Télécharger le livre :  Superstition and Science

'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf power, of honour and omnipotenceIs promised to the studious artisan.'Christopher Marlowe, Dr FaustusBetween the Renaissance...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2017-05-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabethan Society

The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare (2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death), and it was a...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2014-05-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Plantagenets

England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but also most...
Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2014-01-02

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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief History of Circumnavigators

"Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the planet but within...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-08-22
Collection : Brief Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Sir Francis Walsingham

During the brief reign of the Queen Mary, Walsingham was a Protestant exile in Italy. Returning home when Elizabeth assumed the throne, from 1570 he became a diplomat to the arch-pragmatist Queen. He was often troubled by her inconsistent policy decisions and for...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2013-07-25

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Télécharger le livre :  The Uncrowned Kings of England

In the political ferment of the Tudor century one family above all others was always at the troubled centre of court and council. During those years the Dudleys were never far from controversy. Three of them were executed for treason. They were universally condemned as...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2013-07-25

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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief History of Henry VIII

Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of Holbein,Henry Tudor stands proud as one of the most powerful figures in renaissance Europe. But is the portrait just a bluff?In his brilliant new...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-02-07
Collection : Brief Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Cumberland's Cradle

Lanner Castle is a forbidding gothic building on an island in tiny Loch Huich. The locals know little about its present owner, the reclusive Mr Robertson, except that he is wealthy, writes antiquarian books and owns most of the comprehensive accumulation of torture...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Camargue Brotherhood

At a meeting in East London, art dealer Catherine Lacy is shown six paintings from a previously undiscovered artist, Aristide Bertrand, who moved in the same circles as Van Gogh. She is enormously excited, but her husband, security expert Tim Lacy, is less than...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Borgia Chalice

One of the most fabulous treasures of the Renaissance, the Borgia Chalice, carries with it a dark aura - for legend has it that the notorious Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, could use this cup to poison his enemies, yet drink from it himself without harm.Security...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Tripletree

On a sultry summer night in the Cotswolds, Nathaniel and Katherine Gye are guests at a Civil War fancy-dress party. The theme of the occasion is apt because Tripletree, the Jacobean manor house where the event is being held, is steeped in history and enjoys a colourful...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Nature of Rare Things

When paranormal investigator and Cambridge lecturer Dr. Nathaniel Gye is commissioned at a séance to find a dead man's killer, he dismisses the incident as a clumsy fraud by a fake medium. But when Nathaniel's own wife disappears in Italy, an eventuality foretold by the...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Unquiet Spirit

A haunting in St. Thomas's College, Cambridge bitterly divides the college, and the Cambridge branch of the Psychic Investigation Unit is invited to carry out an experiment to settle the unrest. But when the main opponent of the plan, Professor Hawkridge, insists on...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Hellfire Papers

When the Master of St Mary's House, Cambridge, hires Tim Lacy to retrieve a collection of eighteenth-century documents willed to it by a wealthy past member of the college, he omits to mention that these manuscripts have a possible connection with the suicide of the...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Triarchs

The first case for Tim Lacy, ex-SAS officer, security expert and well-respected figure in the art world, a circle made up of dubious dealers, unscrupulous collectors, fraudsters, crime bosses and bona fide connoisseurs, all in pursuit of the rare, the beautiful and the...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Dresden Text

When the Dresden Text - a treasured fragment of medieval illuminated manuscript - is stolen from a prestigious New York gallery, its loss hits Tim Lacy hard. His firm was responsible for the safety of the exhibits but even more devastatingly, a colleague was killed...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief History of the English Reformation

Religion, politics and fear: how England was transformed by the Tudors.The English Reformation was a unique turning point in English history. Derek Wilson retells the story of how the Tudor monarchs transformed English religion and why it still matters today. Recent...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-06-21
Collection : Brief Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Mammoth Books presents The Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity

Watson begrudgingly visits relatives in Oxford only to find a case he did not know existed. He learns his dear friend was never at liberty to share the tale. Years have passed since the affair and with Holmes's passingWatson feels obliged to know the story.Watson is...
Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2012-05-17
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Calamities, Catastrophes and Cock Ups

They say that history is written by the winners. Not according to Derek Wilson. In this fascinating, revelatory book, Derek Wilson tells the story from the point of view of the losers - collating a catalogue of calamities and catastrophes which have shaped our world...
Editeur : Short Books
Parution : 2011-09-01

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