Robert Lacey
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
A vivid portrait of life in England a thousand years ago. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, the authors interview top historians and archaeologists, and they examine the human and social ingredients that were to make for achievement and success in the next thousand years.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In this second volume of short essays, renowned historian Robert Lacey opens with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the flowering of the modern English language in the final years of the 14th century and ends with the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9, when Parlaiment secured control over the Crown. Along the way we hear about Dick Whittington and his cat, the origin of the V sign at Agincourt, The Wars of the Roses and all the pivotal events that...
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search