Tag: Splendor

Free Download The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace (Bloomsbury Publishing) by Lucy Worsley
English | October 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 0802719872 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 4.15 MB
Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace’s glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II . In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley’s The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life.

Free Download Paul Freedman, "The Splendor and Opulence of the Past: Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia "
English | ISBN: 1501772228 | 2023 | 354 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717-1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia’s medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar’s books, essays, and transcriptions―some only recently discovered―provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation’s past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture.

Free Download Lydia Jaeger, "Ordinary Splendor: Living in God’s Creation"
English | ISBN: 1683596994 | 2023 | 208 pages | EPUB | 9 MB