The Pageant Of England Complete Plantagenets Series

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1707 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547733621

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The Pageant of England (Complete Plantagenets Series) by Thomas B. Costain Pdf

The Pageant of England is a four volume collection by Thomas B. Costain which covers the late medieval history of England. The series starts with the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 and closes with the death of Richard III at Bosworth. George R. R. Martin has cited this collection as an influence on his book Fire and Blood, part of Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. The Conquering Family The Magnificent Century The Three Edwards The Last Plantagenets

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1706 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547790020

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The Pageant of England (Complete Plantagenets Series) by Thomas B. Costain Pdf

The Pageant of England is a four volume collection by Thomas B. Costain which covers the late medieval history of England. The series starts with the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 and closes with the death of Richard III at Bosworth. George R. R. Martin has cited this collection as an influence on his book Fire and Blood, part of Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. The Conquering Family The Magnificent Century The Three Edwards The Last Plantagenets

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307809568

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The Magnificent Century by Thomas B. Costain Pdf

The Magnificent Century, the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272. During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw spectacular advancement in the arts, sciences and theology, as well as in government. Despite all, it was truly a magnificent century. "Combines a love of the subject with factual history. . .a great story." —San Francisco Chronicle A History of the Plantagenets includes The Conquering Family, The Magnificent Century, The Three Edwards and The Last Plantagenets.

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121346

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The Conquering Family by Thomas B. Costain Pdf

A vast and brilliant panorama of love and intrigue, passion and power—told by Costain, the incomparable storyteller at his best. Here is the drama of the men and women of one powerful family who sought to sweep the whole world before them... “BRILLIANT...SWIFT-MOVING...FULL OF ACTION, RICH IN COLOR”—Henry Seidel Canby, Book-of-the-Month Club News “To this Costain has brought all the skill of a prime storyteller. He riots amid the actual happenings in perhaps the most richly dramatic and romantic country we know...A thrilling narrative...history told with all the interest found only in a great novel.”—Salt Lake City Tribune “Crowded with epochal events and grandly heroic personalities...much bloodshed and battle and violence and suffering...lively, fascinating”—Orville Prescott, New York Times “The glorious pageant of England...the most exciting of all stories.”—Christian Herald

Author : Thomas Bertram Costain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0426123433

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The Last Plantagenets by Thomas Bertram Costain Pdf

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547197683

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The Three Edwards: The Pageant of England by Thomas B. Costain Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Three Edwards: The Pageant of England" by Thomas B. Costain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307809551

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The Last Plantagenet by Thomas B. Costain Pdf

There are periods in history when things are seen dimly as through a veil. Such were the years from 1377 to 1485. During this time the Chronicles were silent and the sources of information few. And yet these were eventful years, filled with important, strange, colorful and sometimes mystifying events. The Wars of the Roses were fought; a few men began to preach and a nation began to listen to new beliefs; the stout men of the soil rose against feudal injustices; and the greatest of mysteries grew out of the deaths of two princes in the Tower of London. This is the period covered by Thomas B. Costain in THE LAST PLANTAGENETS. It is not claiming too much to say that here the veil has been raised and that throughout the book a bright light plays on this century of excitement and romance and stories stranger than fiction. Here we read of a king who devoted much of his reign to revenge; of the same young monarch riding out boldly to face the peasants demanding a fairer deal; of the winning of Fair Kate of France by the spectacular warrior king, Henry V; of the emergence of a commoner known in history as the Kingmaker; of a ruler who condemned his brother to death and the carrying out of the sentence, according to public report at the time, by drowning the prince in a butt of wine. By way of climax to the saga of the extraordinary Plantagenets with their brilliant successes, tragic reverses and wild extravagances, the last section of the book is devoted to a summary of the case of Richard III. Was Richard the villainous hunchback of stage and story who had his nephews murdered to clear his way to the throne? Or was he the whipping boy of history, whose voice could not be raised in defense from the grave and whose friends did not dare speak out? All the evidence in this unsolved mystery is gathered up and the author achieves in the telling a mounting tension which has never before, perhaps, been reached. Readers today might well raise their eyes from the perusal of newspaper murders to find in this case the strangest and most gripping story of all. This is the fourth, and last, volume in what Thomas B. Costain originally intended to be a history of England. The three earlier volumes were published under the titles The Conquerors, The Magnificent Century and The Three Edwards. Some time in the future the publishers may combine the four, with some necessary additions, to be issued as a history of the Plantagenet kings.

Author : Thomas Bertram Costain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547790044

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The Last Plantagenets by Thomas Bertram Costain Pdf

The Last Plantagenets is a history book which covers the period from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor. The last Plantagenet monarchs governed in violence and confusion. Kings came and went, deposed or murdered. Princes and nobles slaughtered or were slaughtered in bloody battles or private feuds. It was an era of brilliant successes, tragic reverses and wild extravagance.

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547197416

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The Magnificient Century: The Pageant of England by Thomas B. Costain Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Magnificient Century: The Pageant of England" by Thomas B. Costain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Thomas Bertram Costain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313376531

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The Pageant of England by Thomas Bertram Costain Pdf

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547197201

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The Conquerors: The Pageant of England by Thomas B. Costain Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Conquerors: The Pageant of England" by Thomas B. Costain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Thomas Bertram Costain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1023830792

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The Pageant of England by Thomas Bertram Costain Pdf

Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143124924

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The Plantagenets by Dan Jones Pdf

The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal) The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England’s best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years’ War, when England’s national identity was forged by the sword.

Author : Thomas Penn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439191576

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Winter King by Thomas Penn Pdf

Originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd., 2011.

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066372507

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Son of a Hundred Kings by Thomas B. Costain Pdf

"Son of a Hundred Kings" by Thomas B. Costain is a captivating tale set in the 1890s, revolving around young Ludar Prentice's arrival in Balfour, Ontario. Abandoned and alone, he seeks his mysterious father and finds solace in the kindness of strangers who become his family. As Ludar matures, he embarks on a quest to discover his true identity, intricately woven into the evolving tapestry of Balfour's growth and transformation in the dawning century.