Western Europe category: 1822 books

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Funny, informative, and down-to-earth, this ebook features thirteen of the most popular articles from Medievalist.net's Five-Minute Medievalist, Danièle Cybulskie. Readers will learn about everything from the Templars, to popular movie myths, to love and lust advice from a 12th-century priest....

Este livro é uma compilação de histórias curiosas, reais, ou pelo menos aceites como tal, cujos protagonistas foram membros da realeza de vários países. Podemos encontrar, por exemplo, os seguintes episódios: - Relação...

Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in...

This inspiring collection of campaign speeches from the WWII-era British prime minister brings the great politician’s work to life. Legendary politician and military strategist Sir Winston Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course...

Lodewijk van Frankrijk, bijgenaamd de 'Zonnekoning', droomde ervan de machtigste vorst van zijn tijd te worden. Maar hij stuitte op een taaie prins, de jonge Willem III van Oranje. Lodewijk was een aantrekkelijke verschijning. Willem had een bochel en was berucht om zijn nukkigheid. Lodewijk heerste...

Karel V was de eerste keizer die regeerde over bijna de helft van Europa en in de Amerika's. Hij streefde onafgebroken naar vrede en christelijke en staatkundige eenheid, maar uiteindelijk bracht zijn politiek slechts talloze oorlogen en zaaide hij verdeeldheid. Karel V is toegankelijke geschiedschrijving...

One of two beautifully designed hardback gift editions of Stefan Zweig's breathlessly dramatic historical sketches, out in time for Christmas. A single Yes, a single No, a Too Soon or a Too Late makes that hour irrevocable for hundreds of generations while deciding the life of a single man...

An illustrated history of Ireland, from the Viking invasions of Ireland to 1993, from a working-class socialist viewpoint.

The Roman centurion, holding the legionaries steady before the barbarian horde and then leading them forward to victory, was the heroic exemplar of the Roman world. This was thanks to the Marian reforms, which saw the centurion, although inferior in military rank and social class, superseding the...

A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 provides an accessible survey of how the Portuguese became so influential during this period and how Portuguese settlements were founded in areas as far flung as Asia, Africa and South America. Malyn Newitt examines how the ideas and institutions...

John Milton was born in London in 1608; and it is chiefly the London of the twenty years that intervened between the Spanish Armada and his birth which we are to consider in this chapter.    As neither man nor anything that he has made can be well understood except as they are related to...

Muita tinta tem corrido relatando o intenso romance de Napoleão e Josefina. O que permanece, mais ou menos desconhecido, é a personalidade sedutora deste grande general que, ao longo da sua vida, amou várias mulheres, umas mais do que outras. Com este livro Frédéric...

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas’s work "Martin Guerre". It was first published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839–40), and recounts the unbelievable story of a famous case of imposture in sixteenth-century France. Some years subsequent...