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Jane Seymour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Jane Seymour

The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most - a son and heir.

Anne Boleyn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn was the most controversial and scandalous woman ever to sit on the throne of England. From her early days at the imposing Hever Castle in Kent, to the glittering courts of Paris and London, Anne caused a stir wherever she went.

The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 16

The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis

The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis is a complete package of theory and aural skills resources that covers every topic commonly taught in the undergraduate sequence. The package can be mixed and matched for every classroom, and with Norton’s new Know It? Show It! online pedagogy, students can watch video tutorials as they read the text, access formative online quizzes, and tackle workbook assignments in print or online. In its third edition, The Musician’s Guide retains the same student-friendly prose and emphasis on real music that has made it popular with professors and students alike.

The Boleyn Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

The Boleyn Women

The family of Anne Boleyn, the infamous wife of Henry VIII, appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth century and rose to prominence at the beginning of a century that would end with a Boleyn woman, Elizabeth I, on the throne.

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
  • Language: en

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women

The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time when death during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education you could hope to receive was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before. Historian Elizabeth Norton explores the life cycle of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examp...

She Wolves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

She Wolves

Some of the queens featured in She Wolves are well known and have been the subject of biography – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France and Anne Boleyn, for example – others have not been written about outside academic journals. The appeal of these notorious queens, apart from their shared taste for witchcraft, murder, adultery and incest, is that because they were notorious they attracted a great deal of attention during their lifetimes. She-Wolves reveals much about the role of the medieval queen and the evolution of the role that led, ultimately, to the reign of Elizabeth I and a new concept of queenship.

Bessie Blount
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 656

Bessie Blount

Beautiful, young, exuberant, the amazing life of Henry VIII's mistress and mother to his first son who came tantalizingly close to succeeding him as King Henry IX.

Elfrida
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Elfrida

The first-ever biography of the most powerful woman of tenth-century England.

Anne Boleyn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 690

Anne Boleyn

The complete letters, dispatches and chronicles that tell the real story of Anne Boleyn.

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor
  • Language: en

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor

A power-hungry courtier and an impressionable young princess: The Tudor court had never been more perilous for the young Elizabeth, where rumors had the power to determine her fate. England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour, the brother of Henry VIII's third wife, the late Jane Seymour, mother to the now-ailing boy King. Ambitious, charming and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that ends in Catherine sending her away. When Catherine dies in autumn 1548 and Seymour is arrested for treason soon after, the scandal explodes into the open. Alone and in ...