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London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1988 This book club edition by arrangement with Phoebe Phillips Editions and George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. Original dustjacket - not price clipped - Dj edges and corners slightly worn. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Preface by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Illustrated throughout - b/w and colour; list of the kings & queens of the period; 13 pages of maps. This "tells the story of the last hundred years of the dynasty founded by Henry II in 1154 - it begins in 1377 with the accession to the throne of Richard II and ends in 1485 with the death on Bosworth Field of the enigmatic Richard III. More than 100 short essays, lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white, provide background information on the people and politics, manners, mores and customs of a formative epoch in English and European history.

London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1986 This book club edition published by arrangement with Thames and Hudson Ltd. With 376 illustrations - 95 in colour; 281 photographs, engravings, drawings and maps. Original dustjacket not price clipped - edges of d/j slightly worn. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Contributions by 8 of the leading authorities of the period - A.R. Burn (The Troubled Birth of a New World: The struggle of the city states); H.C. Baldry (The Voice of Greece: The first great literature and its living context); W.K. Guthrie (The Revolution in the Mind: Old gods and the new reason); John Boardman (The Sublime Achievement: The art and architecture of Ancient Greece); F.R. Cowell (The Ancient Life: The Greece and Rome of Everyday); R.A.G. Carson (A City of the Scattered Earth: From Tiber's seven hills to world dominion); Michael Grant (Poetry, Prose and Rhetoric: The riches of the Roman language); Sir Mortimer Wheeler (The Vision Turns Inward: The art and… Read More

London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1989 This book club edition published by arrangement with Alan Sutton Publishing Limited. Slight age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Corners and edges of dj slightly bumped and rubbed. Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Illustrated throughout - 350 engravings, paintings, drawings and photographs - b/w and some colour plates. With Index. "This is the first major work on the period to challenge the established views of the Reformation, and to look at it from a broader, international viewpoint. A collection of studies, written by eminent international historians and theologians and edited by the French academic Pierre Chaunu, presents a fascinating panorama of the world of the Reformation: pre-Reformation Europe; politics and crisis in the Holy Roman Empire; Luther, Calvin and the Protestant Reformers; diffusion, failure, Catholic Counter-Reformation and the survival of the Reforming convictions; England's 'via… Read More