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Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf(2014) DUFFY, SEANBrian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf offers a new interpretation of the role of the Vikings in Irish affairs and explains how Brian emerged from obscurity to attain the high-kingship of Ireland because of his exploitation of the Viking presence.Vezava: Mehka26,62 €
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Invectives(2004) PETRARCA, FRANCESCOFrancesco Petrarca (1304–1374), one of the greatest Italian poets, was also a leader in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. This new critical edition of the Invectives, intended to revive the eloquence of Cicero, areVezava: Trda47,68 €
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Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200(2016) O CROININ, DAIBHI (CHANGED TO CHEQUE TO RELEASE PAYMENT FROM SAP)Vezava: Mehka78,74 €
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Byzantine Christianity(2017) CAMERON, PROF. DAME AVERILConcise historical introduction to Byzantine Christianity and its continuing influence on the world and how we see itVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Lives of the Great Languages(2021) MALLETTE, KARLAThe story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters.Vezava: Mehka58,93 €
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Thomas Becket(2013) GUY, JOHNThomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. Son of a draper's merchant, he was befriended and favoured by Henry II and quickly ascended the rungs of power and privilege. He led 700 knights into battle, brokered peace between warring states andVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Katherine Swynford(2008) WEIR, ALISONKatherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. This book rescues Katherine from the footnotes of history, highlighting her key dynastic position within the English monarchy.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Harold(2010) WALKER, IAN W.King Harold Godwineson is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King sets out to correct this distorted image by presenting Harold's life in its proper context, offeVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table(2022) MATTHEWS, JOHNThe most famous and influential work of English fantasy ever published, reimagined for a new generation of readers by John Matthews, one of the world’s leading Arthurian experts, and illustrated by internationally acclaimed Tolkien artist, John Howe.Vezava: Trda42,06 €
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Anne Neville(2007) HICKS, PROF MICHAELAnne Neville was queen to England’s most notorious king, Richard III. This fascinating new biography seeks to tell the story of Anne’s life in her own right, and uncovers the real wife of Richard III by charting the remarkable twists and turns of her frauVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Blood and Roses(2005) CASTOR, HELENThe Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485, four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. ThVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Restless Republic(2022) KEAY, ANNATHE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king.Vezava: Trda35,05 €
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Going to Church in Medieval England(2022) ORME, NICHOLASAn engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth centuryVezava: Mehka24,70 €
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Pocket Magna Carta(2016)The Latin text of Magna Carta (the 1217 issue of Henry III) is reproduced, together with a modern translation and an introduction which traces the background to the making of the charter and its subsequent revisions through the centuries. It also explainsVezava: Trda10,80 €
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First Kingdom(2021) ADAMS, MAXAn investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Aedan of the Gaels(2022) KEITH, COLEMAN,First biography of the first king known to be anointed in the Britian.Vezava: Trda28,04 €
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Philippa of Hainault(2022) WARNER, KATHRYNNew paperback edition - Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation. The first biography of a remarkable and influential English queen.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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King John, Henry III and England's Lost Civil War(2021) DAVIS, JOHN PAULThis is the story of how the varying actions of two very different kings both threatened and created the English way of life, and ultimately put England on the path to its Lost Civil War.Vezava: Trda35,05 €