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Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1848040318
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1907446702
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0276428064
Explore the fascinating history of the British monarchy with The Kings & Queens of England from Reader's Digest. The scandal, the murders, and the intrigue - history has never been so exciting Charting the progress of the monarchy from the invasion of the Normans in 1066, to the Wars of the Roses, Henry VIII's divorce and Charles I's execution, right up to the present day, this is a definitive guide to the rule of the kings and queens of England. The Kings & Queens of England looks at each royal dynasty in turn, concentrating on the most exciting aspects of each era, including war, conspiracy, treachery, betrayal and unrequited love. Read about the mysterious death of William II, shot by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest in 1100, or about the retinue of mistresses Charles II kept in grand style in houses all over London during the Restoration period. The book follows the royal family histories right up to the present day, looking at the adulteries and divorces of the House of Windsor, and the tragic death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash in 1997. Including analysis about how the Monarchy has managed to survive the scandals that have followed it down the centuries, and
Author : Brenda Ralph-Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782744711
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502619099
To many, Europe has been the pinnacle of world sophistication and culture. Yet beneath the power, the glamor, and the splendor there has also been scandal, mystery and skullduggery. Kings & Queens of Europe: A Dark History peels away the glory and the glitz to take a wry look at what has really gone on in the corridors, bedrooms and dungeons of European power from the fourteenth century up to the present day.
Author : Paul Kléber Monod
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300090668
This sweeping book explores the profound shift in the way European kings and queens were regarded by their subjects between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Once viewed as godlike beings, by 1715 monarchs had come to represent the human, visible side of the rational state. The author offers new insights into the relations between kings and their subjects and the interplay between monarchy and religion.
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : Metro Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : LCCN:86653984
Author : Thomas Foster Earle,K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521815827
This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908696342
Kings & Queens of Europe peels away the glory and the glitz to take a wry look at what has really gone on in the corridors, bedrooms and dungeons of European power from the fourteenth century up to the present day.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Europe
ISBN : 080786501X
This beautifully illustrated and colorful wallchart shows the lineage and coats of arms of the royal houses of Great Britain and Europe from the tenth century to the present, from Aethelred the Unready to Charles and Diana. Featuring 164 heraldic shields, the chart traces all of Europe's royal lines.
Author : Michael Farquhar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0140280243
From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class. Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity-or just very bad luck.
Author : Shelley Puhak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781635574920
National Bestseller “A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”--Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Figures The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule. Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet-in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport-these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. The two queens commanded armies and negotiated with kings and popes. They formed coalitions and broke them, mothered children and lost them. They fought a decades-long civil war-against each other. With ingenuity and skill, they battled to stay alive in the game of statecraft, and in the process laid the foundations of what would one day be Charlemagne's empire. Yet after the queens' deaths-one gentle, the other horrific-their stories were rewritten, their names consigned to slander and legend. In The Dark Queens, award-winning writer Shelley Puhak sets the record straight. She resurrects two very real women in all their complexity, painting a richly detailed portrait of an unfamiliar time and striking at the roots of some of our culture's stubbornest myths about female power. The Dark Queens offers proof that the relationships between women can transform the world.
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502619068
Despite its reputation as the longest established in Europe, the history of the English monarchy is punctuated by scandal, murders, betrayals, plots, and treason. Since William the Conqueror seized the crown in 1066, England has seen three civil wars; six monarchs have been murdered or executed; the throne of England has been usurped four times, and won in battle three times; and personal scandals and royal family quarrels abound.
Author : Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly,Adam Morton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317072874
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that the root of these consorts’ power lay in their dynastic networks and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig, Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation, among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries, theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women to consider ‘queens consort’ as a category, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and political history.
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908696328
From corruption to nepotism, from crusade to witch-burning to Inquisition, from popes sanctioning murder to popes being murdered, Dark History of The Popes explores more than 1000 years of sinister deeds surrounding the papacy.