Courtiers 9781250282576, 9781250282569

Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor 125028256X, 9781250282569, 9781250282576

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them. Who

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De nugis curialium / Courtiers’ Trifles 0-19-822236-X

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Lives of the Ancient Egyptians: Pharaohs, Queens, Courtiers and Commoners 9780500051481, 9780500771624, 0500051488

100 biographies reveal the true character and diversity of the ancient world's greatest civilization The biographi

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Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk 9781503625891

Since the hiring of the first Supreme Court law clerk by Associate Justice Horace Gray in the late 1880s, court observer

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The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris 9780226248332

The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links

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The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan 9780824864743

The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations—where rowdy monk

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Of Courtiers and Kings: The Biblical Daniel Narratives and Ancient Story-Collections 9781575068695

Holm’s book is an innovative approach to the biblical Book of Daniel. It places Daniel against the background of story-c

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Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck: Self Representation by Early Modern Elites 0367439085, 9780367439088

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustr

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Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck: Self Representation by Early Modern Elites (Routledge Research in Art History) [1 ed.] 0367439085, 9780367439088

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early m

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