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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Fox, Julia.

Summary: Historian Fox offers this first dual biography of the daughters of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabella whose entwined royal relationships helped define the 15th- and 16th-century European political landscape.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TUDOR, HOUSE OF FOX

Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HIS

Russell, Gareth

Summary: "Written with narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the young, doomed woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political tension. On the morning of July 28, 1540, as King Henry VIII's former confidant Thomas Cromwell was being led to his execution, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Borman, Tracy

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Summary: "Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BOR

Weir, Alison

Summary: A novel of the devout young woman who became the unwilling object of King Henry VIII's ardor-and the mother of his only son. In this third book in the epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed historian and bestselling author brings new insight to this dramatic story, showing how pure fear for her life determined Jane Seymour's actions. 25-year-old Jane Seymour wants nothing more than to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEI

Weir, Alison

Summary: "Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 WEI

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Weir, Alison

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Summary: "Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399. The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEI

Byrne, Conor

Summary: Over the years, Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, has been slandered as a `juvenile delinquent', `empty-headed wanton' and `natural-born tart' who engaged in promiscuous liaisons prior to her marriage and committed adultery after her marriage to Henry VIII. This biography challenges these assumptions by drawing on seven years of research, demonstrating that Katherine's reputation is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATHERINE HOWARD, QUEEN BYR

Weir, Alison

Summary: "Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as 'the common mother of all England'; Adeliza of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEI

Nolan, Hayley.

Summary: Anne Boleyn has been sold to us as a dark figure, a scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into divorcing his queen and his church in an unprecedented display of passion. Quite the tragic love story, right? Wrong. In this expose, Hayley Nolan explores for the first time the full, uncensored evidence of Anne Boleyn's life and relationship with Henry VIII, revealing the shocking suppression...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANNE BOLEYN, QUEEN NOL

Weir, Alison

Summary: A biography of the first Tudor queen, who was the only living descendent of Yorkist King Edward IV, and mother of the infamous Henry VIII, sheds new light on the life of this enigmatic woman and mother of the Tudor dynasty.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ELIZABETH, QUEEN WEI

Weir, Alison

Contents: Prologue: "Now take heed what love may do" -- "The most illustrious maid of York" -- "Madame la Dauphine" -- "This act of usurpation" -- "The whole design of this plot" -- "Her only joy and maker" -- "Purposing a conquest" -- "Our bridal torch" -- "In blest wedlock" -- "Offspring of the race of kings" -- "Damnable conspiracies" -- "Bright Elizabeth" -- "Elysabeth ye Quene" -- "Unbounded love"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH, QUEEN WEI

Weir, Alison

Summary: Surprised to discover that there was no modern biography of the first Tudor queen and mother of the infamous Henry VIII, Alison Weir has written the first in-depth, engaging book about this woman who was born a York but died a Tudor. Daughter of the last Yorkish king, sister to the murdered princes in the tower, and wife of the first Tudor king, Elizabeth of York's life formed a bridge between...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub Inc 2013

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 ELIZABETH, QUEEN WEI

Summary: An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyn family. This story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession is told from the unique perspective of the Boleyn family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BOL

Quilligan, Maureen

Summary: "A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century. Library Journal "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilization of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.6 QUI

Skidmore, Chris

Summary: Recounts the rise of the Tudors from obscure Welsh gentry to powerful English monarchs and relates the events of the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, which resulted in the death of Richard III and the victory of Henry Tudor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TUDOR FAMILY SKI

Weir, Alison.

Summary: The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England. Acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir draws on myriad sources from the Tudor era to examine, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn's final days.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANNE BOLEYN WEI

Bordo, Susan

Summary: Reconstructs the life of the second wife of Henry VIII, drawing on scholarly studies and critical analysis to define an English queen who has been alternately viewed as a whore, martyr, feminist icon, and cautionary tale.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANNE BOLEYN, QUEEN BOR

Guy, John

Summary: Based on new research, this history of Henry VIII's courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn provides dispels previously held myths about Boleyn's role in the marriage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Chang, Leah L.

Summary: "Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.009 CHA

Borman, Tracy.

Summary: Chronicles the achievements of Matilda of Flanders, the ruthless wife of William the Conqueror, who eschewed the traditional views of women in medieval society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATILDA, QUEEN BOR

Norwich, John Julius

Summary: "John Julius Norwich--who the Wall Street Journal called "the very model of a popular historian"--has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early sixteenth century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers, all born within a ten-year period: Francis I of France, the personification of the Renaissance, who became a highly influential patron of the arts and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 NOR

Weir, Alison

Summary: A profile of the niece of Henry VIII reveals her contributions to sixteenth century politics, covering her two affairs, arrangement of her son's marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, and role in securing the English throne for her grandson, Scotland's James VI.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LENNOX, MARGARET DOUGLAS WEI

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