Chris Given-Wilson
Editura: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged ...
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Matthew Strickland
Editura: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler ...
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Malcolm Vale
Editura: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare. ...
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Catherine Hanley
Editura: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 1215 a group of English barons, dissatisfied with the weak and despicable King John, decided that they needed a new monarch. They wanted a strong, experienced man, of royal ...
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Scott H. Hendrix
Editura: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin ...
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William Vaughan
Editura: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet William Blake, Palmer brought a new ...
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Editura: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A new biography of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities In his best-selling ...
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Rory Muir
Editura: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
From the leading Wellington historian, a fascinating reassessment of the Duke's most famous victory and his role in the turbulent politics after Waterloo Wellington's ...
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