A History of the Franks Penguin Classics

This colorful narrative of French history in the sixth century is a dramatic and detailed portrait of a period of political and religious turmoil. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.

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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise Penguin Classics

With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

One of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairsthrough the letters between Abelard and Heloise, from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret marriage, we follow the path of their 12th-century romance, to their eventual separation.

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The Lais of Marie de France Penguin Classics

Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, potions and beasts. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

. Penguin Books. De france takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous and suspicious husband. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.

Marie de France fl. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Penguin Books. Late twelfth century is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre.

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Ecclesiastical History of the English People Penguin Classics

It begins with julius caesar's invasion in the first century BC and goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop government and convert the people to Christianity during these crucial formative years. With god's help, I, Bede. H. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Penguin Books. Have assembled these facts about the history of the Church in Britain. A vivid account of an emerging church and nation. Farmer. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This edition includes bede's letter to egbert, denouncing false monasteries; and The Death of Bede, monk and later Abbot of Jarrow, an admirable eye-witness account by Cuthbert, both translated by D.

From the traditions of our forebears, and from my own personal knowledge'Written in AD 731, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is the first account of Anglo-Saxon England ever written, and remains our single most valuable source for this period. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.

Bede is known as the'Father of the English Church History'.


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Two Lives of Charlemagne Penguin Classics

The biographies brought together here provide a rich and varied portrait of the king from two perspectives: that of Einhard, and of Notker, a close friend and adviser, a monastic scholar and musician writing fifty years after Charlemagne's death. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.

A vivid account of an emerging church and nation. Penguin Books. Penguin Books. Bede is known as the'Father of the English Church History'. Penguin Books. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman EmpireCharlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers.

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Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version Meridian

The 1, 120 pages of text contain, an outline of new testament history as well as useful cross-references, a history of several modern translations, in addition to the complete Old and New Testaments, a summary of the books of the Bible, and an extensive series of notes regarding translation and original sources.

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A vivid account of an emerging church and nation. This edition is a superb synthesis of modern language and the lyric force of the King James Version. The holy bible Revised Standard Edition.


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Confessions Penguin Classics

Penguin Books. A remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography, the Confessions also address fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of Christianity today. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.

Penguin Books. The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. A vivid account of an emerging church and nation. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Bede is known as the'Father of the English Church History'. Penguin Books. The holy bible Revised Standard Edition. His confessions, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, written when he was in his forties, slowly and painfully, recount how, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers.

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The Aeneid of Virgil Bantam Classics

The holy bible Revised Standard Edition. The aeneid is a book for all the time and all people. Great product! Penguin Books. Aeneas flees the ashes of troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's aeneid is as eternal as rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2, 000 years.

Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. Bede is known as the'Father of the English Church History'. Penguin Books. Penguin Books. A vivid account of an emerging church and nation.


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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 The Penguin History of Europe

The breath  of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere. The daily telegraph UK"A superlative work of historical scholarship. Literary review uka unique and enlightening look at Europe's so-called Dark Ages; the second volume in the Penguin History of Europe Defying the conventional Dark Ages view of European history between A.

D. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham agues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Bede is known as the'Father of the English Church History'. Penguin Books. From ireland to constantinople, franks, arabs, the narrative constructs a vivid portrait of the vast and varied world of Goths, the Baltic to the Mediterranean, Saxons, Vandals, and Vikings.

The holy bible Revised Standard Edition. Penguin Books. Groundbreaking and full of fascinating revelations, The Inheritance of Rome offers a fresh understanding of the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created. Great product! Penguin Books.


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The Cambridge Illustrated History of France Cambridge Illustrated Histories

Penguin Books. Used book in Good Condition. Colin jones is also the author of the Longman Companion to the French Revolution and The Cultural Atlas of France. In a tour de force, superbly and intelligently illustrated account of the political, class, Colin Jones gives a gripping, social and cultural history of France, placing an innovatory emphasis on the impact of regionalism, gender and race in French heritage.

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Ranging from prehistoric menhirs to the pompidou centre, from marie antoinette to Marie Claire, from Louis XIV's Versailles to twentieth-century highrises, The Cambridge Illustrated History of France is host to lively and penetrating new insights that take us through the shaping of France from the earliest times to the brink of a new millennium.

A vivid account of an emerging church and nation. Penguin Books. Combining superb illustration with outstanding scholarship, the diversity of the French heritage--scientific and artistic, national and regional--is explored with an engrossing and accessible style. Penguin Books.


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The Later Roman Empire A.D. 354-378

The later roman empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, Valentinian I, Jovian, and Valens, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, and providing eyewitness accounts of significant military events including the Battle of Strasbourg and the Goth's Revolt. Penguin Classics.

The holy bible Revised Standard Edition. Penguin Books. Penguin Books. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Penguin Books. In this magisterial depiction of the closing decades of the Roman Empire, we can see the seeds of events that were to lead to the fall of the city, just twenty years after Marcellinus' death.

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