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  • Richard I

    by Professor John Gillingham ...
    Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a king who neglected his kingdom, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler. In this wholly rewritten version of a classic account of the reign of Richard The Lionheart, John Gillingham scrutinizes the reasons for the King’s fluctuating reputation over successive centuries and provides a convincing new interpretation of the significance of the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • William II (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Red King

    by John Gillingham ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this elegant book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had to establish permanent Norman rule. A ruthless, irascible man, he frequently argued acrimoniously ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • Magna Carta and the England of King John

    by Janet S. Loengard, R V Turner, Barbara A Hanawalt, David Crook, David Crouch, James A Brundage, James Masschaele, John B Gillingham, John Hudson ...
    Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus on social, economic, legal, and religious institutions and attitudes in the early thirteenth century. What was England like between 1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The E.U.

    An Obituary

    by John R. Gillingham ...
    Is Brexit the beginning of the end for the EU?Fully updated and revised, this new edition of John R. Gillingham’s swingeing study explains why the European Union is so profoundly unsuited to the modern political economy. In a devastating historical account of political failure, he takes readers back to the union’s postwar origins, when it was considered the best means to guarantee peace, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Industry and Politics in the Third Reich (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

    Ruhr Coal, Hitler and Europe

    by John Gillingham ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
    When originally published in 1985 this was the first detailed study of business in Nazi Germany. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from government and private archives, the book throws light on the important role played by Germany heavy industry in preserving traditions valuable for the post-Nazi future.Contrary to widely held beliefs, the industrialists of the Ruhr did not master-mind the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare

    Edited by Peter Connolly, John Gillingham, John Lazenby ...
    The Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare provides a comprehensive guide to the battles and wars, commanders, tactics, formations, fortifications, and weapons of war in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, China, and Japan from the beginning of recorded history to the 16th century. More than 3,000 entries, written by expert military historians, cover all aspects of warfare from the ... Read more

    $305.00 USD

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  • Henry I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Father of His People

    by Edmund King ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    'To be a medieval king was a job of work ... This was a man who knew how to run a complex organization. He was England's CEO'The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I came to unchallenged power only after two of his brothers died in strange hunting accidents and he had imprisoned the other. He was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own ... Read more

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  • Richard I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Crusader King

    by Thomas Asbridge ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six months on English soil during a ten-year reign and spoke French as his first language. Contemporaries dubbed him the 'Lionheart', reflecting a carefully cultivated reputation for bravery, prowess and knightly virtue, but ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • Edward II (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Terrors of Kingship

    by Christopher Given-Wilson ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness.'The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favourites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government. His infatuation with a young ... Read more

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  • Stephen (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Reign of Anarchy

    by Carl Watkins ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman monarchy, that without clear rules ordering succession, conflict between members of William the Conqueror's family were inevitable. But there was another problem, too: Stephen himself.With the nobility of England and Normandy anxious about the ... Read more

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  • Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Cosmopolitan King

    by Richard Davenport-Hines ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalties of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and pretty stiff; his no less grand, but much more relaxed and enjoyable. This book conveys Edward's distinct personality and significant influences. To the despair of his parents, he rebelled as a young man, conducting many affairs and living a life of pleasure ... Read more

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