Delights of Life in Fifteenth-century England
Author | : Albert Compton Reeves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Albert Compton Reeves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sandra Worth |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2008-01-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101158085 |
During her short time as a ward in Queen Marguerite's Lancastrian court, fifteen-year-old Isobel has had many suitors ask for her hand, but the spirited beauty is blind to all but Yorkist Sir John Neville. It is nothing short of a miracle when the Queen allows Isobel's marriage to the enemy, albeit at a hefty price. All around Isobel and John rages a lawless war. It is only their passion that can see them through the bloody siege of London by the Duke of York, the violent madness of Queen Marguerite, and the devolution of Isobel's meek uncle into the Butcher of England. For theirs is an everlasting love that fears not the scratch of thorns, from either the Red Rose or the White.
Author | : Margaret Mackay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joel Thomas Rosenthal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This volume is the first part of Rosenthal's cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian, and Yorkist England, and covers categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts. This volume is a must for any scholar of the period.
Author | : Sandra Worth |
Publisher | : Speaking Volumes |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1645402320 |
Author | : Rosemary Horrox |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521589864 |
A paperback edition of the successful 1994 collection of essays on society in fifteenth-century England.
Author | : Albert Compton Reeves |
Publisher | : Alan Sutton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Despite presumptions to the contrary, the daily life of men and women in late medieval England was not entirely one of toil. This enlightening book looks at how people from all classes of medieval society enjoyed themselves when not about their daily chores. What was it that gave delight in medieval England? Professor Reeves presents a fascinating and highly readable survey of the entertainments and pursuits with which people of the time filled their leisure hours. From the rough and tumble of wrestling and jousting to the more sedate pastimes of chess and cards, from gardening to prostitution and from cock-fighting to religious festivals the book describes with entertaining detail activities of which many remain popular today, though often in different guises. Nor does the author neglect the aesthetic pleasures to be had from painting, literature, jewellery, music and the arts. With its many beautiful illustrations, several in colour, this book offers a sumptuous overview of the delights of medieval life, providing both an eye-opener for scholars and an extremely attractive introduction for the general reader to the pleasures of life in England over five hundred years ago.
Author | : Raluca L. Radulescu |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1782041753 |
Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte Darthur' have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By examining a broad cultural and political framework stretching from Richard II's deposition to the end of the Wars of the Roses through the prism of piety, politics and penitence, the author draws attention to the specific circumstances in which Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Roberd of Cisely, Henry Lovelich's 'History of the Holy Grail' and Malory's 'Morte' were read in fifteenth-century England. In the case of the pious romances this implies a study of their reception long after their original composition or translation centuries earlier; in Lovelich's case, an examination of metropolitan culture leads to an opening of the discussion to French romance models as well as English chronicle writing.
Author | : Percival Hunt |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2010-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822975130 |
From the text: Too often, it is overlooked or its meaning blurred. It comes between the brightness of the 1300's—Chaucer's time—and the time of Elizabeth I. Looking into it, we may be so dazzled by the two bright centuries which bound it that it is a dim space of time with no exact shape or clear colors in it. Yet the whole century was active, practical, strong, unique, humane, searching and changing, mystical."
Author | : Alice Stopford Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 952 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |