Dynasty
Title | Dynasty PDF eBook |
Author | John Macleod |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 430 |
Release | 2001-04-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780312272067 |
Offers an irreverent take on the royal family that united Great Britain, chronicling the trials and triumphs of a dynasty that oversaw the rise of English Protestantism and the evolution of modern British democracy.
The Royal Stuarts
Title | The Royal Stuarts PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Massie |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 546 |
Release | 2011-12-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 142995082X |
"Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."--The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.
Horrible Histories: Slimy Stuarts (New Edition)
Title | Horrible Histories: Slimy Stuarts (New Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Deary |
Publisher | Scholastic UK |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2016-03-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 140716189X |
I bet you've never even heard of the Stuarts. They don't sound very terrible, do they? But did you know some slimy Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas?
England Under the Stuarts
Title | England Under the Stuarts PDF eBook |
Author | George Macaulay Trevelyan |
Publisher | London : Methuen |
Total Pages | 630 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts
Title | Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts PDF eBook |
Author | Vaughan Hart |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 514 |
Release | 2002-03-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134876785 |
Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens, architecture and processions. As such, magic of the kind enshrined in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its cosmology, played their part in the complex causes of the Civil War and the destruction of the Stuart image which followed in its wake.
A Court in Exile
Title | A Court in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Edward T. Corp |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 414 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521584623 |
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The Stuarts in Italy, 1719-1766
Title | The Stuarts in Italy, 1719-1766 PDF eBook |
Author | Edward T. Corp |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 429 |
Release | 2011-08-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0521513278 |
This book reassesses the lives of the exiled Stuart Court in Italy which provided an important British presence in Rome.