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The Medieval Soldier in the Wars of the Roses

Men Who Fought the Wars of the Roses

By: Andrew Boardman

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The Medieval Soldier in the Wars of the Roses

Men Who Fought the Wars of the Roses

By: Andrew Boardman

An essential part of the library for anyone interested in the great political and military upheavals in the 15th century.' – Graeme Rimer, Retired Former Academic Director of the Royal Armouries 'A creditable effort to examine a neglected aspect of medieval warfare.' – Jim Bradbury, Cambridge University Press 'Everything you need to know about being a soldier in the Wars of the Roses.' – The Mail Bookshop What was it like to fight in a Wars of the Roses battle? What kind of men fought at St Albans, Northampton, Wakefield, Towton, Tewkesbury and Bosworth? How was the medieval soldier recruited, paid, equipped, fed and billeted? And how was a battle contested once both sides resorted to all-out conflict? First published in 1998, this classic study of the medieval soldier in the Wars of the Roses examines these and other questions using various documentary sources and recent evidence. Eyewitness accounts, contemporary chronicles, personal letters, civic records, archaeology and surviving military equipment are used to paint a fascinating picture of the medieval soldier. Evidence gleaned from the mass war grave found close to the battlefield of Towton in North Yorkshire sheds new light on those that lived and died in the civil wars. But what do we know about the psychology of those involved? And how did soldiers feel about killing their fellow Englishmen? Andrew Boardman explores the grim reality of medieval soldiering on land and sea during this crucial period of aristocratic violence and dynastic upheaval. He makes us question the current historical record, such as it is, and our perceptions of chivalry and warfare in Lancastrian and Yorkist England. The text is supported by many contemporary illustrations, diagrams and maps, making this updated work an indispensable guide to medieval soldiering in the late fifteenth century.

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The History Press

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1803991429

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Towton 1461

The Anatomy of a Battle

By: Andrew Boardman

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Towton 1461

The Anatomy of a Battle

By: Andrew Boardman

Palm Sunday 1461 was the date of a ruthless and bitterly contested battle, fought by two massive medieval armies on an exposed Yorkshire plateau for the prize of the crown of England. This singular engagement of the Wars of the Roses has acquired the auspicious title of the longest, biggest and bloodiest battle ever fought on British soil. But what drove the contending armies of York and Lancaster to fight at Towton and what is the truth behind the legends about this terrible encounter, where contemporaries record that the rivers ran red with blood? Andrew Boardman answers these questions and many more in the new updated edition of his classic account of Towton which provides a fascinating insight into the reality of the battlefield. The Battle of Towton is illustrated throughout with contemporary illustrations, modern photographs and specially drawn maps.

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The History Press

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075099987X

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Cultivating Picturacy

Visual Art and Verbal Interventions

By: James A. W. Heffernan

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Cultivating Picturacy

Visual Art and Verbal Interventions

By: James A. W. Heffernan

While words typically frame and regulate our experience of art, the study explains how pictures can contest the authority of the words we use to interpret art.

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Baylor University Press

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1932792414

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Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature

By: James A. W. Heffernan

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Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature

By: James A. W. Heffernan

In works of Western literature ranging from Homer’s Odyssey to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the giving and taking of hospitality is sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ’s Last Supper, Macbeth’s murder of his royal guest, and Camus’s short story on French colonialism in Arab Algeria. By means of such examples and many more, this book considers what literary hosts, hostesses, and guests do to as well as for each other. In doing so, it shows how often treachery rends the fabric of trust that hospitality weaves.

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Yale University Press

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0300195583

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Regional Geology and Tectonics: Phanerozoic Passive Margins, Cratonic Basins and Global Tectonic Maps

By: A.W. Bally

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Regional Geology and Tectonics: Phanerozoic Passive Margins, Cratonic Basins and Global Tectonic Maps

By: A.W. Bally

Expert petroleum geologists David Roberts and Albert Bally bring you Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis, volume one in a three-volume series covering Phanerozoic regional geology and tectonics. It has been written to provide you with a detailed overview of geologic rift systems, passive margins, and cratonic basins, it features the basic principles necessary to grasping the conceptual approaches to hydrocarbon exploration in a broad range of geological settings globally. A "how-to" regional geology primer that provides a detailed overview of tectonics, rift systems.

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Elsevier

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0444563571

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Crime and Poverty in 19th-Century England

The Economy of Makeshifts

By: A.W. Ager

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Crime and Poverty in 19th-Century England

The Economy of Makeshifts

By: A.W. Ager

It has long been suggested that poverty was responsible for a criminal underclass emerging in Britain during the nineteenth century. Until quite recently, historians did little to challenge this perception. Using innovative quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques, this book looks in detail at some of the causal factors that motivated the poorer classes to commit crime, or act in ways that transgressed acceptable standards of behaviour. It demonstrates how the strategies that these individuals employed varied between urban and rural environments, and shows how the poor railed against legislative reforms that threatened the solvency of their households. In the process, this book provides the first solid appreciation of the complex relationship between crime and poverty in two distinct socio-economic regions between 1830 and 1885.

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A&C Black

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1441160965

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Talking Politics

A Wordbook

By: A. W. Sparkes

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Talking Politics

A Wordbook

By: A. W. Sparkes

Talking Politics is a philosophical examination of some of the basic concepts of political discourse. Its primary focus is on the ordinary; on what is said by politicians, in newspapers and by people in pubs, rather than on the works of political theorists. This is a work of, but not on political theory. Talking Politics is: * Invaluable as a source of reference for students, and contains a detailed index * Arranged thematically, around topics such as `Nation'. Each entry has copious cross-references and suggestions for further reading A. W. Sparkes is uniquely qualified to write such a book, combining some thirty years' teaching as a philosopher with wide experience of, and a life-long fascination with, politics. His attitude is that of a critical, but uncynical, observer.

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Routledge

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1134840608

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Lily Pond

Legacy of the Scrolls

By: Howard A.W. Carson

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Lily Pond

Legacy of the Scrolls

By: Howard A.W. Carson

After forging an alliance through the efforts of the frogs, the five domains of Lily Pond vow to meet the common threat. A threat that had been long forgotten through the passage of time. With the aid of ancient scrolls that had been discovered in the city of Granstone, the true nature of the threat is finally revealed; their total destruction. It is with this knowledge that the frogs, Croaker, Webber and Gribit, along with newfound friends from the domains and their leaders find themselves battling to save the realm of Lily Pond from the goblin king, Lord DeMonas, his armies of imps and his minions.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662476329

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The Roth Overlook

By: Peter A.W. Wyatt

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The Roth Overlook

By: Peter A.W. Wyatt

Bastian Roth grows up in a house divided. While his mother is a sympathetic caregiver, she is overshadowed by misery, completely under the control of her husband. Bastian’s father also wraps his hands around his son’s life in an effort to constrain and keep him from experiencing freedom. He flounders between trying to satisfy his father while developing indifference toward a young girl who lingers in the background of Bastian’s awareness. Bastian’s work attempts to understand love from an academic perspective. Although love, in theory, is to be felt, how does it fit within the grand scheme of academia? Thousands of words have been written about love. The idea of love has been dissected, studied, and taken apart—but what if love is supposed to be treated not with intellect but with innocence and simplicity? Bastian wars with these thoughts, obsessed with understanding this ethereal emotion. Romance is indeed within his reach, although he remains shaped by his upbringing and his study. He dives deep, experiencing meaningful kisses and touches—possibly the very love of his life. However, the obstacle to Bastian’s happiness becomes a mix between want and love, mere satisfaction over adoration. He now must decide between love itself and the understanding of love, which lessens its power and could leave Bastian empty and alone.

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Archway Publishing

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1480872660

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Dream No Little Dreams

A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961

By: A.W. Johnson

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Dream No Little Dreams

A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961

By: A.W. Johnson

In 1944, the people of Saskatchewan elected the first socialist government in North America. Dream No Little Dreams is the biography of that government, led by the great Tommy Douglas of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF, later the New Democratic Party). It is a history of the life of the CCF and a case study in the art and practice of governing; partly a study in the policy decisions of the government, and partly an insider's view. A.W. Johnson – a senior public servant in Saskatchewan during most of the Douglas years – begins by introducing the government's central mission – the transformation of the role of the state – and describes how it achieved this goal over some seventeen years. Johnson analyses the roots of the CCF in Saskatchewan history and prairie politics, and its philosophy as it prepared to govern. He describes the policies and programs introduced by the Douglas government, the changes to the machinery of government and the processes of governing, and the creation of a professional public service. Medicare is viewed by many as the greatest achievement of the Douglas government. Dream No Little Dreams offers rich insight into the initial planning stages of Medicare and details the protracted struggle with the medical profession that followed as Douglas fought to implement it. Johnson also addresses the question of how socialists were going to pay for all their ambitions, and situates the answer in the context of developments in national policy and in federal-provincial fiscal arrangements from the war years through to the 1960s.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442658568

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Mental Conflict

By: A. W. Price

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Mental Conflict

By: A. W. Price

As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. What image are we to form of ourselves that might best enable us to accept the reality of discord, or achieve the ideal of harmony? Greek philosophers offer us a variety of pictures and structures intended to capture the actual and the possible either within a reason that fails to be resolute, or within a split soul that houses a play of forces. Reflection upon them alerts us to the elusiveness at once of mental reality, and of the understanding by which we hope to capture and transform it. Studying in turn the treatments of Mental Conflict in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, A.W. Price demonstrates how the arguments of the Greeks are still relevant to philosophical discussion today.

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Routledge

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1134820445

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Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle

By: A. W. Price

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Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle

By: A. W. Price

This book fully explores for the first time an idea common to Plato and Aristotle, which unites their treatments - otherwise very different - of love and friendship. The idea is that although persons are separate, their lives need not be. One person's life may overflow into another's, and as such, helping another person is a way of serving oneself. The author shows how their view of love and friendship, within not only personal relationships, but also the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism. - ;Friendship and desire in the Lysis; Love in the Symposium; Love in the Phaedrus; Perfect friendship in Aristotle; Aristotle on the varieties of friendship; The household; The City; Epilogue; Appendices; Homogeneity and beauty in the Symposium; Psychoanalysis looks at the Phaedrus ; Plato's sexual morality; Aristotle on erotic love; List of modern works cited. -

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Clarendon Press

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0191586617

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The Resources, Soil, and Climate of Texas. Report of Commissioner of Insurance, Statistics, and History

By: A. W. Spaight

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The Resources, Soil, and Climate of Texas. Report of Commissioner of Insurance, Statistics, and History

By: A. W. Spaight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385484170

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Emblematic Monsters

Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe

By: A.W. Bates

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Emblematic Monsters

Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe

By: A.W. Bates

In early modern Europe, monstrous births were significant events that were seen alive by many people, and dissected, embalmed and collected after death. Emblematic Monsters is a social history of monstrous births as seen through popular print, scholarly books and the proceedings of learned societies. Representations of monsters are considered in the context of their roles as wonders and emblems, and studies of the anatomy of monsters are discussed along with contemporary theories of their origin. By approaching accounts of monstrous births not only as a literary form but also as descriptions of real-life cases, similarities between the pre-scientific recording of wonders and the scientific case report can be explored. Most impressively, A.W. Bates draws upon his own experience of diagnosis of birth defects to summarise more than two hundred original descriptions of monstrous births and compare them with modern diagnostic categories. Emblematic Monsters is an up-to-date approach to a classical yet under-explored subject: gruesome, compelling and monstrous.

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BRILL

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9004332995

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History of Middle Tennessee

By: A.W. Putnam

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History of Middle Tennessee

By: A.W. Putnam

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382316994

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One False Move

By: A.W. Whaley

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One False Move

By: A.W. Whaley

One False Move is the story of Anthony William Lee and how his life has taken a drastic change during the same week as the United States Career Aptitude test. He joins a rebel group and goes undercover in a dystopian United States; but is that the way things will stay? The ultimate ethical dilemma? become a double agent? kill? The lines of the constitution are blurred, the document is going up in flames; what will he choose?

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Lulu.com

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1300901705

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9781300901709

Essays on Four Plays of Euripides

By: A. W. Verrall

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Essays on Four Plays of Euripides

By: A. W. Verrall

Originally published in 1905, this book contains four lengthy essays by A. W. Verrall on four plays by Euripides.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107683122

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9781107683129

THE BATTLE OF JETTENA JUNCTION

RIDE TO GLORY OR RIDE TO HELL

By: A.W. Bennett,Ben Lewis

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THE BATTLE OF JETTENA JUNCTION

RIDE TO GLORY OR RIDE TO HELL

By: A.W. Bennett,Ben Lewis

The Battle of Jettena Junction is a remarkable work. This intriguing combination of fiction work and history textbook subverts and reverses the expectations of historical fiction, using plot as the backdrop of history rather than history as the backdrop for the plot - a history book with a dash of fiction rather than a fiction book with a dash of history. ***** The Confederate States of America had suffered recent devastating defeats at the hands of the Union in recent months. Their capital, Richmond was now a smoldering ruin. Though their spirits were still high, the Confederacy was on the verge of collapse. One more devastating battle, one more dramatic defeat would see the end of the newly formed nation before the eyes of the world. So when the opportunity arose to conclude the most devastating war in America's history, to end in their favor, what better way to end it but by capturing the Federal's leader, President Abraham Lincoln, a she traveled from Washington D.C., to Gettysburg to honor the fallen. The question was? Where was the best location to conduct their hit and run attack? Why, a small siding in Pennsylvania, named Jettena Junction. But what was to be a simple in and out raid turned into a total rout the Confederacy. Deceit, disobeyed orders and commands, betrayal, glory hunting, poor intelligence All played their part as the cream of their military faced a determined foe.

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1982299193

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