The Bear's Whelp: The Autobiography of Robert Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick and Earl of Leicester in the Holy Roman Empire

Literature & Fiction

WILSON, Derek

Genre Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

1st edition Hutchinson 2003 hardcover fine condition book in fine dw. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

All The King's Women

History

Ted Smart

Historian Edward Gibbons said: “Europe dates a new era from Charlemagne’s restoration of the Western Empire. Now, leading biographer Derek Wilson has written a major life of the man who was the bridge between the ancient world and the world of the emerging and powerful Europe.This Frankish chieftain was born in 742, son of Pepin the Short. Charlemagne, while repeating the military exploits of Julius Caesar, possessed a mind ignorant of classical culture. He ruled with the sagacity of a Marcus Aurelius, but the general who could order the summary dispatch of 4,500 was equally reminiscent of Caligula.Even so, his activities were not confined to warfare. He introduced jury courts, revised the legal system, introduced new coinage, reformed weights and measures, and furthered missionary enterprises and monastic reform. He even began a German grammar and promised religious instruction in the vernacular.Charlemagne lives on as dramatically in legend, particularly in the Chanson de Bland, and his quarter century of imperial splendour is a truly incredible adventure story.

Charlemagne: The Great Adventure

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Hutchinson

Leading biographer, Derek Wilson, explores the many facets of Peter I, Emperor of all the Russias; his physicality, his energetic personality, his intelligence and his cruelty. But the political achievements of this monumental figure are what have inspired generations of historians and ordinary people.

Peter the Great

A revelatory biography of a remarkable Renaissance man whose rationalist convictions changed not only the post-Reformation Church in Europe but also the individual’s relationship to society.On Halloween 1517, Martin Luther nailed to the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church his 95 Theses protesting papal indulgences. It is one of the ironies of history that at the very moment when Charles V came to rule over a European empire which was, for the first time, as large as that controlled by Charlemagne, a young Saxon monk irrevocably shattered its very raison d’être. Luther’s solitary stand against the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor at the Diet of Worms in 1521, and his magnificent German translation of the Bible in the 1530s secured his place in history as one of the greatest religious thinkers of all time. His vast oeuvre (over 70 volumes) sprang from one idea — that believers are saved by faith alone and not works — and incited the world’s biggest evangelical revival, provoking the re-thinking of deep-seated ideas about church and state, government and the individual, war and peace.But was Luther a humanitarian and champion of individual freedom or was he a defender of state tyranny who sparked a century of religious wars? In Out of the Storm Derek Wilson offers a fresh assessment of Luther’s place in history and in so doing, shows how the world was changed forever by this deeply passionate, intelligent and courageous man.

Out of the Storm: The Life of Martin Luther

The story of Henry VIII and his six wives is a well-known example of the caprice and violence that dominated that KingÆs reign. Now renowned historian Derek Wilson examines a set of relationships that more vividly illustrate just how dangerous life was in the court of the Tudor lion. He tells the interlocking stories of six menùall curiously enough named Thomasùwhose ambitions and principles brought them face to face with violent death, as recorded in a simple mnemonic: "Died, beheaded, beheaded, Self-slaughtered, burned, survived."

In the Lion's Court

Europe

Good, unused copy. DW has some minor shelf wear - overall, good copy.

The King and the Gentleman

Leaders & Notable People

RANDOM HOUSE UK

The Tower of London, since William the Conqueror began to build the White Tower in 1078, has an important part in British history as a fortress, palace, prison, place of execution, zoo, mint and jewel house. Recent discoveries have changed our understanding of the history and archaeology of the building and the author of this study incorporates recent information and anecdotes about those who, for whatever reason, have found themselves residing in the Tower.

Tower of London

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

In 1577, five tiny ships with 164 men set sail from Plymouth. At that time, Francis Drake had no idea that he was embarking on the greatest personal maritime adventure ever, nor that he would circumnavigate the globe. No mariner had attempted the feat for fifty years; no captain had ever successfully negotiated all the world’s uncharted oceans to bring his vessel safely home let alone bring back enough gold and silver in her hold to meet the expenditure of the government for a whole year and to give the voyage’s backers a 4,700% return on their investment.The World Encompassed is a stirring day-to-day account of Drake’s great voyage, an exciting story of courage, braggadocio and magnificent seamanship, re-told in detail by a master historical narrator, with the page-turning compulsion of an adventure novel - and every word is true.

The world encompassed: Drake's great voyage, 1577-1580

Travelers & Explorers

Hamilton

The Mayflower Pilgrims: Sifting Fact from Fable

The voyage of the 'Pilgrim Father' from Plymouth, England, and their settlement in Plymouth, New England, is iconic. Unfortunately. Why unfortunately? Because icons both simplify and glamorize. The Mayflower story is a gilded myth, a historical episode seen through the distorting lens of nationalism. Of all the accounts of New World colonization in the 16th/17th centuries this is the one that has come to typify those qualities today's US citizens admire and believe their nation stands for. The 102 men, women and children who made that journey in the autumn of 1620 would not have recognized themselves in the heroes and heroines portrayed in films and romantic novels over the last century or so. In Mayflower Pilgrims Derek Wilson strips away the over-painting from the icon in order to discover who the Pilgrim 'Fathers’ (a term not invented until 1840) were, and to explain them against the background of the age in which they lived. He does this by exploring a series of probing questions, each of which narrows the focus until the travelers on the storm-tossed Mayflower stand before us clearly delineated.

Religion & Spirituality

SPCK Publishing

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