Author: Mary-Jo Arn
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0859915808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Studies of evidence of Charles d'Orleans as scholar, politician and poet during his 25 years of captivity in England
Author: R. D. Perry
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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New investigations into Charles d'Orléans' under-rated poem, its properties and its qualities.
Author: Charles II (King of England)
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 9780720609912
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Charles II was a renowned ladies' man but, arguably his greatest love--though not in the Biblical sense--was his sister Minette. Separated from her in their youth by a royal inter-marriage, his letters reveal a tender and humane side not often seen in biographies of this cunning and calculating monarch.
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521200042
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author: Jenny Uglow
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429964227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 853
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The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness of the court to failed attempts at religious tolerance. Negotiating all these, Charles II, the "slippery sovereign," laid odds and took chances, dissembling and manipulating his followers. The theaters may have been restored, but the king himself was the supreme actor. Yet while his grandeur, his court, and his colorful sex life were on display, his true intentions lay hidden. Charles II was thirty when he crossed the English Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, as spring after the long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no way to turn back, no way he could "restore" the old dispensation. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship had ended with his father's beheading. "Honor" was now a word tossed around in duels. "Providence" could no longer be trusted. As the country was rocked by plague, fire, and war, people searched for new ideas by which to live. And exactly ten years after he arrived, Charles would again stand on the shore at Dover, this time placing the greatest bet of his life in a secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV of France. Jenny Uglow's previous biographies have won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and International PEN's Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. A Gambling Man is Uglow at her best: both a vivid portrait of Charles II that explores his elusive nature and a spirited evocation of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world on the brink of modernity.
Author: Edith Yenal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: American Chemical Society
ISBN: 0199552096
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
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A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.
Author: Hella S. Haasse
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Set in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Haasse's epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the power, passion and political intrigue of the Middle Ages.
Author: Rory G. Critten
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The works of four major fifteenth-century writers re-examined, showing their innovative reconceptualization of Middle English authorship and the manuscript book.
Author: Eleanor Prescott Hammond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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