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Living in Medieval England

The Turbulent Year of 1326

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A month-by-month account of what life was like for the everyday person just before the Black Plague wiped out most of Europe.1326 was one of the most dramatic years in English history. The queen of England, Isabella of France, invaded the country with an army of mercenaries to destroy her husband's powerful and detested lover, Hugh Despenser the Younger, and brought down her husband, King Edward ... Read more

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A month-by-month account of what life was like for the everyday person just before the Black Plague wiped out most of Europe.1326 was one of the most dramatic years in English history. The queen of England, Isabella of France, invaded the country with an army of mercenaries to destroy her husband's powerful and detested lover, Hugh Despenser the Younger, and brought down her husband, King Edward
... Read more

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Edward II's Nieces, The Clare Sisters

Powerful Pawns of the Crown

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"A great book to introduce you to three fascinating sisters whose marriages during the reign of the infamous Edward II transformed England." — Adventures of a Tudor NerdThe de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanish queen Eleanor of Castile, and were the daughters of the greatest nobleman in ... Read more

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"A great book to introduce you to three fascinating sisters whose marriages during the reign of the infamous Edward II transformed England." — Adventures of a Tudor NerdThe de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanish queen Eleanor of Castile, and were the daughters of the greatest nobleman in
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Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II

Downfall of a King's Favourite

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This story of the greatest villain of the 14th century is "a fascinating account of a tangled web of deceit, turmoil, courtly life, war and rebellion" ( Britain Express).Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of England's eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager. Ambitious and greedy to an astonishing degree, Hugh chose a startling route to power: he seduced his wife's uncle, the ... Read more

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This story of the greatest villain of the 14th century is "a fascinating account of a tangled web of deceit, turmoil, courtly life, war and rebellion" ( Britain Express).Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of England's eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager. Ambitious and greedy to an astonishing degree, Hugh chose a startling route to power: he seduced his wife's uncle, the
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Life in the Medieval Town

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An original work of social history focusing on numerous fascinating aspects of life in an English town in the late Middle Ages.Welcome to a world which ordered people not to leave their homes after nightfall and not to let their pigs wander the streets, where butchers who sold bad meat to the public were locked into a pillory with the meat burning beneath them, and where dirt heaps, common scolds, ... Read more

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An original work of social history focusing on numerous fascinating aspects of life in an English town in the late Middle Ages.Welcome to a world which ordered people not to leave their homes after nightfall and not to let their pigs wander the streets, where butchers who sold bad meat to the public were locked into a pillory with the meat burning beneath them, and where dirt heaps, common scolds,
... Read more
Edward II

His Sexuality and Relationships

by Kathryn Warner ...

Edward II is one of the most unsuccessful and unconventional kings in English history, and is well-known for having passionate and probably intimate relationships with men. In modern times, he has often been considered an LGBT+ icon of sorts. Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships looks at the men in the king's life and examines the relations he had with them in the context of medieval notions ... Read more

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Edward II is one of the most unsuccessful and unconventional kings in English history, and is well-known for having passionate and probably intimate relationships with men. In modern times, he has often been considered an LGBT+ icon of sorts. Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships looks at the men in the king's life and examines the relations he had with them in the context of medieval notions
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London, A Fourteenth-Century City and its People

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A resource of information about the cultural, political and social conditions of urban life in the capital of medieval England during the 1300s.For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was ... Read more

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A resource of information about the cultural, political and social conditions of urban life in the capital of medieval England during the 1300s.For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was
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The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family

The Despensers

by Kathryn Warner ...

A historian's fascinating account of two centuries in the lives of the powerful Despensers, famed for tragedy and scandal in medieval England.The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps, lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great ... Read more

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A historian's fascinating account of two centuries in the lives of the powerful Despensers, famed for tragedy and scandal in medieval England.The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps, lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great
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Crusaders and Kings of Jerusalem

The Beaumonts

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Traces the remarkable international history of the Brienne/Beaumont family, spanning from the Crusader states to Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.The Brienne/Beaumonts, a noble family originally from Champagne, spread across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Their story begins with John de Brienne (c. 1175/78-1237), who was the emperor of Constantinople, became king of ... Read more

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Traces the remarkable international history of the Brienne/Beaumont family, spanning from the Crusader states to Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.The Brienne/Beaumonts, a noble family originally from Champagne, spread across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Their story begins with John de Brienne (c. 1175/78-1237), who was the emperor of Constantinople, became king of
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Long Live the King

The Mysterious Fate of Edward II

by Kathryn Warner ...

Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to an Italian hermitage.In Long Live ... Read more

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Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to an Italian hermitage.In Long Live
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Following in the Footsteps of Edward II

A Historical Guide to the Medieval King

by Kathryn Warner ...

"Informed and informative . . . a meticulous example of outstanding scholarship, and an inherently fascinating read." — Midwest Book ReviewEdward II is famously one of England's most unsuccessful kings, as utterly different from his warlike father Edward I as any man possibly could be, and the first English king to suffer the fate of deposition. Highly unconventional, even eccentric, he was an ... Read more

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"Informed and informative . . . a meticulous example of outstanding scholarship, and an inherently fascinating read." — Midwest Book ReviewEdward II is famously one of England's most unsuccessful kings, as utterly different from his warlike father Edward I as any man possibly could be, and the first English king to suffer the fate of deposition. Highly unconventional, even eccentric, he was an
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Daughters of Edward I

by Kathryn Warner ...

A colorful biography of five royal sisters in medieval England.In 1254 the teenage heir to the English throne took a Spanish bride, the sister of the king of Castile, in Burgos. Their marriage of thirty-six years proved to be one of the great royal romances of the Middle Ages.Edward I of England and Leonor of Castile had at least fourteen children together, though only six survived into adulthood, ... Read more

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A colorful biography of five royal sisters in medieval England.In 1254 the teenage heir to the English throne took a Spanish bride, the sister of the king of Castile, in Burgos. Their marriage of thirty-six years proved to be one of the great royal romances of the Middle Ages.Edward I of England and Leonor of Castile had at least fourteen children together, though only six survived into adulthood,
... Read more
Sex & Sexuality in Medieval England

by Kathryn Warner ...

"She incorporates stories from every rank of society, from monarchs to peasants between 1250 and 1450, to tell a sweeping tale of sex and sexuality." — Adventures of a Tudor NerdSex and Sexuality in Medieval England allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieval ancestors, in an informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in England from 1250 to 1450. It examines the ... Read more

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"She incorporates stories from every rank of society, from monarchs to peasants between 1250 and 1450, to tell a sweeping tale of sex and sexuality." — Adventures of a Tudor NerdSex and Sexuality in Medieval England allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieval ancestors, in an informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in England from 1250 to 1450. It examines the
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