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The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
by C. W. Gortner
Acclaimed author C. W. Gortner brings Catherine to life in her own voice, allowing us to enter into the intimate world of a woman whose determination to protect her family’s throne and realm plunged her into a lethal struggle for power.
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
by Ian Mortimer
The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a castle or a monastic guest house? And what are you going to eat? What sort of food are you going to be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? This radical new... (more)
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A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury
by Edith Pargeter
It is 1399. Henry Bolingbroke, unjustly banished and deprived of his inheritance by Richard II, returns to claim his rights and deposes the king to become Henry IV of England. He is aided by the powerful lords of Northumberland, especially by his friend, Harry Percy. But the triumph of his accession quickly turns sour in the face of ever-growing crises in his new kingdom, and Wales is the most pressing and... (more)
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The Wars of the Roses
by Alison Weir
"Weir does a masterful job of leading the layman through the entwined family trees of England's powerful families and the many usurpers to the throne. . . . <She> has perfected the art of bringing history to life." --Chicago Tribune Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British throne. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched... (more)
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The Fears of Henry IV
The Life of England's Self-Made King
by Ian Mortimer
An author with a strong track record now tackles the turbulent reign of Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king
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Henry IV, Part I
by William Shakespeare
"King Henry IV, Part I" is one William Shakespeare's classic historical English dramas. The narrative revolves around the rebellion against King Henry IV led by the Welshman Glendower and the Percies. "King Henry IV, Part I" is a play with excellent courtly drama and battlefield action, with a riotous comedic subplot.
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Valois Romances: Book 1
La Reine Margot
by Alexandre Dumas, père
La Reine Margot (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder and duplicity of the French Renaissance. Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action and the engaging generosity of spirit which has made him one of the world's greatest and best-loved story-tellers. This revised edition of the classic translation of 1846 is... (more)
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Kings & Queens of England a Dark History 1066 to Presend Day
The British royal family is considered by many to be the most prestigious in the world. Yet its sensational and often lurid past contains deeds so dark and dastardly that they were covered up and remained secret for centuries . . .
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Catherine de Medici
Renaissance Queen of France
by Leonie Frieda
Poisoner, despot, necromancer -- the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds -- from a troubled childhood in Florence to her marriage to Henry, son of King Francis I of France; from her transformation of French culture to her... (more)
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Evergreen Gallant
by Jean Plaidy
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The Hundred Years War
The English in France, 1337-1453
by Desmond Seward
A remarkable and engrossing account of medieval England's epic conflict with France. From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most... (more)
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A Royal History of England: Book 2
The Wars of the Roses
by Anthony Cheetham
From Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king, to Richard III, The Wars of the Roses follows the history of the kings of the houses of Lancaster and York who shaped this tumultuous period of English history. Anthony Cheetham provides insight into the politics, society, and economy of this time, and above all, he conveys the personal histories and characters of its rulers. About the series A Royal History of... (more)
The First part of King Henry IV (Part I) (The Arden Shakespeare paperbacks)
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Rethinking Theory
The Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria
by Tracy Adams
The fascinating history of Isabeau of Bavaria is a tale of two queens. During her lifetime, Isabeau, the long-suffering wife of mad King Charles VI of France, was respected and revered. After her death, she was reviled as an incompetent regent, depraved adulteress, and betrayer of the throne. Asserting that there is no historical support for this posthumous reputation, Tracy Adams returns Isabeau to her rightful... (more)
King Richard II. Peter Ure (ed). [Subtitle]: (The Arden Edition of the Works of
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Henry IV, Part One (Bantam Classic)William Shakespeare; Editor-David Bevington; Editor-David Scott Kastan
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Henry IV, Part One (Bantam Classic)
by William Shakespeare; Editor-David Bevington; Editor-David Scott Kastan
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Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings Who Invented England
by Dan Jones
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen -- from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt -- this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today -- great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom Holland "Outstanding. Majestic in its sweep, compelling in its storytelling, this is... (more)
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Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: A Source Book (Sutton History Paperbacks)
by Keith Dockray
The final volume in a trilogy of historical source books covering 1450-1485, this work focuses on the reign of Henry VI, whose manifest shortcomings provided a pretext for the start of the Wars of the Roses in the 1450s. The Wars have been viewed as a dynastic struggle, but more recently such interpretation has been rejected. A vigorous debate has flourished concerning the origins and nature of the Wars and this... (more)
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The Clerkenwell Tales
by Peter Ackroyd
From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city’s 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she... (more)
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The English Monarchs Series
Richard II
by Nigel Saul
This book-the first full-length biography of Richard II in more than fifty years-offers a radical reinterpretation of a complex king whose reign was characterized by a mixture of high principle and despotic legislation. Nigel Saul demonstrates that Richards` aim was to exalt and dignify the crown, but in a period of faction and feud his tactical errors and contradictory policies resulted in deposition and... (more)