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  • A History of Rameslie and The Battle of Hastings
    David EP Dennis
    What if the landscape of the Norman invasion was larger, more complicated and less securely understood than we have assumed? Where exactly did William’s forces come ashore? Across what landscape did they move? And where should archaeologists now look for the physical evidence of the Battle of Hastings and its dead?A History of Rameslie and the Battle of Hastings brings together...
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    46,50 €

  • Hermit Bluebeard and the Queen of Fairyland
    David EP Dennis
    England in 1450 was approaching a crisis of government.The Black Death had transformed society. Labour had become scarce and valuable, yet attempts were repeatedly made to restrain wages and preserve older obligations. Taxation was resented. Officials were accused of corruption and extortion. England’s great military conquests in France were collapsing with astonishing speed, s...
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    28,10 €

  • Jack Cade - A Southern Rebellion
    David EP Dennis
    Jack Cade has not been treated kindly by history.Remembered as a violent rebel, a criminal adventurer and, through Shakespeare, almost a figure of ridicule, Cade has become detached from the remarkable political movement that brought thousands of people onto the roads of southern England in 1450.But what if the traditional picture is wrong?Jack Cade - A Southern Rebellion retur...
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    28,04 €

  • Herstmonceux - The Story of a Village, Castle and Royal Observatory
    David EP Dennis
    Herstmonceux - The Story of a Village, Castle and Royal ObservatoryFrom the medieval settlement of Herste grew a Sussex community dominated by one of England’s great brick castles and generations of remarkable owners. But the story of Herstmonceux extends far beyond its famous castle walls.This book traces the village and parish across nearly a thousand years, from medieval lor...
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    39,34 €

  • What is it LIke to Be...a Raven?
    David EP Dennis
    This is the second in a series of books taking you from human to animal through imagination. Imagine changing from a human into one of Britain’s most intelligent birds, spreading your iridescent wings and soaring into the sky as a raven.Inspired by philosopher Thomas Nagel’s famous question, this beautifully illustrated book invites you to imagine the world through the eyes of ...
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    19,78 €

  • What is it Like to be a Hare?
    David EP Dennis
    This is the first in a series of books taking you from human to animal through imagination. Imagine waking one spring morning as a brown hare. Your hearing is sharper than ever before. Your eyes watch almost every direction at once. Every scent drifting on the breeze tells a story, while every shadow may conceal danger.Inspired by philosopher Thomas Nagel’s famous question, thi...
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    18,88 €

  • Hares and the Witch
    David EP Dennis
    This is a book for those who are Witches or followers of Wicca - or those interested in these crafts. The book contains a wide-ranging examination of the connection between hares and witchcraft, including the hare’s special nature, how it was hunted, its connection to the Devil, the moon and shape-shifting, marked by the Triskele symbol. There are chapters on witchcraft as a so...
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    33,32 €

  • A History of Witchcraft - in Hastings, Sussex and Further Afield
    David EP Dennis
    This illustrated book describes the practices and mysteries of witchcraft and cunning in the Hastings and Bexhill area of East Sussex - and the wider story of inquisition, examination, torture and execution of many so-called witches.It looks at Fallen Angels, The Book of Tobit, Jack in the Green, Shape-shifting animals and witches’ familiars, the problem of Ergot, the laws aga...
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    33,58 €

  • Simulation Theory
    David EP Dennis / Ellen Dennis
    Simulation Theory is a philosophical concept that has captivated the minds of thinkers, including scientists, philosophers and tech-enthusiasts alike. It poses profound questions about the nature of our existence, challenging the very fabric of what we perceive as reality. Despite its title and intriguing premises, Simulation Theory is not yet considered a full scientific theor...
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    30,93 €

  • The Winchelsea Devil
    David EP Dennis
    Eustace Busket was a pirate genius who fought for England and then for France. Born near Boulogne, his life is intimately connected to Winchelsea in Sussex. He was trained as a satanist in the schools of devilry in Toledo, Spain. He learned the ways of the sea in the Mediterranean, then came to England and became its admiral with a house in Winchelsea and a palace in London. He...
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    23,52 €

  • The Attempted Assassination of King Henry III
    David EP Dennis
    In 1238, as King Henry III of England lay with his child bride at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, a crazed assassin entered his bedroom. Who had sent that assassin and why is the subject of this book. It involves the pirates of Lundy Island, corruption in Ireland, a gang of London murderers and a king who made dreadful decisions.In 1238, England was reeling from economic and military...
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    22,51 €

  • Illustrated Rye Town Guide
    Simon Parsons & David EP Dennis
    The Illustrated Rye Town Guide helps prospective visitors and holidaymakers - but also people far away but with a love of history, to understand how the Cinque Port of Rye, a beautiful hill town with a harbour in East Sussex, England, and its wonderful landscape, have developed over thousands of years. The Guide takes the reader from the Ice Ages, through the turbulent Saxon, V...
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    22,34 €

  • Rivers of Blood
    David EP Dennis
    The brilliant warrior-poet Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, in the district or quarter known as San Martino in May or June 1265. In later life, he was banished from his home in Florence by his enemies and began to write The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. This amazing poem described all the terrors, pains and wonders of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Dante had...
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    22,50 €

  • King Richard the Lionheart and the London Riots
    David EP Dennis
    King Richard the Lionheart was famous for his crusading spirit. He took with him to the Holy Land many young warriors and one of these was William Fitz Osbert. This man Fitz Osbert came from a good family had some legal training, yet he had dreadful character defects. He was constantly after money, plaguing his own brother also called Richard. Eventually Fitz Osbert, on his ret...
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    22,56 €

  • The History of Fore Wood, Crowhurst, East Sussex
    David EP Dennis
    Fore Wood is a jewel in the treasury of English woodlands.This wonderful example of a Western Oak Wood in the east of England has a long history as part of the giant forest of Anderida covering southern England, first with birch after the last ice age and then with mighty oaks. Its underlying geology is not chalk, but ironstone, a type of sandstone. Because the oaks and hornbea...
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    22,50 €

  • Vacarius and the Advent of Civil Law
    David EP Dennis
    Vacarius and the advent of Civil LawThis is Volume 1 of the series of books about Medieval Oxford University. The series will examine a wide range of positive and negative connections between the University and the world in medieval times (c.1066-1500). How did people at Oxford’s great seat of learning, by occupation or invitation, think - and what did they think about? What ki...
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    22,42 €

  • The History of Old Winchelsea
    David EP Dennis
    The medieval town of Old Winchelsea was destroyed by a great storm in 1287. Remarkably, it lasted for several hundred years on a shingle bank in the middle of Rye Bay in Sussex, England. This book describes the formation of the town, its incredible history of seaborne heroism, privateering and piracy, and its final destruction along with Dunwich in Suffolk, Old Romney, and Broo...
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    22,55 €