Isbn: 9780060777296 - the devil's broker: seeking gold, god, and glory in fourteenth-century italy (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. At the end of the Hundred Years' War, hordes of newly unemployed mercenary soldiers set their sites on the opulent city-states of Italy. The greatest of all the bandit chiefs was Hawkwood, a military genius who formed his own army and cleverly pitted ancient rivals against each other amid his reign of blood and terror. Frances Stonor Saunders brings this tumultuous time to life in The Devil's Broker. As Hawkwood ransacked the nation's treasuries, the Black Plague killed rich and poor alike and a violent religious schism forced the Pope to seek refuge in Avignon. Saint Catherine of Siena, an anorexic with a hunger for power, the crabby, comfort-loving Petrarch, and a diplomat/spy named Geoffrey Chaucer are also featured in this rich and lavish portrait of Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance.Frances Stonor Saunders is the author of The Cultural Cold War, published by the New Press in 2000 to spectacular reviews and strong international sales. She is an acclaimed documentarian who has also worked as the arts editor for The New Statesman."Simply the most vivid account of the late medieval world I have ever read." -- Terry Jones.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. At the end of the Hundred Years' War, hordes of newly unemployed mercenary soldiers set their sites on the opulent city-states of Italy. The greatest of all the bandit chiefs was Hawkwood, a military genius who formed his own army and cleverly pitted ancient rivals against each other amid his reign of blood and terror. Frances Stonor Saunders brings this tumultuous time to life in The Devil's Broker. As Hawkwood ransacked the nation's treasuries, the Black Plague killed rich and poor alike and a violent religious schism forced the Pope to seek refuge in Avignon. Saint Catherine of Siena, an anorexic with a hunger for power, the crabby, comfort-loving Petrarch, and a diplomat/spy named Geoffrey Chaucer are also featured in this rich and lavish portrait of Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance.Frances Stonor Saunders is the author of The Cultural Cold War, published by the New Press in 2000 to spectacular reviews and strong international sales. She is an acclaimed documentarian who has also worked as the arts editor for The New Statesman."Simply the most vivid account of the late medieval world I have ever read." -- Terry Jones.…

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hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. Color and black-and-white Illustrations. 396 pages, 8vo, two-toned boards, d.w. (New York): Fourth Estate, (2004). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. B medieval his: Near fine regular size hardcover; some bumping to the lower page edges else clean in a nf jacket. pictorial/red w/white lettering Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very good cloth copy in very good dustjacket. xviii, 396 pages, colour plates. Slight felt tip mark (2 cms) on bottom edge Published in the UK under the title "Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman". Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 396 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: very good. New York , NY : Fourth Estate, c2004. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xviii, 396 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780060777296. Keywords : HISTORY.

Zustand: Gut. XVIII, 396 Seiten / p. Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - There were good ways to die, and there were bad ways to die. -- So begins this effervescent history of an Italy about to shake itself free of the medieval age and move confidently into the Renaissance. First, though, there was an ordeal to pass through, one worthy of the imagination of Dante. -- Unleashed by a pause in the cataclysmic Hundred Years War, hordes of soldiers with an appetite for pillage swooped down on the opulent city-states K of Italy - bloated with gold from trade and the birth of the modern banking industry - and commenced to unburden them of their wealth. The greatest of all the mercenary captains was Sir John Hawkwood, an English expatriate and military genius who formed his own army and cleverly pitted ancient rivals against one another: Florence against Siena, Milan against the papacy - collecting tribute from them all, holding the Pope for ransom, and setting blood running in the streets. -- The Devils Broker is more than a riveting account of fortunes gained and lost by treachery and the sword: it is a lavish portrait of the fourteenth century, which Barbara Tuchman called "calamitous; the Black Plague that struck down the mighty and the abject with equal ferocity; the violent schism in the Catholic Church that sent the Pope scurrying to Avignon for safety; the religious mania offset by a gargantuan appetite for spectacle, lux ury, and self-indulgence. Among the other titans moving through Frances Stonor Saunderss magnificent narrative are the anorexic and power hungry St. Catherine of Siena, an ill-tempered and comfortloving Petrarch, and a curious and amused diplomatspy named Geoffrey Chaucer, who would draw on Hawkwoods career for his own "Knights Tale. -- The meticulous archiving and record-keeping of medieval Italian notaries means that this history has come to us in the intimate words of its most vital actors; Frances Stonor Saunders has combed tirelessly through original documents to produce a history seemingly as immediate and relevant as events of yesterday. She is a prodigious talent. ISBN 9780060777296 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 697 Originalpappband mit Originalumschlag / Originalhardcover with dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xviii, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm English.