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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: From the reign of Alfred the Great — the first king of Wessex to call himself 'king of England' — in the 9th century, to the shock of Norman invasion in the 11th, and from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the comfortable ceremonial of modern-day constitutional monarchy, the story of England's kings and queens is to a large degree that of England herself. Kings and Queens of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Tells the date of the ancient Roman law that made it legal to break wind at banquets; the name of the defunct medieval pope whose putrefying corpse was subjected to the humiliation of a trial before a court of law; and the identity of the priapic monarch who sired more bastards than any other king of England.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: From the reign of Alfred the Great — the first king of Wessex to call himself 'king of England' — in the 9th century, to the shock of Norman invasion in the 11th, and from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the comfortable ceremonial of modern-day constitutional monarchy, the story of England's kings and queens is to a large degree that of England herself. Kings and Queens of…