The Spoils Of Time, A Short History Of The World From Earliest Times To The Sixteenth Century

The Spoils of Time: A Short History of the World: From the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century

History

WEDGWOOD, C.V.

World

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Great Rebellion The King's War 1641-1647

King's War, 1641-47

Europe

Collins

A volume of shorter writings by the celebrated historian Veronica Wedgwood. She is one of only three women to have been made a member of the Order of Merit, and her historical writing has always aimed to be stimulating and accessible to the general reader.

History and hope: The collected essays of C.V. Wedgwood

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Fontana

It is the measure of Richelieu's greatness that it should be so difficult to imagine the growth of the French monarchy, or the development of Europe in the seventeenth century, without him. The Cardinal was a personality so dominating and so impressive that in his lifetime almost every event in Europe, however remote, would be ascribed to his secret interference. He was credited wrongly by the English with having provoked the Scots Wars of 1638 and 1640, and rightly by the ?Spaniards with organising the Portugese and Catalan revolts of the same period. His spies and agents covered Europe no less than his police system covered France. In the imagination of his contemporaries he was the cunning spider seated all-powerful in the midst of an enormous web of intreague." - From Chapter 1 During the eighteen years that Cardinal Richeliu served as first minister to King Louis XIII, the power or the monarchy in France was entrenchedso firmly that it survived sunshaken through the long and perilous minority of Louis XIV old when his father died. During those eighteen years of his influence, France became the foremost power in Europe and the fountainhead of European art. His administration produced profound changes that are still being felt today in France and all of Europe: "the account," says the author, "is not yet closed."

Richelieu and the French Monarchy

Macmillan Pub. Co.

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01 Trial Of Charles I

Penguin Uk

Penguin

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The King's Peace, 1637-41 (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (September 27, 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 0141390743 ISBN-13: 978-0141390741 Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces

The Trial of Charles I (Penguin Classic History)

Seventeenth-century English literature, (Oxford paperbacks university series)

Oxford U.P.

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The Spoils of Time: A Short History of the World: From the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century

King's War, 1641-47

History and hope: The collected essays of C.V. Wedgwood

King's War, 1641-47

Richelieu and the French Monarchy

01 Trial Of Charles I

Richelieu and the French Monarchy

The King's Peace, 1637-41 (Penguin Classics)

The Trial of Charles I (Penguin Classic History)

Seventeenth-century English literature, (Oxford paperbacks university series)