghosting along estuaries and inshore waters, in 871 they penetrated deep ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-910702-10-9
EAN 9781910702109
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined women often broke through medieval constraints to exercise ...
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KATHERINE OF ARAGON AND JUANA, QUEEN OF CASTILE. SynopsisThe first dual biography of Katherine and Juana, based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of the sources.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-913336-05-9
EAN 9781913336059
The Mongols created the greatest landlocked empire known to history. It was an empire created and sustained by means of conquest. Initially an insignificant tribal leader, Genghis Khan gradually increased his power, overcoming one rival after another.After he had subjugated all tribes of Inner Asia, he struck southward into China and later attacked distant Khwarizm ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25480-8
EAN 9780300254808
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4711-9643-0
EAN 9781471196430
Asbridge can't help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along' The TimesA superb and definitive one-volume account of the Crusades, the impact of which still resonates to this day. In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-241-28398-1
EAN 9780241283981
'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78185-889-9
EAN 9781781858899
From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told.Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight' HELEN CASTOR. 'A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged across medieval centuries' ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 340 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-413-77734-8
EAN 9780413777348
Since it was first published in 1980, Terry Jones's study of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular and controversial books ever to hit the world of Chaucer scholarship. Jones questions the accepted view of the Knight as a paragon of Christian chivalry, and argues that he is in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5098-2962-0
EAN 9781509829620
'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsIn The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78125-786-9
EAN 9781781257869
The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their monasteries ransacked. Under brutal interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, desecration of the Cross, sex acts and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5098-4791-4
EAN 9781509847914
'She imagines the experiences of the sisters with empathy and patience ... and ably manages to coax the few sparks of evidence into flames of personality ... Whoop, whoop! If anyone can find me another clutch of rebel princesses, let's get crowd-funding.' Hermione Eyre, SpectatorVirginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-300-16475-6
EAN 9780300164756
The first complete account of Catholic Europe's onslaught on "unbelievers" in the 12th century The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84668-451-7
EAN 9781846684517
In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population.The fall of Jerusalem was a turning point, the start of a narrative of desperate struggle and relentless loss. In little more than a century Acre ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78649-771-0
EAN 9781786497710
At Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history - even the most unexpected of subjects - and that everything links together in unexpected ways. We believe that the history of the itch, the history of crawling, the history of clouds, or of lightning or of zombies or zebras or holes or ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 37,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6594-8
EAN 9781445665948
1066: a battlefield in England, a mighty king lies prone on the ground, his lifeblood ebbing out of him. As he draws his last breath, the world of which he is the greatest figurehead also moves towards its end, its existence about to pass from history into legend and later into myth. This is not ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78274-900-4
EAN 9781782749004
Crusading fervour gripped Europe for more than 200 years and yet, almost a millennium later, we continue to question the crusaders' motivation: was it purely spiritual reward or did greed play a part? What did knights from Western Europe have to gain from a hugely risky and expensive missions to the the Holy Land?The Crusades ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23031-4
EAN 9780300230314
On 18 May 1291, after a desperate siege of six weeks, the city of Acre, the last crusader stronghold in the Holy Land, fell to the Mamluk army. It was the effective end to Christendom's two-hundred-year adventure in the realm it called Outremer. The aftershock was immense. Despite calls for crusade that lasted for centuries, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 688 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-690-9
EAN 9781846146909
The gripping new history by the author of the acclaimed bestseller Winter KingIt is 1461 and England is crippled by civil war. One freezing morning, a teenage boy wins a battle in the Welsh marches, and claims the crown. He is Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York...Thomas Penn's remarkable new telling ...
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