The Confessor S Wife

Author : Kelly Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995857849

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The Confessor's Wife by Kelly Evans Pdf

In the 11th Century, when barren wives are customarily cast aside, how does Edith of Wessex not only manage to stay married to King Edward the Confessor, but also become his closest advisor, promote her family to the highest offices in the land, AND help raise her brother to the throne? And why is her story only told in the footnotes of Edward's history?Not everyone approves of Edward's choice of bride. Even the king's mother, Emma of Normandy, detests her daughter-in-law and Edith is soon on the receiving end of her displeasure. Balancing her sense of family obligation with her duty to her husband, Edith must also prove herself to her detractors. Edward's and Edith's relationship is respectful and caring, but when Edith's enemies engineer her family's fall from grace, the king is forced to send her away. She vows to do anything to protect her family's interests if she returns, at any cost. Can Edith navigate the dangerous path fate has set her, while still remaining loyal to both her husband and her family?

Author : Richard Mortimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132207106

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Edward the Confessor by Richard Mortimer Pdf

"This collection of essays, originating in the celebration of the millennium of Edward the Confessor's birth, is a full-scale reassessment of Edward's life and cult." --Book Jacket.

Author : Frank Barlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198202032

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The Life of King Edward who Rests at Westminster by Frank Barlow Pdf

The anonymous Life of King Edward written about the time of the Norman Conquest, is an important and intriguing source for the history of Anglo-Saxon England in the years just before 1066. It provides a fascinating account of Edward the Confessor and his family, including his wife Edith, his father-in-law Earl Godwin, and the queen's brothers Tostig and Harold (who became king in 1066). The foundations of the legend of St. Edward the Confessor are apparent from the version of the work supplied by the unique manuscript of circa 1100. Barlow explores the problems raised by this anonymous and now incomplete manuscript and examines the development of the cult of St. Edward. He also investigates the life and works of Goscelin of St. Bertin, a possible author. For this second edition, Barlow has not only undertaken a complete revision of the book, but recent discoveries have enabled him to reconstruct in part the lacunae in BL Harley MS 526 with texts closer to the original.

Author : Tom Licence
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300255584

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Edward the Confessor by Tom Licence Pdf

An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066 One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to have been canonized. Often cast as a reluctant ruler, easily manipulated by his in-laws, he has been blamed for causing the invasion of 1066—the last successful conquest of England by a foreign power. Tom Licence navigates the contemporary webs of political deceit to present a strikingly different Edward. He was a compassionate man and conscientious ruler, whose reign marked an interval of peace and prosperity between periods of strife. More than any monarch before, he exploited the mystique of royalty to capture the hearts of his subjects. This compelling biography provides a much-needed reassessment of Edward’s reign—calling into doubt the legitimacy of his successors and rewriting the ending of Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Frank Barlow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300183825

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Edward the Confessor by Frank Barlow Pdf

Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with deep insight and great historical understanding. "Deploying all the resources of formidable scholarship, [Barlow] has recovered the real Edward." — Spectator

Author : Filippo Maria Salvatori
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Christian life
ISBN : OXFORD:600095090

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Practical Instruction for New Confessors by Filippo Maria Salvatori Pdf

Author : Bruce R. O'Brien
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512805222

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God's Peace and King's Peace by Bruce R. O'Brien Pdf

Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been spoken to William shortly after the Conquest by "English nobles who were wise men and learned in their law," recounting "the rules of their laws and customs" for the invading Norman king. When they had finished, the king wondered whether it might not be better for all of them to live under the law of his Viking ancestors; the English, however, protested that they preferred to live by their own preconquest laws. The king acquiesced, and thus, goes the story, were the laws of King Edward the Confessor authorized. Looking through the lens of this important—if spurious—treatise, God's Peace and King's Peace offers the first ground-level view of English law during the century in which the common law was born. Bruce R. O'Brien compares the Leges Edwardi to other memorials of legal policy and practice from before and after 1066, in both Normandy and England, and advances conclusions about the treatises' reliability on specific points of law. He also shows how the Laws of Edward the Confessor, taken as a record of English law at the conquest, came to be used as authoritative evidence behind the Magna Carta that the king was under the law, and how it was eventually declared a notorious forgery by seventeenth-century antiquaries and Enlightenment historians.

Author : Henry Richards Luard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000219227

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Lives of Edward the Confessor by Henry Richards Luard Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600052737

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The confessor, by the author of 'Michael Cassidy'. by Elizabeth Hardy Pdf

Author : Terry Goodkind
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466890817

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The First Confessor by Terry Goodkind Pdf

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind comes The First Confessor, the prequel to the Sword of Truth In a time before legends had yet been born... Married to the powerful leader of her people, safe among those gifted with great ability, Magda Searus is protected from a distant world descending into war. But when her husband, a man who loved life and loved her, unexpectedly commits suicide, she suddenly finds herself alone. Because she is ungifted herself, without her husband she no longer has standing among her people, and she finds herself isolated in a society that seems to be crumbling around her. Despite her grief, she is driven to find the reasons behind why her husband would do such a thing--why he would abandon her and her people at such a profoundly dangerous time. Though she is not gifted, she begins to discover that there may be more to her husband's suicide than anyone knew. What she finds next, no one is willing to believe. Without anyone to help her, she knows that she must embark on a mission to find a mysterious spiritist, if she even exists, so that she may speak with the dead. This quest may also be her last chance to unravel what is really behind the mysterious events befalling her people. What she discovers along the way is that the war is going far worse than she had known, and that the consequences of defeat will be more terrifying for her and her people than she could have imagined. As mortal peril begin to close in around her, Magda learns that she is somehow the key to her people's salvation. Journey with Magda Searus into her dark world, and learn how true legends are born. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : George Stephens (Author of The Manuscripts of Erde ́ly.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000385865

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Pere la Chaise; Or The Confessor; a Tale of the Times ... by George Stephens (Author of The Manuscripts of Erde ́ly.) Pdf

Author : George Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590941635

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Père La Chaise; or, The confessor, ed. [or rather written] by G. Stephens by George Stephens Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024033912

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Père La Chaise; or, the Confessor: a Tale of the Times. Edited [or rather written] by G. Stephens by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terry Goodkind
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007250837

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Confessor by Terry Goodkind Pdf

The final book in one of the greatest epic adventures of all time: The Sword of Truth, from bestselling fantasy author Terry Goodkind.

Author : Sir Sidney Low,Frederick Sanders Pulling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : NYPL:33433081650214

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The Dictionary of English History by Sir Sidney Low,Frederick Sanders Pulling Pdf