Concentii Saga
Concentii Saga

Author: Mike Banfield

Publisher: Booktango

Published: 2013-04-08

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1468927671

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The Concentii are warriors of renown, after helping the northern king to wrestle the crown from his brother they are seen as a threat by the new king. He betrays them, sending them to fight an enemy of overwhelming numbers. This allows slavers to take their women and children. With their future threatened, they sail half way around the world to retrieve their loved ones. A story of kinship, bonds between warriors, their highs and lows.

The Dream Merchants
The Dream Merchants

Author: Harold Robbins

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 145204547X

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Return to a time when Hollywood was young and the movie industry was just starting out. In Harold Robbins' second novel, he captures a bygone era of entertainment pioneers turning cinematic dreams into reality. The Dream Merchants is a story of powerful men and passionate women, doing whatever they have to in order to succeed. Johnny Edge is a former carny hustler, filled with schemes and ambition. Peter Kessler trades in a life of being stuck in the hardware business for the fortunes of moviemaking. Actress Dulcie Warren isn't afraid to use her sexuality to fulfill her ambitions. And if she has to take someone down to get to the top? That's show business. Their worlds collide on the studio back lots at Magnum Pictures in moments of intrigue and entanglement. Robbins' own experiences at Universal Studios laid the foundation for The Dream Merchants, the novel that would later be made into an all-star miniseries featuring Mark Harmon, Morgan Fairchild, Eve Arden, Robert Culp, Jose Ferrer, Robert Goulet, and Fernando Lamas.

The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Lincoln Conspiracy

Author: Timothy L. O'Brien

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0345496779

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Police detective McFadden makes a startling discoveryNtwo documents that reveal the truth of the Lincoln conspiracy. His quest to bring the conspirators to justice takes him on a perilous journey into bawdy houses and back alleys where ruthless enemies await him in every corner.

History of the Normans
History of the Normans

Author: Dudo (Dean of St. Quentin)

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780851155524

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The author's imagination is matched by his language, so presenting the unwary reader with difficulties, which the author notes and discusses throughout, defining and explaining the many poetic metres and prose embellishments used, and identifying the sources of numerous borrowings; he also re-examines and collates the manuscripts and printed versions of the text, and considers the most recent scholarship in the field.

Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World
Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World

Author: James H. Barrett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1317247973

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This book is a study of communities that drew their identity and livelihood from their relationships with water during a pivotal time in the creation of the social, economic and political landscapes of northern Europe. It focuses on the Baltic, North and Irish Seas in the Viking Age (ad 1050–1200), with a few later examples (such as the Scottish Lordship of the Isles) included to help illuminate less well-documented earlier centuries. Individual chapters introduce maritime worlds ranging from the Isle of Man to Gotland — while also touching on the relationships between estate centres, towns, landing places and the sea in the more terrestrially oriented societies that surrounded northern Europe’s main spheres of maritime interaction. It is predominately an archaeological project, but draws no arbitrary lines between the fields of historical archaeology, history and literature. The volume explores the complex relationships between long-range interconnections and distinctive regional identities that are characteristic of maritime societies, seeking to understand communities that were brought into being by their relationships with the sea and who set waves in motion that altered distant shores.

Richer of Saint-Remi
Richer of Saint-Remi

Author: Justin Lake

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0813221250

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Building upon, but also moving beyond, previous scholarship that has focused on Richer's political allegiances and his views of kingship, this study by Justin Lake provides the most comprehensive synthesis of the History, examining Richer's use and abuse of his sources, his relationship to Gerbert, and the motives that led him to write.

Minni and Muninn
Minni and Muninn

Author: Pernille Hermann

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782503549101

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This volume consists of articles about terms for, concepts of and functions of memory. The articles deal with medieval Norse texts, such as sagas, myths, skaldic poems, laws and historiographical writings, and they refer to theoretical insights from international memory studies that have developed recently. In recent years, various branches of memory studies have provided useful tools of analysis that offer new ways of understanding medieval cultures. The articles in this collection draw on these new theoretical tools for studying - and conceptualizing - memory, in order to reassess the function of memory in medieval Nordic culture. Despite its interdisciplinary and comparative basis, the volume remains very much an empirical study of memory and memory-dependent issues as these took form in the Nordic world.