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    Warrior King

    by Tom Licence ...
    Series series The English Monarchs Series
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  • What the Victorians Threw Away

    by Tom Licence ...
    The people who lived in England before the First World War now inhabit a realm of yellow photographs. Theirs is a world fast fading from ours, yet they do not appear overly distant. Many of us can remember them as being much like ourselves. Nor is it too late for us to encounter them so intimately that we might catch ourselves worrying that we have invaded their privacy. Digging up their refuse is ... Read more

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  • Edward the Confessor

    Last of the Royal Blood

    by Tom Licence ...
    Series series The English Monarchs Series
    An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066"In putting flesh back on Edward’s bones Licence has brought a new succession story to popular attention."—Leanda de Lisle, The Times“This fine biography of Edward the Confessor is both entertaining and elegiac.”—Nicholas Vincent, The TabletOne of the last kings of An... ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Harold

    Warrior King

    by Tom Licence ...
    Narrated by Gildart Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 5 min

    An authoritative life of Harold II, the king who died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066Harold Godwinson is renowned as the king who lost England to the invading William the Conqueror in 1066. Infamous legends, invented by the Victorians, surround his life, corrupting our idea of him. But who was the real Harold II?In this major new biography, Tom Licence reveals the truth behind the nineteenth ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Liturgical Sermons

    The Reading-Cluny Collection, 2 of 2; Sermons 134–182; and A Sermon Upon the Translation of Saint Edward, Confessor

    Translated by Daniel Griggs, Tom Licence ...
    Series Book 87 - Cistercian Fathers Series
    Aelred (1110–1167) served Rievaulx Abbey, the second Cistercian monastery in England, for twenty years as abbot. During his abbacy he wrote thirteen treatises, some offering spiritual guidance and others seeking to advise King Henry II. He also wrote thirty-one sermons as a commentary on Isaiah 13–16 and 182 surviving liturgical sermons, mostly addressed to his monks.This volume contains the ... Read more

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  • The Handbook

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    Writing to a Roman layman and enquiring Christian named Lawrence in AD 421, Augustine intended The Handbook: A Guide on Faith, Hope, and Love as a guide for catechesis and spiritual development. In this strikingly concise book, he breaks down Christian life to its most basic elements–faith, hope, and love–and by examining these central commitments he provides one of the most accessible and direct ... Read more

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  • A History of the Kitchen

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