Record details

• ISBN: 9781250003614
• ISBN: 125000361X
• Physical Description: ix, 486 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
• Edition: First United States edition
• Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"First published in Great Britain by Macmillan"--title page verso.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-464) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Hymns of stone -- The Roman way -- Climate change -- Spear points -- The blood eagle -- The measure of the king -- The coming of the conquerors -- The house -- Devils and wicked men -- The road -- The law is lost -- The names -- The turbulent priest -- The lost village -- The great charter -- Crime and punishment -- A simple king -- The seasonal year -- The emperor of Britain -- The hammer -- The favourites of a king -- Birth and death -- The sense of a nation -- The night schools -- The commotion -- Into the woods -- The suffering king -- Old habits -- The warrior -- How others saw us -- A simple man -- Meet the family -- The divided realm -- The world at play -- The lion and the lamb -- The staple of life -- The king of spring -- Come to town -- The zealot king -- The king of suspicions -- A conclusion.

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Subject:

Great Britain > History > To 1485.
Great Britain > History > Henry VII, 1485-1509.