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Anne of France: Lessons for my Daughter

Author: Sharon L. Jansen

Published: 2004

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Anne of France (1461-1522), daughter of Louis XI and sister of Charles VIII, was one of the most powerful women of the fifteenth century. She was referred to by her contemporaries as Madame la Grande, and remained an active and influential figure in France throughout her life. As the fifteenth century drew to a close, Anne composed a series of enseignements, 'lessons', for her daughter Suzanne of Bourbon. hardback ISBN 978-1-843-84016-9

Price: £35.00

Charles the Bold

Author: Richard Vaughan

Published: 2004

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Charles the Bold (1467-1477) was the last of the great Dukes of Burgundy. This historical and biographical work assesses his personality and role as ruler, and discusses his relationship with his subjects and neighbours. It describes and analyses his policies, giving particular attention to his imperial plans and projects and his clash with the Swiss. The armies, the court and Burgundian clients and partisans are given separate treatment. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15918-8

Price: £19.99

Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine

Author: Richard Barber

Published: 2003

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Edward, prince of Wales and Aquitaine, known as the Black Prince, is one of the legendary figures of English history, victor of three great battles and a model of chivalry and courtesy. Behind this image, which many of his contemporaries accepted and eagerly believed in, it is difficult to get at the realities of his character and of the life that he led. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15686-6

Price: £19.99

Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World

Author: Donald F. Fleming

Published: 2007

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

It is a testament to C. Warren Hollister's ongoing influence that the reign of Henry I, until his work on the period relatively neglected, is now a vibrant field of inquiry - to which this collection, a special volume of the Haskins Society Journal dedicated to his memory, makes a significant contribution. hardback ISBN 978-1-843-83293-5

Price: £50.00

Henry II: New Interpretations

Author: Christopher Harper-Bill

Published: 2007

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Henry II is the most imposing figure among the medieval kings of England. His fiefs and domains extended from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, and his court was frequented by the greatest thinkers and men of letters of his time, besides ambassadors from all over Europe. hardback ISBN 978-1-843-83340-6

Price: £55.00

Henry Plantagenet

Author: Richard Barber

Published: 2003

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Henry II is the most imposing figure among the medieval kings of England. His fiefs and domains extended from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, and his court was frequented by the greatest thinkers and men of letters of his time, besides ambassadors from all over Europe. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15993-5

Price: £8.99

John Russell, First Earl of Bedford

Author: D. Willen

Published: 1981

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

A scholarly biography which considers Russell's contribution to the Tudor state on both the national and the local level. His career offers important insights into the reign of Henry VIII. hardback ISBN 978-0-901-05060-1

Price: £40.00

King John

Author: S.D. Church

Published: 2007

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The reign of King John [1199-1216] is one of the most controversial in English history. When he succeeded to Richard the Lionheart's lands, he could legitimately claim to rule half modern France as well as England and Ireland; butby the time of his death his dominion lay in tatters, and his subjects had banded together to restrict his powers as king under the Magna Carta and to overthrow him in favour of the son of the king of France. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15947-8

Price: £16.99

Margaret of Anjou

Author: Helen E. Maurer

Published: 2005

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeare's rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. paperback ISBN 978-1-843-83104-4

Price: £16.99

Matilda of Scotland

Author: Lois L. Huneycutt

Published: 2003

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Matilda of Scotland was the daughter of Malcolm II of Scotland and his Anglo-Saxon queen Margaret. Her marriage to Henry I of England in 1100 thus brought to Henry, descendant of the conquering Normans, a direct and politically desirable link to Matilda's ancestor Alfred the Great. hardback ISBN 978-0-851-15994-2

Price: £40.00

Philip the Bold

Author: Richard Vaughan

Published: 2005

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Eminently readable. More than a narrative history; Vaughan's explorations of the administrative and financial structures underpinning ducal authority, and of the court and its culture, are integral. There are no comparable, modern, in-depth studies of these players on the late medieval European stage. Four distinguished scholars contribute an introductory chapter for each ducal reign. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15915-7

Price: £19.99

Philip the Good

Author: Richard Vaughan

Published: 2004

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Under Philip the Good, grandson of the founder of the duchy's power, Burgundy reached its apogee. Professor Vaughan portrays not only Philip the Good himself, perhaps the most attractive personality among the four great dukes, but the workings of the court and of one of the most efficent - if not necessarily the most popular - administrations in fifteenth-century Europe. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15917-1

Price: £19.99

The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745

Author: Toby Barnard

Published: 2000

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

A valuable insight into the political and material world of Ireland's leading aristocratic family. For much of their lives the two dukes of Ormonde dominated public events in Ireland, where they served the English sovereign as viceroy five times; they were also powerful presences in the Stuart court in England, and commanded armies both in Ireland and Europe. hardback ISBN 978-0-851-15761-0

Price: £55.00

The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince

Author: Richard Barber

Published: 2002

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Edward of Woodstock, eldest son of Edward III, known as the Black Prince, is one of those heroes of history books so impressive as to seem slightly unreal. At sixteen he played a leading part in the fighting at Crcy; at twenty-six he captured the king of France at Poitiers; and eleven years later he restored Pedro of Castile to histhrone at the battle of Najera. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15469-5

Price: £16.99

The Lost King of England

Author: Gabriel Ronay

Published: 2007

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

When Edward Ironside was murdered in 1016, Canute the Dane seized the crown of Wessex. The following year, conscious of the threat posed to his rule by Edmund's small sons, Edmund and Edward Atheling, he banished them to Sweden, with a `letter of death'. The Swedish king, however, spared their lives, and the Continental wanderings of the Anglo-Saxon princes began; their uncertain fate greatly exercised the minds of contemporary English chroniclers. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15785-6

Price: £19.99

The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681-85

Author: Grant Tapsell

Published: 2007

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This book is concerned with political culture, government, and religion during the personal rule of Charles II, the period between the dissolution of his last English Parliament in 1681 and his death in 1685. The author argues that the nature of this phase of Stuart personal rule was different to that of Charles I in 1629-40. hardback ISBN 978-1-843-83305-5

Price: £55.00

The Word of a Prince

Author: Maria Perry

Published: 1999

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

A new approach to historical biography - she has studied both the original sources and recent works of scholarship and has a thorough understanding of the period. SUNDAY TIMES Until Maria Perry began her exploration of Elizabeth's papers, this vivid raw material had only been partially studied. From it, a fresh portrait of Elizabeth emerges, one which is often more cohesive and less baffling than some offered by her biographers. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15633-0

Price: £17.99


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