Great Tales from English History: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More PDF
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14801_01_i-xviii,1-254_r2dy.qxd 2/11/04 9:38 AM Page i GREAT TALES FROM E N G L I S H H I S T O R Y 14801_01_i-xviii,1-254_r2dy.qxd 2/11/04 9:38 AM Page ii Also by Robert Lacey ROBERT, EARL OF ESSEX THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HENRY VIII THE QUEENS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC SIR WALTER RALEGH MAJESTY: ELIZABETH II AND THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR THE KINGDOM PRINCESS ARISTOCRATS FORD:THE MEN AND THE MACHINE GOD BLESS HER! QUEEN MOTHER LITTLE MAN GRACE SOTHEBY’S: BIDDING FOR CLASS THE YEAR THE QUEEN MOTHER’S CENTURY ROYAL: HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II 14801_01_i-xviii,1-254_r2dy.qxd 2/11/04 9:38 AM Page iii GREAT TALES FROM E N G L I S H H I S T O R Y The Truth about King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart and More ROBERT LACEY LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY New York (cid:1) Boston Copyright © 2003 by Robert Lacey All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including informa- tion storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief pas- sages in a review. Little, Brown and Company Time Warner Book Group 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 Visit our Web site at www.twbookmark.com. First published in Great Britain by Little, Brown, 2003 The author gratefully acknowledges permission to quote from Bede: Ecclesiastical History of the English People(Penguin Classics, 1995; revised edition, 1968), translation copyright © Leo Sherley-Price, 1955, 1968; The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978), translator Marjorie Chibnall, © Oxford University Press, 1978; The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( J. M. Dent, 1996), translator M. J. Swanton, © J. M. Dent, 1996; Piers the Ploughmanby William Langland (Penguin Books, 1966), translation © J. F. Goodridge, 1959, 1966. Illustrations and maps © 2003 by Fred van Deelen ISBN: 0-7595-1163-2 First eBook Edition: June 2004 14801_01_i-xviii,1-254_r2dy.qxd 2/11/04 9:38 AM Page v FOR SASHA 14801_01_i-xviii,1-254_r2dy.qxd 2/11/04 9:38 AM Page vii CONTENTS Anglo-Saxon and Norman England ix England’s Norman and Angevin, or Plantagenet, Kings x The Angevin Empire of Henry II xi Introduction: Storytelling xiii c. Cheddar Man c. Pytheas and the Painted People The Standard-bearer ofthe th ‒ And Did Those Feet? Jesus Christ and the Legends ofGlastonbury The Emperor Claudius Triumphant Boadicea,Warrior Queen Hadrian’s Wall ‒c. Arthur,Once and Future King c. Pope Gregory’s Angels St Augustine’s Magic King Oswy and the Crown ofThorns c. Caedmon,the First English Poet ⁄‒ The Venerable Bede Alfred and the Cakes ‒ The Lady ofthe Mercians ‒ Ethelred the Unready · vii · 14801_01_i-xviii,1-254_r2dy.qxd 2/11/04 9:38 AM Page viii c. Elmer the Flying Monk ‒ King Canute and the Waves ‒ Edward the Confessor c. The Legend ofLady Godiva The Year ofThree Kings The Death ofBrave King Harold Hereward the Wake and the Norman Yoke The Domesday Book The Mysterious Death ofWilliam Rufus Henry I and the White Ship ‒ Stephen and Matilda Murder in the Cathedral A King Repents The River-bank Take-away - Richard the Lionheart John Lackland and Magna Carta Hobbehod,Prince ofThieves Simon de Montfort and his Talking-place A Prince Who Speaks No Word ofEnglish Piers Gaveston and Edward II A Prince Wins His Spurs The Burghers ofCalais ‒ The Fair Maid ofKent and the Order ofthe Garter ‒ The Great Mortality The Bedside Manner ofa Plague Doctor The Dream ofPiers the Ploughman The ‘Mad Multitude’ Bibliography and Source Notes Exploring the Original Sources Acknowledgements Index · viii · 14801_01_i-xviii,1-254_r2dy.qxd 2/11/04 9:38 AM Page ix Anglo-Saxon and Norman England · ix ·
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