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Great tales from English history - Chaucer
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Great tales from English history - Chaucer
Robert Lacey's Great Tales is accessible history at its finest, based on the latest research and packed with insight, wit and billiant detail.
Praise for Great Tales from English History: Cheddar Man to the Peasants' Revolt
'Beautifully written, full of things you didn't know, and well worth a read if you want a new view on stories you thought you already understood' LIVING HISTORY
'Personalities are the essence of this brilliant book .... If only history lessons at school could have been as entertaining and informative as this' NEWCASTLE SUNDAY SUN
'This is history at its best, well told and entertaining, packed with insight, humour and fascinating detail' NORFOLK JOURNAL
'A great introduction to history and legend' OBSERVER`
It opens with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and flowering of the modern English language on final years of the fourteenth century. It culminates with the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9, when Parliament secured tighter control of the Crown for which it had fought forty years earlier in the battles of the Civil War.
The centuries in between witnessed some of the truly classic stories of English history: Dick Whittington and his elusive cat; an account of the Battle of Agincourt, in which we learn the origins of the V-sign, the notorious 'Agincourt salute'; Joan of Arc; The War of the Roses; William Caxton, whose first printed edition of Chaucer became the most expensive book ever sold - six centuries later; and the tragic tale of the Princes in the Tower.
The Tudor dynasty followed: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries; his daughter Elizabeth and the defeat of the Spanish Armada; Mary Queen of Scots and her Stuart legacy, which, by way of Guy Fawkes, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II and the Great Fire of London, led to the reign of William and Mary.
With his genius for the popular touch, Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to- date research to present a riveting, ongoing narrative, highlighting all the most pivotal ,entertaining and exciting landmarks in the history of our nation.
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