The King and Mrs. Simpson
Author | : Erin Frances Schulz |
Publisher | : W.S. Beetle & Co. |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780979178306 |
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Author | : Erin Frances Schulz |
Publisher | : W.S. Beetle & Co. |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780979178306 |
Author | : Mark Truesdale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2018-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351106678 |
King and Commoner tales were hugely popular across the late medieval and early modern periods, their cultural influence extending from Robin Hood ballads to Shakespearean national histories. This study represents the first detailed exploration of this rich and fascinating literary tradition, tracing its development across deeply politicized fifteenth-century comic tales and early modern ballads. The medieval King and Commoner tales depict an incognito king becoming lost in the forest and encountering a disgruntled commoner who complains of class oppression and poaches the king’s deer. This is an upside-down world of tricksters, violence, and politicized feasting that critiques and deconstructs medieval hierarchy. The commoners of these tales utilize the inversion of the medieval carnival, crowning themselves as liminal mock kings in the forest while threatening to rend and devour a body politic that would oppress them. These tales are complex and ambiguous, reimagining the socio-political upheaval of the late medieval period in sophisticated ruminations on class relations. By contrast, the early modern ballads and chapbooks see the tradition undergo a conservative metamorphosis. Suppressing its more radical elements amid a celebration of proto-panoptical kings, the tradition remerges as royalist propaganda in which the king watches his thankful subjects through the keyhole.
Author | : John Alfred Langford |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1870 |
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Author | : Richard Church |
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Total Pages | : 1 |
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Author | : John Alfred Langford |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1870 |
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Author | : Peter Conradi |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1643132695 |
The broadcast that George VI made to the British nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939—which formed the climax of the multi-Oscar-winning film The King's Speech—was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic, Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch's side.The King's War follows that relationship through the dangerous days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-Day to eventual victory in 1945—and beyond. Like the first book, it is written by Peter Conradi, a London Sunday Times journalist, and Mark Logue (Lionel's grandson), and again draws on exclusive material from the Logue Archive—the collection of diaries, letters, and other documents left by Lionel and his feisty wife, Myrtle. This gripping narrative provides a fascinating portrait of two men and their respective families—the Windsors and the Logues—as they together face the greatest challenge in Britain's history.
Author | : John Alfred Langford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2020-04-24 |
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ISBN | : 9780461797817 |
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Author | : David Field |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9781913028855 |
Author | : Jeremy Popkin |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2019-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465096670 |
From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and Black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror. Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins will stand as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.
Author | : Vivek Wagle |
Publisher | : One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9388942639 |
Circa 800 BC: Merit or birth? Meritocracy or dynastic monarchy? King Sarthak of the mighty kingdom of Manukeshwar faces this great dilemma in naming his successor. The contenders to the throne are the upright and virtuous Kanishka, son of a learned Rishi, and his own firstborn, the selfish and arrogant Prince Jaivant. Breaking centuries of oppressive tradition, the King names the valorous commoner as heir. Humiliated and aggrieved, Jaivant bides his time. Using age-old deceit and treachery, he succeeds in usurping the throne. But he does not anticipate the resolve of the ascetic warrior. The stage is set for a mighty struggle. Through an interlinked web of events and emotion, through love, envy, deceit and romance, the book tells the story of a crusade to restore dharma in a kingdom afflicted by despotic dynastic rule. Sattva Rajas Tamas is the story of powerful opposing forces. It is also the tale of a man’s remarkable resolve to keep fighting for truth and justice, to never give up. The ancient tale has disconcerting parallels in our modern times. Though the times have changed, the conflict between dharma and adharma has not.