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A Hollow Crown
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Author : Helen Hollick
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
A Hollow Crown written by Helen Hollick and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Fiction categories.
Aged only thirteen, Emma, daughter of the Duke of Normandy, is married in a strategic alliance to King Aethelred of England. Inept and arrogant, Aethelred the Unready is loathed by his young wife, whom he punishes for his many failings as a ruler. Their first son, Edward, is born through an act of violence that is little more than rape. England is invaded by the Viking King Swein Forkbeard and his son Cnut. After a bitter struggle, Aethelred loses his kingdom and his wife. Emma, now dowager queen, holds London against the invader Cnut. When he demands she surrender or suffer the consequences, Emma stakes everything on a dangerous gamble, but troubles and tragedy still await the indomitable queen as she struggles for power and for survival in a violent male world... This fascinating historical novel reveals the truth behind the woman who played a key role in the power shift from Saxon to Norman, at a pivotal point in world history.
Within The Hollow Crown
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Author : Margaret Campbell Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Within The Hollow Crown written by Margaret Campbell Barnes and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Fiction categories.
"Within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king..." —Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard II Unlike his father, the Black Prince, or his namesake, King Richard the Lionheart, Richard II never really wanted to be king. But the mantle of royalty is thrust upon his shoulders at age 11, at a time when England is racked by unrest and class warefare. A leader as unexpected as he is inexperienced, young Richard must find a way to triumph over a fierce conflict more destructive than any foreign enemy.Richard's love for his wife, Anne of Bohemia, gave him the strength to outwit the schemes of his enemies and govern as he saw fit, providing England with years of properity under his reign. But when tragedy strikes, Richard begins to loose the common touch by which he had ruled so brilliantly, and begins a downward spiral from which his detractors would derive strength... "Sympathetic picture of sensitive, peace-loving, and ill-beset Richard II, who had it in him to be one of the best kings England ever had."—Booklist "Ms. Barnes captures the flavor, pageantry, and color of the Middle Ages...a distinguished novel." —Philadelphia Inquirer
The Hollow Crown
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Author : Miri Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-01-27
The Hollow Crown written by Miri Rubin and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-27 with History categories.
There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Agincourt. The extraordinary artistic achievements - the great churches, castles and tombs that still dominate the landscape, the birth of the English language in The Canterbury Tales. For the first time in a generation, a historian has had the vision and confidence to write a spell-binding account of the era immortalised by Shakespeare's history plays. THE HOLLOW CROWN brilliantly brings to life for the reader a world we have long lost - a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war - but continues to define so much of England's national myth.
The Hollow Crown
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Author : Dan Jones
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-09-02
The Hollow Crown written by Dan Jones and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with History categories.
'The Hollow Crown is exhilarating, epic, blood-and-roses history . . . Jones's material is thrilling . . . There is fine scholarly intuition on display here and a mastery of the grand narrative; it is a supremely skilful piece of storytelling.' Sunday Telegraph The fifteenth century saw the crown of England change hands seven times as the great families of England fought to the death for power, majesty and the right to rule. The Hollow Crown completes Dan Jones' epic history of medieval England, and describes how the Plantagenets tore themselves apart to be finally replaced by the Tudors. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in British history were thrown together in these turbulent times: Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt and prudent rule at home marked the high point of the medieval monarchy; Edward IV, who was handed his crown by the scheming soldier Warwick the Kingmaker, before their alliance collapsed into a fight to the death; and the last Plantagenet, Richard III, who stole the throne and murdered his own nephews, the Princes in the Tower. Finally, the Tudors arrived - but even their rule was only made certain in the 1520s, when Henry VIII ruthlessly hunted down his family's last remaining enemies. In the midst this tumult, chivalry was reborn, the printing press arrived and the Renaissance began to flourish. With vivid descriptions of the battle of Towton, where 28,000 men died in a single morning, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, at which Richard III was hacked down, this is the real story behind Shakespeare's famous history plays.
The Hollow Crown
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
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From executive producer Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) comes a stunning adaptation of four of Shakespeares most celebrated history plays: Richard II, Henry IV (Part 1 and Part 2), and Henry V. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption, family conflict and betrayal.
The Hollow Crown
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Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
language : en
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Release Date : 1987
The Hollow Crown written by Nicholas B. Dirks and has been published by Orient Blackswan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
The Hollow Crown reconstructs the sociocultural history of a warrior polity in south India between the fourteenth and the twentieth centuries.
The Hollow Crown
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Author : Harold Frederick Hutchison
language : en
Publisher: London : Eyre & Spottiswoode [1961]
Release Date : 1961
The Hollow Crown written by Harold Frederick Hutchison and has been published by London : Eyre & Spottiswoode [1961] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Great Britain categories.
An attempt to readress the overreliance on Lancastrian chronicles to challenge the old fashioned view of Ricahrd 11 as a neurotic failed tyrant. Huthcinson paints a more balanced picture of Richard drawing on sources which were not available to past scholars. Hutchinson argues that while Richard's capacity for coolly plotted revenge provdies the key yo his character, Richard was under great provocation from his barons and was nonetheless a sympathetic figure with great intelligence.
Within The Hollow Crown
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Author : Margaret Campbell Barnes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Within The Hollow Crown written by Margaret Campbell Barnes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with English fiction categories.
Based on the life of Richard II.
Within The Hollow Crown
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Author : Margaret Campbell Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Release Date : 2010
Within The Hollow Crown written by Margaret Campbell Barnes and has been published by Sourcebooks Landmark this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
A leader as unexpected as he is inexperienced, young Richard must find a way to triumph over a fierce conflict more destructive than any foreign enemy.
The Hollow Crown
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Author : Jeff Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: Kingfountain
Release Date : 2017
The Hollow Crown written by Jeff Wheeler and has been published by Kingfountain this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fiction categories.
A Wall Street Journal bestseller. The fourth book in the million-copy bestselling Kingfountain series from Jeff Wheeler. Following the downfall of a tyrant, years have passed in prosperity for the kingdom of Ceredigion. Now, as the time comes to celebrate the new king's nuptials, the specter of a new enemy emerges to destroy all that has been painstakingly built in those years. Tryneowy Kiskaddon has grown up learning military and diplomatic strategy from her father, one of the king's closest advisors. She feels her destiny lies in defending the kingdom as a knight, not as a Wizr as her parents have decided, though no lady of the realm has taken up the sword in a century. As she seeks to understand her own Fountain-blessed powers, she studies in the tradition of her mother while training in secret and closely following the realm's politics, alarmed by her mother's vision of an impending clash and a devastating future. But the pieces on fate's game board are in motion, and on the eve of battle, a threatening force irrevocably changes the future of the kingdom and her own. Does Trynne have what it takes to maneuver Ceredigion's key players into position and outsmart the kingdom's enemies--even those still concealed in shadow?