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Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana Princess of Wales but the palaces glory days came between 1714 and 1760 during the reigns of George I and II In the eighteenth century this palace was a world of skulduggery intrigue politicking etiquette wigs and beauty spots where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities Lucy Worsleys The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the Kings Staircase of Kensington Palacepaintings you can see at the palace todayThe Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter a maid of honor with a secret marriage a vice chamberlain with many vices a bedchamber woman with a violent husband two aging royal mistresses and many more The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty
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Chronicles the glittering and treacherous history of the Byzantine Empire including art trade religion and the intrigues of the imperial court
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The fourth novel in The Cities series is set amidst the intrigues civil strife and secrets of Waterdeep the most powerful and important city in the Forgotten Realms universe and follows the sinister schemes of a mage and his son who seek to create strange creatures to serve their twisted and perverted ends Reprint
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The fourth novel in The Cities series set against the backgroundof civil strife at the heart of the Forgotten Realms settingThis novel is set in the most important city of the Forgotten Realms settingWaterdeep city of intrigue and secrets Its authors are considered by fans to beamong the most authoritative figures writing in the Forgotten Realmssetting and each has a legion of loyal readers This novel is their firstcollaboration ED GREENWOOD lives in Ontario where he created the Forgotten Realms setting more than 30 years ago and has written hundreds of articles novels stories and game products in the setting His most recent novel is Elminsters DaughterELAINE CUNNINGHAM published her first novel Elfshadow in 1991 Sincethen shes written the Songs amp Swords series the Counselors amp Kings seriesand the Starlight amp Shadows trilogy concluding it with Windwalker She isalso the author of the Star Wars novel Dark Journey
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Unhappy about the marriage arranged for her by her parents eighteenyearold Aimee de Fleurance turns for help to the handsome courtier Thomas Mardouet Seigneur de St Briac in a romance set amid the splendor and intrigue of the court of Francois I
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The Duke of SaintSimon 16751755 was by all accounts including his own a sensitive selfobsessed illtempered man A courtier and phenomenal chronicler of court life under Louis XIV he produced the monumental work Memoirs running to thousands of pages in which the intrigues personalities activities and gossip of life at Versailles are recorded in acerbic detail Drawing heavily on these Memoirs renowned historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie offers a wonderful portrait of life under Louis XIV focusing on the fundamental issues of hierarchy and rank in this tightly controlled universeSaintSimon and the Court of Louis XIV expertly translated by Arthur Goldhammer is a historical essay about court life built with the wide range of tools Ladurie so expertly employs ethnography history literary criticism and historiography Ladurie recreates a world in which man is most definitely born unequal a world circumscribed entirely by purity of bloodline which nonetheless directly preceded the birth of democratic thought and political action Locked into a virtual caste system courtiers formed within their ranks cabals factions and groups bonded by common ideological principles in order to survive the political order of the court Thus SaintSimon and the Court of Louis XIV is not only about SaintSimons place in this constellation but also the constellation itself and how understanding it forces us to a reevaluation of political life in France during the Old RegimeIncluding a biographical sketch of SaintSimon and more than 30 illustrations of court life and its members SaintSimon and the Court of Louis XIV will delight those interested in French history as well as instruct those interested in political history
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An elegant fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the complex intrigues both amorous and political of his legendary courtiers
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Here is the tragic stormy life of Mary Tudor daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon Her story is a chronicle of courage and faith betrayal and treacheryset amidst the splendor pageantry squalor and intrigue of sixteenthcentury EuropeThe history of Mary Tudor is an improbable blend of triumph humiliation heartbreak and devotionand Ms Erickson recounts it all against the turbulent background of European politics war and religious strife of the mid1500s The result is a rare portrait of the times and of a woman elevated to unprecedented power in a world ruled and defined by men
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The renowned South African singer and political activist recounts her lifea life that encompasses the splendor of international acclaim bitter personal tragedy and political intrigue and violence
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In this enthralling new novel Barbara Quick recreates eighteenthcentury Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence A story of longing and intrigue halftold truths and toxic lies Vivaldis Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldiknown as the Red Priest of Veniceis maestro and composer Fourteenyearold Anna Maria abandoned at the Ospedale della Pietà as an infant is determined to find out who she is and where she came from Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestros favor to the largerthanlife world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall In this world where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival nothing is as it appears to be A virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring Vivaldis Virgins is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldis musical legacy interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young womans comingofage in a deliciously evocative time and place
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In this enthralling new novel Barbara Quick recreates eighteenthcentury Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence A story of longing and intrigue halftold truths and toxic lies Vivaldis Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldiknown as the Red Priest of Veniceis maestro and composer Fourteenyearold Anna Maria abandoned at the Ospedale della Pietà as an infant is determined to find out who she is and where she came from Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestros favor to the largerthanlife world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall In this world where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival nothing is as it appears to be A virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring Vivaldis Virgins is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldis musical legacy interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young womans comingofage in a deliciously evocative time and place
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In this enthralling new novel Barbara Quick recreates eighteenthcentury Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence A story of longing and intrigue halftold truths and toxic lies Vivaldis Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldiknown as the Red Priest of Veniceis maestro and composer Fourteenyearold Anna Maria abandoned at the Ospedale della Pietà as an infant is determined to find out who she is and where she came from Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestros favor to the largerthanlife world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall In this world where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival nothing is as it appears to be A virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring Vivaldis Virgins is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldis musical legacy interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young womans comingofage in a deliciously evocative time and place
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