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Blood and Roses: The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century by Helen Castor
Category: History
A gripping family biography set against the turbulent background of the Wars of the RosesThe War of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the me ...Show more
Elizabeth I: A Study in Insecurity (Penguin Monarchs) by Fellow and Lecturer in History Helen Castor
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of monarchical power. The Virgin Queen ruled over a Golden Age: the Spanish Armada was defeated and England's enemies scattered; English explorers reached almost to the ends of the earth; a new Church of England rose from the ashe ...Show more
Elizabeth I (Penguin Monarchs) by Castor Helen
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Monarchs Ser.
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of monarchical power. The Virgin Queen ruled over a Golden Age: the Spanish Armada was defeated; English explorers reac ...Show more
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
Category: History
The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the English. Eventually captured and ...Show more
Joan of Arc: A History (US HB) by Helen Castor
Category: Biography
Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would b ...Show more
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
Category: History
"Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding." --Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall In the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a ...Show more
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