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The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly... -
Law in a Time of Crisis by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one disagrees with it.' Daily Telegraph 'Time spent on Law in a... -
Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered from gridlock. In democracies, laws and policies are just as soon unpicked as made. It seems... -
The Challenges of Democracy: And The Rule of Law Jonathan Sumption 9781805222521
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A timely red alert that democratic values cannot be taken for granted' The Times 'Incisive and eloquent' The Telegraph NOW FEATURING A NEW ESSAY ON ISRAEL, GAZA AND INTERNATIONAL LAW Across... -
Bill of Rights: The Origin of Britain's Democracy by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.13In 2017, the Government's attempt to trigger Article 50 and so leave the European Union resulted in a judgement by the Supreme Court, which stated that the Government was unentitled to do so without... -
Edward III (Penguin Monarchs): A Heroic Failure by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward III ruled England for fifty years. He was a paragon of kingship in the eyes of his... -
The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God by Jonathan Sumption 9781587680250
Booksplease Price: £25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587680250Author Jonathan SumptionFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint HiddenSpringPublisher... -
Hundred Years War Vol 4: Cursed Kings by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.20Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the... -
Hundred Years War Vol 2: Trial By Fire by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.20In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French... -
Hundred Years War Vol 3: Divided Houses by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.20Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of... -
The Hundred Years War: Cursed Kings: Volume 4 by Jonathan Sumption 9780812223880
Booksplease Price: £59.13Jonathan Sumption's Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called "one of the great historical works of our time." Cursed Kings tells the story of the... -
The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion Jonathan Sumption 9780571274598
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.57'Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Gripping and eminently readable . . . a compelling... -
The Hundred Years War: Divided Houses: Pt. 3 by Jonathan Sumption 9780812221770
Booksplease Price: £73.72Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 The Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, and, most dramatically, drawn out struggle that laid the framework for the national... -
The Hundred Years War, Volume 5: Triumph and Illusion by Jonathan Sumption 9781512826760
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £50.52The final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic and prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War Triumph and Illusion is the final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War... -
Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle: Vol 1: Trial by Battle by Jonathan Sumption 9780571200955
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.68'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is... -
The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle: v.1: Trial by Battle by Jonathan Sumption 9780812216554
Booksplease Price: £57.60A History Book Club selectionAbout the AuthorA former history fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Jonathan Sumption is the author of The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial by Fire, The Hundred Years... -
Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases Sam Fowles 9780861542475
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09'A fascinating insider account' Grace Blakeley British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much power; and the truth doesn't matter at all. Those... -
Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases by Sam Fowles
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'A fascinating insider account' Grace Blakeley British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much power; and the truth doesn't matter at all. Those... -
A Brief History of the Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 Desmond Seward 9781841196787
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for... -
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A Brief History of the Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward 9781841196787 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.22For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for... -
Selected Letters by Horace Walpole
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting,... -
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The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329 by Rene Weis 9780140276695 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.41In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, became a serious threat to the Catholic church. In several waves of repression, thousands of Cathars were killed. Yet so... -
England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines by David Edgerton
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of Britain's War MachineThe history of England and... -
The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and and the English... -
Remarkable Minds: A Celebration of the Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 9781472262295
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLDThe best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the world... -
Chronicles of the Crusades by sire de Jean Joinville
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint Louis by John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts of going to war in the service of God. In the first years of the... -
Chronicles by Jean Froissart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.35The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of... -
The Clicking Of Cuthbert P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591124
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Who but P.G. Wodehouse could have extraced high comedy from the most noble and ancient game of golf? And who else could have combined this comedy with a real appreciation of the game, drawn from... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But... -
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas 9780141034492
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas's The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish... -
Georgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the... -
The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A gem of a book ... Inspiring and timely. Everyone should read it' Independent'The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern... -
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324 by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of... -
Castlereagh John Bew 9780857388407
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25The best political biography of the year' Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Wonderful . . . A Life so nearly complete it need never be written again' Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement By the... -
The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026 by Anthony Seldon 9781009749626
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.31Britain's decision to leave the European Union was perhaps the most divisive and consequential event of modern British politics. To assess its impact on the tenth anniversary of the referendum,... -
The Consequences of the Peace: The Versailles Settlement: Its Aftermath and Legacy 1919-2015 by Alan Sharp 9781908323927
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61The Versailles Settlement does not enjoy a good international reputation: despite its lofty aim to settle the world's affairs at a stroke, it is widely considered to have set the world on the path to... -
The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition J M Roberts 9781846144431
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the WorldFor generations of readers The Penguin History of the World... -
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan... -
Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258-1272 David Carpenter 9780300279337
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.19"There are few historians working today who know so much and write so well. Taken together, the two volumes of Henry III . . . set a gold standard for medieval royal biography."-Dan Jones, Times (UK)... -
Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality by Theodore Dalrymple 9781906142254
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.55In Spoilt Rotten, social commentator Theodore Dalrymple (Our Culture or What is Left of It, 2009) grinds his axe at our sentimentality-centric culture where feelings have become the yardstick of...