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The House of Godwine

The History of a Dynasty

By: Emma Mason,Robert Brink Shoemaker

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The House of Godwine

The History of a Dynasty

By: Emma Mason,Robert Brink Shoemaker

Harold Godwineson was king of England from January 1066 until his death at Hastings in October of that year. For much of the reign of Edward the Confessor, who was married to Harold’s sister Eadgyth, the Godwine family, led by Earl Godwine, had dominated English politics. In The Rise and Fall of the House of Godwine, Emma Mason tells the turbulent story of a remarkable family which, until Harold’s unexpected defeat, looked far more likely than the dukes of Normandy to provide the long-term rulers of England. But for the Norman Conquest, an Anglo-Saxon England ruled by the Godwine dynasty would have developed very differently from that dominated by the Normans.

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A&C Black

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1852853891

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9781852853891

Medieval Saints' Lives

The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography

By: Emma Campbell

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Medieval Saints' Lives

The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography

By: Emma Campbell

Contending that the study of hagiography is significant both for a consideration of medieval literature and for current theoretical debates in medieval studies, this book considers a range of Old French and Anglo-Norman texts, using modern theories of kinship and community to show how saints' lives construe social and sexual relations. Focusing on the depiction of the gift, kinship and community, the book maintains that social and sexual systems play a key role in vernacular hagiography. Such systems, along with the desires they produce and control, are, it is argued, central to hagiography's religious functions, particularly its role as a vehicle of community formation. In attempting to think beyond the limits of human relationships, saints' lives nonetheless create an environment in which queer desires and modes of connection become possible, suggesting that, in this case at least, the orthodox nurtures the queer. This book thus suggests not only that medieval hagiography is worthy of greater attention but also that this corpus might provide an important resource for theorizing community in its medieval contexts and for thinking it in the present. EMMA CAMPBELL is Associate Professor of French at the University of Warwick.

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294

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843841800

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9781843841807

They Got It Wrong: History

All the Facts that Turned Out to be Myths

By: Emma Marriott

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They Got It Wrong: History

All the Facts that Turned Out to be Myths

By: Emma Marriott

They Got It Wrong: History exposes historical fallacies around the globe from the Roman Empire to World War II. There are countless twisted, sanitized tales that have become entrenched in popular belief but are really now more than warped reflections of the truth—or flat out lies. Author Emma Marriot shines a light on these murky corners of history to separate out the facts from shadowy fictions and illuminate how and why these falsehoods got passed around as truths.

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166

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Penguin

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1621450228

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9781621450221

Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135

By: Emma Cownie

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Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135

By: Emma Cownie

Although the Norman Conquest of 1066 swept away most of the secular and ecclesiastical leaders of pre-Conquest England, it held some positive aspects for English society, such as its effects on Anglo-Saxon monastic foundations, which this study explores. The first part deals in depth with five individual case studies (Abingdon, Gloucester, Bury St Edmunds, St Albans and St Augustine's, Canterbury) as well as Fenland and other houses, showing how despite mixed fortunes the major houses survived to become the richest in England. The second part places the experiences of the houses in the context of structural changes in religious patronage as well as within the social and political nexus of the Anglo-Norman realm. Dr Cownie analyses the pattern of gifts to religious houses on both sides of the Channel, looking at the reasons why they were made.EMMA COWNIEgained her Ph.D. from the University of Wales at Cardiff; she currently holds a research fellowship at King's College, London.

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284

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0861932323

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9780861932320

Modern Conspiracy

The Importance of Being Paranoid

By: Emma A. Jane,Chris Fleming

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Modern Conspiracy

The Importance of Being Paranoid

By: Emma A. Jane,Chris Fleming

While conspiracy theory is often characterized in terms of the collapse of objectivity and Enlightenment reason, Modern Conspiracy traces the important role of conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific revolution, social contract theory, political sovereignty, religious paranoia and mass communication media. Rather than seeing the imminent death of Enlightenment reason and a regression to a new Dark Age in conspiratorial thinking, Modern Conspiracy suggests that many characteristic features of conspiracies tap very deeply into the history of the Enlightenment: its vociferous critique of established authorities and a conception of political sovereignty fuelled by fear of counter-plots, for example. Perhaps, ultimately, conspiracy theory affords us a renewed opportunity to reflect on our very relationship to the truth itself.

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185

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1623560918

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9781623560911

Foolish Hearts

By: Emma Mills

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Foolish Hearts

By: Emma Mills

When Claudia accidentally eavesdrops on the epic breakup of Paige and Iris, the it-couple at her school, she finds herself in hot water with prickly, difficult Iris. Thrown together against their will in the class production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with the goofiest, cutest boy Claudia has ever known, Iris and Claudia are in for an eye-opening senior year. Smart, funny, and thoroughly, wonderfully flawed, Claudia navigates a world of intense friendships and tentative romance in Emma Mills's Follish Hearts, a young adult novel about expanding your horizons, allowing yourself to be vulnerable, and accepting—and loving—people for who they really are.

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321

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Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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1627799389

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9781627799386

Blood Sport

Hunting in Britain Since 1066

By: Emma Griffin

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Blood Sport

Hunting in Britain Since 1066

By: Emma Griffin

Nearly a decade of divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with the passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. But the battle over the future of hunting is not yet resolved, and polarizing right-or-wrong debates continue undiminished. This book recounts the history of hunting in Britain and offers a fresh perspective on conflicts.

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308

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Yale University Press

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0300116284

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9780300116281

Book's by Emma Eustace

The House of Godwine

The House of Godwine

Medieval Saints' Lives

Medieval Saints' Lives

They Got It Wrong: History

They Got It Wrong: History

Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135

Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135

Modern Conspiracy

Modern Conspiracy

Foolish Hearts

Foolish Hearts

Blood Sport

Blood Sport

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