azw3 |eng | 2016-08-24 | Author:Marc Morris [Morris, Marc]

8 Enemies Foreign and Domestic The fall of Ely in 1071 marks an important turning point in William’s life, and not just because it proved to be the last English ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Horace Kephart [Kephart, Horace]

“At thirty a mountain woman is apt to have a worn and faded look” In a climate where it showers about two days out of three through spring and summer ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-09-14 | Author:Levi Roach [Roach, Levi]

The ‘Palace Revolution’, 1005–6 If the Massacre of St Brice’s Day was meant to alleviate the kingdom’s problems, it seems to have had if anything the reverse effect. In 1003–4 ...

azw3 |eng | 2020-07-29 | Author:Nicholas Vincent [Vincent, Nicholas]

4 The Worst of All Our Kings Tyranny Unmasked? Combining the tastes of Caligula with the morals of an absconding bookmaker, King John is popularly perceived as a monster: in ...

azw3 |eng | 2001-05-31 | Author:Bertram Wolffe [Wolffe, Bertram]

1 Stevenson, Wars, I, 151–2. 2 Ibid., 118. 3 Ibid., 109. 4 Ibid., 116. 5 Over two dozen examples of this correspondence are recorded in print, most of them by ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:David Bates [Bates, David]

A SHORT VISIT TO NORMANDY Although it is not mentioned in the literary sources, William and Matilda must have crossed to Normandy in the autumn of 1068 and spent Christmas ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:Christopher Given-Wilson [Given-Wilson, Christopher]

4 ‘Make it Your Business that We Become Rich’ Edward’s triumph in 1321–2 gave him the opportunity to establish strong and responsible rule in England. Despite the return of the ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-12-28 | Author:James Ross [Ross, James]

3 Collapse and Catastrophe, 1453–1461 In early August 1453, at the royal hunting lodge of Clarendon near Salisbury, Henry VI lost his senses. He would never fully recover them. The ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Christopher Allmand [Allmand, Christopher]

1 M. Harvey, Solutions to the Schism. A study of some English attitudes, 1378 to 1409 (Sankt Ottilien, 1983), p. 196. 2 Cited by E.F. Jacob, Essays in the conciliar ...

azw3 |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Michael Prestwich [Prestwich, Michael]

One element of Edward's policy in Gascony which was strikingly successful, was the creation of the bastides. The founding of new towns was a feature of his activities in Wales, ...

azw3 |eng | 1998-01-20 | Author:Charles Ross [Ross, Charles]

1 Rymer, Foedera, XI, 760; Morice, Mémoires de Bretagne, III, 246–9 (for text of treaty); Pocquet du Haut-Jussé, 172–3. 2 For a contemporary account of his visit, see ‘The Record ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:W Mark Ormrod [Ormrod, W Mark]

Chapter 14 THE RANSOMING OF RULERS , 1356–1360 If any confirmation was needed of the invincibility of English arms after the time of Crécy and Neville's Cross, then the battle ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Philip Ziegler [Ziegler, Philip]

5 The King at War What was a king supposed to do in wartime in the twentieth century? Clearly George VI was not going to lead his troops into battle, ...

azw3 |eng | 1999-06-09 | Author:E. A. Smith [Smith, E. A.]

Chapter 14 REBELLIOUS DAUGHTER One of the major causes of George’s unpopularity as Regent was his supposed cruel treatment of his daughter Charlotte. She was growing up to be a ...

azw3 |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:J. J. Scarisbrick [Scarisbrick, J. J.]

Primary responsibility for the conduct of Henry's affairs at the Curia lay with two English envoys, William Benet and Edward Carne, able and stout‐hearted men, but of small status – ...