English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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... France , the Black Death , the Peasants ' Revolt , and the Lollard movement . The Hundred Years ' War was waged ostensibly because the English kings had certain claims to the French throne , but really because the French kings tried to ...
... France , the Black Death , the Peasants ' Revolt , and the Lollard movement . The Hundred Years ' War was waged ostensibly because the English kings had certain claims to the French throne , but really because the French kings tried to ...
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... France perpetrated the Massacre of St. Bartholomew , when they tried in one night of slaughter to kill all the Huguenots ( as Protestants were called in France ) . When Elizabeth seemed to be desperately in love with the Duke of Alençon ...
... France perpetrated the Massacre of St. Bartholomew , when they tried in one night of slaughter to kill all the Huguenots ( as Protestants were called in France ) . When Elizabeth seemed to be desperately in love with the Duke of Alençon ...
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... France , and was thus able to resist Parliament and defeat these anti - Catholic plans , and when he died suddenly from apoplexy , James succeeded him . James tried openly to secure the ascendancy of the Catholics , and soon set the ...
... France , and was thus able to resist Parliament and defeat these anti - Catholic plans , and when he died suddenly from apoplexy , James succeeded him . James tried openly to secure the ascendancy of the Catholics , and soon set the ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
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