wyszukanych pozycji: 24
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Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance
ISBN: 9781445654935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. When the tall, athletic Edward of York seized the English throne in 1461, he could have chosen any bride he wanted. With his dazzling good looks, few were able to resist his charm and promises. For three years he had a succession of mistresses, while foreign princesses were lined up to be considered for his queen. Then he fell in love. Enter Elizabeth Woodville, a widow five years his elder. While her contemporaries and later historians have been divided over her character, none have denied her beauty. When she petitioned the king to help restore her son's inheritance, the young Edward was...
When the tall, athletic Edward of York seized the English throne in 1461, he could have chosen any bride he wanted. With his dazzling good looks, few ...
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65,53 |
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Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Viginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
ISBN: 9781445660080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf have long been celebrated for their central roles in the development of modernism in art and literature. Vanessa's experimental work places her at the vanguard of early twentieth-century art, as does her role in helping introduce many key names - Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso - to an unsuspecting public in 1910. Virginia took these artistic innovations and applied them to literature, pushing the boundaries of form, narrative and language to find a voice uniquely her own. Yet their private lives were just as experimental. Vanessa's marriage to art critic...
Sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf have long been celebrated for their central roles in the development of modernism in art and literature. Vanes...
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65,53 |
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Henry VIII's Controversial Aunt, Honor Lisle: Her Life, Letters and influence on The Tudor Court
ISBN: 9781399052153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The life of Honor, Lady Lisle, follows a dizzying narrative arc. Born into a West Country family, her second marriage propelled her into Anne Boleyn's court, as the new step-aunt to Henry VIII. Her husband, Arthur, was the illegitimate son of Edward IV, bearing the dangerous surname Plantagenet, one of a few survivors of the old regime. At his side, Honor witnessed tumultuous change in England, before heading out to run the Tudor enclave of Calais. Her surviving letters speak of a happy family, domestic arrangements, clothes and food, as well as including snippets of news about Henry's...
The life of Honor, Lady Lisle, follows a dizzying narrative arc. Born into a West Country family, her second marriage propelled her into Anne Boleyn's...
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126,09 |
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Cecily Neville: Mother of Kings
ISBN: 9781445644806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to witness the arrival of the future Henry VIII, her great-grandson. Her life spanned most of the fifteenth century. Cecily's marriage to Richard, Duke of York, was successful, even happy, and she travelled with him wherever his career dictated, bearing his children in England, Ireland and France, including the future Edward IV and Richard III. What was the substance behind her claim to be 'queen by right'? Would she indeed have made a good queen...
Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to witn...
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60,49 |
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Kobiety Henryka VIII
ISBN: 9788367276115 / Polski / broszurowa / 2022 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Jak na monarchę słynącego z tak bujnego życia intymnego, Henryk VIII tradycyjnie przedstawiany jest jako zaskakująco świętoszkowaty. Jednak dla kobiet, które dzieliły z nim łoże, prawda mogła być zupełnie inna. W jaki sposób z dwórek stawały się one królewskimi kochankami i żonami? I jakim kochankiem był naprawdę sam Henryk VIII? Kobiety Henryka w sposób wyjątkowy mogły doświadczać napięć, jakie budziło w nim ścieranie się ze sobą jego rycerskich ideałów z pożądliwością przystojnego, wysokiego, wysportowanego władcy. Jego pierwsze małżeństwo z...
Jak na monarchę słynącego z tak bujnego życia intymnego, Henryk VIII tradycyjnie przedstawiany jest jako zaskakująco świętoszkowaty. Jednak dla...
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65,00 |
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W łożu z Tudorami. Intymne życie dynastii
ISBN: 9788367276214 / Polski / broszurowa / 2023 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. ?Nieślubne dzieci, niewierne królowe, dotknięci impotencją królowie, na których barkach spoczywają losy całej dynastii. Seks i narodziny dzieci całkiem dosłownie stanowiły dla Tudorów kwestię życia lub śmierci Elżbieta York zmarła w wyniku powikłań poporodowych, dwie żony Henryka VIII zostały ścięte za zdradę małżeńską, a dobrowolne dziewictwo Elżbiety I stało się sygnałem zapowiadającym upadek dynastii.Amy Licence zaznajamia czytelnika z okolicznościami narodzin dwóch synów Elżbiety York, Artura i Henryka, późniejszym małżeństwem Katarzyny...
?Nieślubne dzieci, niewierne królowe, dotknięci impotencją królowie, na których barkach spoczywają losy całej dynastii. Seks i narodziny dziec...
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59,99 |
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Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood
ISBN: 9780300260823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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63,49 |
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Tudor Roses: From Margaret Beaufort to Elizabeth I
ISBN: 9781398117297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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75,62 |
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Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200
ISBN: 9780199592364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the central Middle Ages, English society lavished unprecedented attention on a category of would-be outcasts who repudiated its ambitions and spurned its aspirations. Hermits and recluses (collectively 'anchorites') had their own, very different vision of how life should be lived, and yet nobles retained them on their estates, parishioners did their bit to support their local recluses, and every tier of society from the peasantry up to royalty journeyed to rural hermitages for prayer, advice, and spiritual instruction. Anchorites were everywhere, dotted across the landscape, striving to...
In the central Middle Ages, English society lavished unprecedented attention on a category of would-be outcasts who repudiated its ambitions and spurn...
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527,24 |
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Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest
ISBN: 9781843839316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. -Bury St Edmunds is noteworthy in so many ways: in preserving the cult and memory of the last East Anglian king, in the richness of its archives, and not least in its role as a mediator of medical texts and studies. All these aspects, and more, are amply illustrated in this collection, by specialists in their fields. The balance of the whole work, and the care taken to place the individual topics in context, has resulted in a satisfying whole, which places Abbot Baldwin and his abbey squarely in the forefront of eleventh-century politics and society.- Professor Ann Williams. The abbey of Bury...
-Bury St Edmunds is noteworthy in so many ways: in preserving the cult and memory of the last East Anglian king, in the richness of its archives, and ...
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464,34 |
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False Mistress
ISBN: 9780854950836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,99 |
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Troubled Queen: A gripping saga set in the Anne Boleyn era
ISBN: 9781800557239 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,99 |
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1520: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
ISBN: 9781398100466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The five hundredth anniversary of a momentous and spectacular meeting between two rival Renaissance monarchs; a failed bid for peace in Europe.
The five hundredth anniversary of a momentous and spectacular meeting between two rival Renaissance monarchs; a failed bid for peace in Europe.
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100,88 |
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1520: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
ISBN: 9781398115415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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55,44 |
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The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women
ISBN: 9781399083829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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126,09 |
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Herman the Archdeacon and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: Miracles of St Edmund
ISBN: 9780199689194 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. St Edmund was medieval England's patron saint, and at his abbey, two major Latin miracle collections were compiled: one in the 1090s by Herman the Archdeacon, an historian trained in the schools of Lorraine; the other c. 1100 by an anonymous hagiographer who rewrote and expanded Herman's work.
Herman's Miracles, an important text for the history of the realm and East Anglia in particular, is edited and translated here in its full fifty chapters for the first time, along with a shorter version intended for wider circulation. The second miracle collection, never before in print, is also... St Edmund was medieval England's patron saint, and at his abbey, two major Latin miracle collections were compiled: one in the 1090s by Herman the Arc...
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1013,44 |
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The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women
ISBN: 9781399083867 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
85,71 |
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Bohemian Lives: Three Extraordinary Women: Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier
ISBN: 9781445694405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. New paperback edition - The interweaving lives of Ida John, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier: three mould-breaking women who forged modern relationships with extraordinary men (writer Augustus John, and artists Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Picasso).
New paperback edition - The interweaving lives of Ida John, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier: three mould-breaking women who forged modern relation...
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50,40 |
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The York King
ISBN: 9781839012907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,00 |
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Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200
ISBN: 9780199674091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the central Middle Ages, English society lavished unprecedented attention on a category of would-be outcasts who repudiated its ambitions and spurned its aspirations. Hermits and recluses (collectively 'anchorites') had their own, very different vision of how life should be lived, and yet nobles retained them on their estates, parishioners did their bit to support their local recluses, and every tier of society from the peasantry up to royalty journeyed to rural hermitages for prayer, advice, and spiritual instruction. Anchorites were everywhere, dotted across the landscape, striving to...
In the central Middle Ages, English society lavished unprecedented attention on a category of would-be outcasts who repudiated its ambitions and spurn...
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256,35 |