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Blood and Roses: One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses

Blood and Roses: One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses

Helen Castor

HARPER PERENNIAL
2007
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"A gripping family saga. . . . Page-turners are rarely written by scholars of the 15th century, but Castor wears her learning admirably lightly. Blood and Roses is nothing less than a ripping yarn." --The Indepedent (London) The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder. Over the course of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. Yet until now, little has been written about the ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary time.Blood and Roses is a gripping, intimate story of one determined family conducting everyday business against the backdrop of a disintegrating society and savage civil war. Drawing on a rare trove of letters discovered in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs the turbulent affairs of the Pastons through three generations of births, marriages, and deaths as they single-mindedly worked their way up from farmers to landed gentry. It is a remarkable chronicle of devotion, ambition, and survival that brings a remote and hazy era to vibrant new life.
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Helen Castor

HARPER PERENNIAL
2012
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"Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding." --Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall In the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a compelling, eye-opening examination of women and power in England, witnessed through the lives of six women who exercised power against all odds--and one who never got the chance. With the death of Edward VI in 1553, England, for the first time, would have a reigning queen. The question was: Who?Four women stood upon the crest of history: Katherine of Aragon's daughter, Mary; Anne Boleyn's daughter, Elizabeth; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Lady Jane Grey. But over the centuries, other exceptional women had struggled to push the boundaries of their authority and influence--and been vilified as "she-wolves" for their ambitions. Revealed in vivid detail, the stories of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Margaret of Anjou, and the Empress Matilda expose the paradox that England's next female leaders would confront as the Tudor throne lay before them--man ruled woman, but these women sought to rule a nation.
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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Helen Castor

HARPER PERENNIAL
2016
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From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world--as never told before.Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become and told in hindsight, Castor's Joan of Arc: A History takes us back to fifteenth century France and tells the story forwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no one--not Joan herself, nor the people around her--princes, bishops, soldiers, or peasants--knew what would happen next.Adding complexity, depth, and fresh insight into Joan's life, and placing her actions in the context of the larger political and religious conflicts of fifteenth century France, Joan of Arc: A History is history at its finest and a surprising new portrait of this remarkable woman.Joan of Arc: A History features an 8-page color insert.
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Elizabeth I (Penguin Monarchs)

Elizabeth I (Penguin Monarchs)

Helen Castor

Penguin Books Ltd
2019
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'The experience of insecurity, it turned out, would shape one of the most remarkable monarchs in England's history' In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of monarchical power. But this image is as much armour as a reflection of the truth. In this illuminating account of England's iconic queen, Helen Castor reveals her reign as shaped by a profound and enduring insecurity that was a matter of both practical politics and personal psychology.
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The Eagle and the Hart

The Eagle and the Hart

Helen Castor

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
2025
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The author of She-Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration - and back again*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2025**THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024*'A glorious work of history... a gripping and haunting tragedy... There was no book published this year, novels included, that I found richer in character; no plot more taut' - Tom Holland, The Spectator'A dazzling tour de force of epic royal history: a compulsive, unputdownable real-life thriller, a gripping portrait of ruthless power politics, and a study of British tyranny ... written with the delicacy and elegance of one of Britain’s most brilliant historians at the top of her game' - Simon Sebag-Montefiore'If ever a book of history was blessed with contemporary relevance, this one is. The dumbfounding, delusional, narcissistic King Richard; the white-knuckle ride of Henry IV, dogged all the way by notions of illegitimacy. I feel these men could have been ripped from today’s headlines. The book’s great achievement is in the storytelling — the unfolding drama, the secrets of power and ambition so beautifully controlled in the telling. The Eagle and the Hart will be a non-fiction book of the year and will deserve the ovations it is certain to receive. When history is this gripping there’s nothing like it' - Andrew O'HaganRichard of Bordeaux and Henry Bolingbroke were first cousins, born just three months apart. Their lives were from the beginning entwined. When they were still children, Richard was crowned King Richard II with Henry at his side, carrying the sword of state: a ten-year-old lord in the service of his ten-year-old king.Yet, as the animals on their heraldic badges showed, they grew up to be opposites: Richard was the white hart, a thin-skinned narcissist, and Henry the eagle, a chivalric hero, a leader who inspired loyalty where Richard inspired only fear. Henry had all the qualities Richard lacked, all the qualities a sovereign needed, bar one: birth right. Increasingly threatened by his charismatic cousin, Richard became consumed by the need for total power, in a time of constant conflict, rebellions and reprisals. When he banished Henry into exile, the stage was set for a final confrontation, as the hart became the tyrant and the eagle his usurper.Helen Castor tells this story of one of the strangest and most fateful relationships in English history. It is a story about power, and masculinity in crisis, and a nation brought to the brink of catastrophe. At its heart, it is the story of two men whose lives were played out in extraordinary parallel, to devastating effect.
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The King, the Crown, and the Duchy of Lancaster

The King, the Crown, and the Duchy of Lancaster

Helen Castor

Oxford University Press
2000
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In 1399 Henry Bolingbroke, duke of Lancaster, seized the throne of England to become Henry IV. From 1399, therefore, the Lancastrian kings - unlike their royal predecessors - commanded not only the public authority of the crown, but also the private power of the Duchy of Lancaster. Until now, this has been seen simply as an advantage to the Lancastrian crown, and as an uncontroversial part of the evolution of a 'royal affinity' during the later middle ages. However, this study makes clear that profound tensions existed between the role of the king and that of his alter ego, the duke of Lancaster. This book examines the complex relationship between the king, the crown and the Duchy of Lancaster at both a national and a local level, focusing particularly on the north midlands and East Anglia and, in so doing, sheds light on the nature and functioning of the late medieval English monarchy.
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Blood and Roses

Blood and Roses

Helen Castor

Faber Faber
2005
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A gripping biography of the Paston family set against the turbulent background of the Wars of the Roses from bestselling historian Helen Castor, author of She-WolvesThe Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. As they made their way in a disintegrating world, the Paston family in Norfolk family were writing letters - about politics, about business, about shopping, about love and about each other, including the first valentine.Using these letters - the oldest surviving family correspondence in English - Helen Castor traces the extraordinary history of the Paston family across three generations. Blood & Roses tells the dramatic, moving and intensely human story of how one family survived one of the most tempestuous periods in English history.
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She-Wolves

She-Wolves

Helen Castor

Faber Faber
2011
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'Highly readable, exciting and thought-provoking' - Hilary Mantel'A gem of blood-and-thunder storytelling' - Dominic SandbrookIn medieval England, man was the ruler of woman, and the King was the ruler of all. How, then, could royal power lie in female hands?In She-Wolves, celebrated historian, Helen Castor, tells the dramatic and fascinating stories of four exceptional women who, while never reigning queens, held great power: Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou. These were women who paved the way for Jane Grey, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I - the Tudor queens who finally confronted what it meant to be a female monarch.
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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Helen Castor

Faber Faber
2015
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Acclaimed historian and broadcaster Helen Castor tells the story of Joan of Arc as you have never read it before.'Popular history at its best.' Daily TelegraphHelen Castor brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman; a roaring girl fighting the English, and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing fifteenth century France apart.Here is a portrait of a 19-year-old peasant who hears voices from God; a teenager transformed into a warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believed women should not fight. And it is also the story behind the myth we all know, a myth which began to take hold at her trial: that of the Maid of Orleans, the saviour of France, a young woman burned at the stake as a heretic, a woman who five hundred years later would be declared a saint.Joan and her world are brought vividly to life in this refreshing new take on the medieval world. Helen Castor brings us to the heart of the action, to a woman and a country in turmoil, a world where no-one - not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knew what would happen next.
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The Castrato and His Wife

The Castrato and His Wife

Helen Berry

Oxford University Press
2011
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The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own compositions which he performed in London's pleasure gardens. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was a rock star of his day, with a massive female following. He was also a castrato. Women flocked to his concerts and found him irresistible. His singing pupil, Dorothea Maunsell, a teenage girl from a genteel Irish family, eloped with him. There was a huge scandal; her father persecuted them mercilessly. Tenducci's wife joined him at his concerts, achieving a status as a performer she could never have dreamed of as a respectable girl. She also wrote a sensational account of their love affair, an early example of a teenage novel. Embroiled in debt, the Tenduccis fled to Italy, and the marriage collapsed when she fell in love with another man. There followed a highly publicized and unique marriage annulment case in the London courts. Everything hinged on the status of the marriage; whether the husband was capable of consummation, and what exactly had happened to him as a small boy in a remote Italian hill village decades before. Ranging from the salons of princes and the grand opera houses of Europe to the remote hill towns of Tuscany, the unconventional love story of the castrato and his wife affords a fascinating insight into the world of opera and the history of sex and marriage in Georgian Britain, while also exploring questions about the meaning of marriage that continue to resonate in our own time.
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The Castrato and His Wife

The Castrato and His Wife

Helen Berry

Oxford University Press
2012
nidottu
The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own compositions which he performed in London's pleasure gardens. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was a rock star of his day, with a massive female following. He was also a castrato. Women flocked to his concerts and found him irresistible. His singing pupil, Dorothea Maunsell, a teenage girl from a genteel Irish family, eloped with him. There was a huge scandal; her father persecuted them mercilessly. Tenducci's wife joined him at his concerts, achieving a status as a performer she could never have dreamed of as a respectable girl. She also wrote a sensational account of their love affair, an early example of a teenage novel. Embroiled in debt, the Tenduccis fled to Italy, and the marriage collapsed when she fell in love with another man. There followed a highly publicized and unique marriage annulment case in the London courts. Everything hinged on the status of the marriage; whether the husband was capable of consummation, and what exactly had happened to him as a small boy in a remote Italian hill village decades before. Ranging from the salons of princes and the grand opera houses of Europe to the remote hill towns of Tuscany, the unconventional love story of the castrato and his wife affords a fascinating insight into the world of opera and the history of sex and marriage in Georgian Britain, while also exploring questions about the meaning of marriage that continue to resonate in our own time.
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Agronomic behavior of castor bean

Agronomic behavior of castor bean

Diva Lima de Araújo; Lúcia Helena Garófalo Chaves

Our Knowledge Publishing
2021
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The castor bean is a shrubby plant with various colors of stem, leaves and racemes, and may or may not have wax on the stem and petiole. The fruits generally have spines and, in some cases, are inert. The seeds have different shapes, sizes and great variability in color. Castor oil is the most important constituent of the castor seed, and the castor cake is the most important by-product, produced from the extraction of oil from castor oil seeds. It is a plant demanding nutrients, especially nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. The present work aimed to evaluate the behavior of castor oil plant cultivar Nordestina, in relation to the dosages of N, P and K, when cultivated in a protected environment.In the first experiment, five doses of N (40;80;120;160;200 Kg/ha) with fixed doses of P and K were used; for the second five doses of P (30;60;90;120;150 Kg/ha) with fixed doses of N and K were used and in the third five doses of K (30;60;90;120;150 Kg/ha) with fixed doses of N and P were used. P influenced the height of the castor plant. All the other variables analyzed showed greater yield with the higher doses of N.
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Omvårdnad för barn och unga - - på avancerad nivå

Omvårdnad för barn och unga - - på avancerad nivå

Katarina Patriksson; Helena Wigert; Charlotte Angelhoff; Sofia Arwehed; Cecilia Bartholdson; Malin Berghammer; Helena Bergius; Bim Bexell; Ewa Lena Bratt; Anna Lena Brorsson; Åsa Burström; Charlotte Castor; Mats Cederlund; Pernilla Danielsson Liljekvist; Jenny Ericson; Johanna Granhagen Jungner; Mats Granlund; Angelica Grönberg; Helena Hansson; Karina Huus; Margaretha Jenholt Nolbris; Anette Johansson; Katarina Karlsson; Manne Karlsson; Victoria Karlsson; Birgitta Kerstis; Elin Kimland; Ulrika Kreicbergs; Birgit Lidwall

Studentlitteratur AB
2024
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Sjuksköterskan som arbetar inom barnsjukvård möter barn i olika åldrar, allt från nyfödda till 18-åriga ungdomar. Omvårdnaden måste anpassas för barn med olika ohälsotillstånd utifrån deras behov, förutsättningar och utvecklingsnivå. I mötet med barnet och familjen får sjuksköterskan också ta del av barnets tankar, vilket ofta är en glädje, men det kan också vara en utmaning eftersom barnet och dess familj befinner sig i en sårbar situation. När barn drabbas av ohälsa, olycksfall eller svår sjukdom påverkas hela familjen och ofta är det dessutom barnets första kontakt med hälso- och sjukvården. Hur detta möte upplevs kan påverka barnets och familjens framtida kontakter med hälso- och sjukvård.För att kunna ge god och säker vård krävs mångfacetterade kunskaper. Därför får läsaren ta del av sjuksköterskors, läkares, farmaceuters och psykologers kunskaper och erfarenheter om olika sjukdomar och tillstånd hos barn som är i behov av vård. Boken har ett barn- och familjecentrerat fokus och tar sin utgångspunkt i ett tydligt omvårdnadsperspektiv.Målgruppen är i första hand studenter i specialistsjuksköterskeprogram på avancerad nivå, men även närliggande yrkesgrupper som arbetar med barn och unga inom vård och omsorg kan med fördel läsa boken.
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Surukodin kirja

Surukodin kirja

Helena Castrén

KIRJAPAJA
2011
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Sureva ei tunteiden ristiaallokossa aina säilytä normaalia toimintakykyään. Tarvitaan välittäviä lähimmäisiä sekä ohjeita ja neuvoja, miten aivan uudet, kipeät tehtävät tulisi hoitaa. Helena Castren kirjoittaa lämmöllä, papin työssä ja psykoterapeuttina saamansa kokemuksen turvin. Hän opastaa, miten saada kiinni elämästä surun keskellä. Kirja tekee hallittavan tuntuisiksi asiat, jotka pitää ratkaista hautajaisten edellä. Castren rohkaisee rakentamaan sellaisen surujuhlan, joka sopii omaisille parhaiten ja syvimmin kunnioittaa vainajan muistoa.
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Anna elämän kantaa

Anna elämän kantaa

Helena Castrén

KIRJAPAJA
2014
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Merkkipäivä on eräänlainen taitekohta. Silloin pysähdytään miettimään, mitä kaikkea vuodet ovat tuoneet tullessaan. Helena Castrén antaa lukijalle ikään kuin peilin, johon katsoen voi puntaroida elettyä elämää. Raamatusta tutut kolme sisarusta käyvät kirjassa vuoropuheluun lukijan kanssa. Moni tunnistaa heissä itsensä: Työn ja touhun vuosina olemme kuin Martta, mutta on aikoja, jolloin saa asettua hiljaa kuuntelemaan kuin Maria. Joskus taas on aika ponnistaa irti kahleista kuten Lasarus. Kirja auttaa ymmärtämään omaa elämänhistoriaa ja katsomaan hyväksyen kaikkea, mitä on ollut, mitä on ja mitä on tuleva. Tyytyväisyyttä kannattaa opetella. Taivaan kansalainen löytää voimaa uskosta ja rukouksesta.
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Hipertonia diafragmática em cantores líricos

Hipertonia diafragmática em cantores líricos

Tati Helene

Novas Edicoes Academicas
2021
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Ao fisioterapeuta cabe analisar as quest es posturais do cantor l rico, assim como dores, tens es, assimetrias estruturais e qualquer efeito delet rio que acometa os sistemas corporais devido sua atividade profissional como atleta da voz. Infelizmente, a pesquisa dedicada a este grupo particular de artistas e suas especificidades do ponto de vista fisioterap utico praticamente inexistente. Este livro foi escrito com a finalidade de preencher essa lacuna, abordando as causas, consequ ncias e poss veis abordagens de tratamento e preven o da hipertonicidade diafragm tica nos cantores l ricos, e abrindo caminho para a produ o de mais obras acad micas sobre a atividade dos cantores l ricos profissionais.
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