Renaissance category: 1000 books
Anne Boleyn
The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's most notorious wife
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Ever since she first appeared in the Tudor court, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second queen, has been a mystery and a source of controversy. Even her birth is shrouded in obscurity; both year and place are the subject of debate. Was she beautiful, as those who fell under her spell believed, or was she...
In Bed with the Tudors
The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders. Sex and childbirth were quite literally a matter of life or death for the Tudors - Elizabeth of York died in childbirth, two of Henry...
by William D. Phillips, Jr, Carla Rahn Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This updated edition traces that history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing particularly on culture, society, politics,...
by Robert Tittler, Judith Richards
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Until recently, the reign of Mary Tudor was generally seen as a ‘sterile interlude’ in the Tudor century, with Mary herself dismissed as ‘Bloody Mary’. Extensive research in the past several decades has overturned these assumptions in almost every respect. In this succinct and up-to-date introduction...
The Accommodated Animal
Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in The Accommodated Animal, the modern human / animal divide first came...
by Douglas H. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2008
Robert Barnes (1495-1540) was perhaps the most important sixteenth-century English Protestant reformer after William Tyndale. The shifting religious and political views of Henry VIII positioned Barnes at the opposite end of the popular ideology of the day, culminating in his execution in 1540 soon...
Les Valois (1293-1589)
Hérédités, pathologie, amours et grandeurs
Language: French
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Nous avons lu dans nos livres d'Histoire bien des certitudes sur les rois de France et leurs familles : Charles VI était atteint de folie, la femme de Philippe VI boitait, Henri III était efféminé, Marguerite de Valois incestueuse, etc, etc...
Dans ce livre concernant la dynastie des Valois,...
by Dane Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
For too long, this period of Scottish history has been romanticised with the exploits of Bonnie Prince Charlie to the fore. Dane Love's personal interest in his ancestors has made him research the lives of ordinary men and women who lived, fought and died during this period and the result is a highly...
Sedgemoor 1685
Marlborough’s First Victory
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
A new account of Monmouth's rebellion of 1685 and the Battle of Sedgemoor. The author focuses on the confrontation between Monmouth and John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, and provides a graphic reassessment of the campaign. He retraces the routes taken by the opposing armies across the...
by Dane Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Fifty tales from the annals of the 'Killing Times' when Bonnie Dundee carried out King Charles II's edict by hunting down and persecuting the Covenanters throughout Southern and Central Scotland. Many of these have been drawn from little-known sources and verbal records handed down from generation...
Crown, Covenant and Cromwell
The Civil Wars in Scotland 1639-1651
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Crown, Covenant and Cromwell is a groundbreaking military history of the Great Civil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish War as it was fought in Scotland and by Scottish armies in England between 1639 and 1651. While the politics of the time are necessarily touched upon, it is above all the story...
The Civil War in Yorkshire
Fairfax Versus Newcastle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
During the English Civil Wars the streets and fields of Yorkshire were fought over for the control of the county. In the bitter confrontation between king and Parliament, Yorkshire was the key to control of the North. This historical guide tells the story of this Yorkshire war, using contemporary...
Cromwell's Masterstroke
Dunbar 1650
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
The victory at Dunbar of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army over the Scots under David Leslie merits a major place in the long succession of Anglo-Scottish battles. The Scots had brought Cromwell's invading army to its knees, but Cromwell took the offensive and, in one of the great upsets of military...
Prince Arthur
The Tudor King Who Never Was
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII. Had the first-born son of Henry VII lived into adulthood, his younger brother Henry would never have become King Henry VIII. The subsequent history of England would have been very different;...