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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-925-4
EAN 9781782399254
In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to whom the parcel was addressed: Reynald de Chatillon - ...
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In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to whom the parcel was addressed: Reynald de Chatillon - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-78408-033-4
EAN 9781784080334
The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain (410) and the death of Alfred the Great (899) have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers, but Britain's 'Dark Ages' can still be explored through their material remnants: buildings, books, metalwork, and, above all, landscapes. Max Adams explores Britain's lost early medieval past by ...
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In 1345 Henry of Lancaster, earl of Derby - the most prominent soldier, diplomat and statesman of his generation - led an English royal army to the duchy of Aquitaine and inflicted two devastating defeats on the French royal forces. These were the first decisive victories for either side, and swung the course of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18725-0
EAN 9780300187250
This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. Whether noble and brave or flawed and ...
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This book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the 'barbarian' kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, and in particular the works of Cassiodorus and Ennodius, Jonathan J. Arnold argues that contemporary Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic kingdom as the Western Roman Empire ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78185-883-7
EAN 9781781858837
1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history - saw England engulfed by crisis. Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, they drew up a list of their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-212-8
EAN 9781780762128
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-1007-1
EAN 9781473610071
A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta...his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining.' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Good history is descriptive, narrative and analytical. This is good history.' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesAt Runnymede, on the banks ...
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PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16929-3
EAN 9780691169293
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore.The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-1961-2
EAN 9781472119612
The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family - from Henry II, to Richard III. Four kings were murdered, two came close to deposition and another was killed in a battle by rebels. Shakespeare wrote plays about six of them, further entrenching them in the National Myth.Based on major contemporary sources and recent ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-4195-9
EAN 9781447241959
No English king has suffered a worse press than King John: Bad King John, the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood, Magna Carta - but how to disentangle myth and truth? John was the youngest of the five sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, who, on the death of his brother Richard the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3
EAN 9780241298763
The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...'Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which brilliantly brings to life the personalities, battles, massacres, triumphs and follies of these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 29,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21610-3
EAN 9780300216103
What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their worldThe Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-84-01-01573-1
EAN 9788401015731
Del origen de las cruzadas al final de la Orden del Temple. Todo sobre la orden religiosa y militar más famosa de la historia.En una Europa sumida en la anarquía, unos hombres hicieron de las armas su modo de vida y forjaron un legado entre la realidad y la leyenda que ha perdurado hasta nuestros ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-5051-7
EAN 9781445650517
Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been effectively airbrushed from history; yet she had one of the most fascinating lives of any of England's queens. Her childhood was spent in the centre of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated by her military hero of a father (St ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 36,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16976-7
EAN 9780691169767
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose.Bisson traces ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,65 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-4570-1
EAN 9781473845701
Byzantium Triumphant describes in detail the wars of the Byzantine emperors Nicephorus II Phocas, his nephew and assassin John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II. The operations, battles and drama of their various bitter struggles unfold, depicting the new energy and improved methods of warfare developed in the late tenth century. These emperors were at war ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-3642-8
EAN 9781472136428
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful event that had ever happened to the Kingdom of France'. Christopher Hibbert's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-5664-1
EAN 9780712656641
The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free of suffering and sin - a Kingdom of the Saints. Generation after generation was intermittently seized by a tense expectation of some ...
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