Alfred Duggan eBooks
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Julius Caesar. E-book. Formato EPUB Alfred Duggan - Librorium Editions, 2026 -
Civilization arose about 5,000 years before Christ, when over a wide arc of land between the Caucasus and the Red Sea men began to till the soil; and because they tilled the soil their permanent villages slowly increased to cities. To a primitive mind agriculture is obviously a divine activity. The god makes the seedcorn grow in the ground; he also controls the seasons, and you must plant and weed, or in a more advanced culture plough the field, at the time arranged by the divine calendar. So these early cities were ruled by their gods, through human intermediaries. Sometimes the human intermediary was himself a god, like the Pharaoh of Egypt; sometimes, as in the Sumerian cities, he was the high priest, who alone could communicate with heaven. But in either case the source of his power was supernatural; it had nothing to do with his prowess in war. Probably the last remaining representative of these divine rulers is the Emperor of Japan.
Lord Geoffrey’s Fancy. E-book. Formato EPUB Alfred Duggan - Librorium Editions, 2026 -
Yesterday I overheard one of my grandchildren boasting that his grandmother, my wife, had been a cannibal heathen Turk until she married me. So I have decided to write down the adventures of my youth; partly to inform my descendants of their noble, Christian and civilised ancestry; but partly as some little memorial to the hero I followed in my youth, the best knight in all Romanie, my lord Geoffrey de Bruyere.I myself was born into one of the great families of England, the Briwerrs. But my father was the younger son of a younger son, holding only a single fee from the Bohuns of the Welsh March; and in the very year of my birth, 1233, the greatness of the Briwerrs vanished with the death of Sir William Briwerr of Devon. He had been one of the foremost barons of England, a stubborn old-fashioned King’s Man who told Archbishop Langton to his face that Magna Carta did not bind King Henry, for it had been extorted from his father by force. Yes, while he was alive the Briwerrs mattered. But he left no male heir, and his lands were divided among women. Nowadays there is no great magnate to look after country knights of the house of Briwerr.
Knight With Armour. E-book. Formato EPUB Alfred Duggan - Librorium Editions, 2026 -
Osbert fitz Ralph held the manor of Bodeham in Sussex from the Count of Eu. But in the winter of 1095 the Count was in the King’s prison, awaiting sentence for his unsuccessful rebellion last summer; his tenants in southern England, who had been too closely watched to dare to join in the rising, hoped they would soon hold direct from the King, after the land had been confiscated. Still, it would be blatantly unfaithful to go to the King’s court while their lord was his prisoner, so Osbert and his two sons, Ralph and Roger, kept that Christmas of 1095 at the new and half-built Abbey of Battle