…Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209 – 1300
Synopsis:
During the early 13th century the north of what is now France went to war with the south in a bloody crusade aimed at destroying the heretical sect know as the Cathars. The conflict was characterized by vicious guerrilla actions and the besieging of the innumerable fortified sites [...]
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Cathar Castles… by Marcus Cowper
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 10th 2014
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Virgile’s Wine
The book in my previous post describes Virgile as he is setting out into wine production in 2001. At the back of the book the author Patrick provides an update stating that much has changed since 2001, Virgil has now become successful in the Languedoc wine industry. But his success has taken him away from [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Mar 4th 2014
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Virgile’s Vineyard by Patrick Moon
… A year in the Languedoc wine country
Synopsis (from the author’s website):
In Virgile’s Vineyard, Patrick Moon explores the world of Languedoc wine. Among the cast of characters that Patrick meets during his year of discovery is Virgile, a young local wine-maker who offers to initiate him into the mysteries of each seasons work in the [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2014
Synopsis (from book cover):
William George Armstrong was one of the leading and most successful of Great Britain’s nineteenth century engineers. At Elswick he began a career in mechanical and civil engineering, moving into armaments, and then on to naval and, at Walker, mercantile shipbuilding. In the later decades of the Victorian age his company was [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 7th 2014
… Sacred knowledge of the Ancient Britains
Synopsis from (from book cover):
The huge stone circle built in the British Isles and northwest France from 6500 to 3500 years ago are among civilisation’s strangest monuments. Ignored or plundered for centuries, they have only in modern times begun to reveal their remarkable complexity.
It is now widely acknowledged that [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2014
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Sarum by Edward Rutherford
Synopsis (from book cover):
Sarum is the towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion and properity. In a novel of extraordinary richness the whole sweep of British civilisation unfolds through the story of one place, Salisbury, from beyond recorded time to the present day. The landscaped – as old as time [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 16th 2014
Synopsis (from book cover):
The Hereford mappa mundi is the largest an most elaborate world map surviving from before teh fifteenth century. Designed at Lincoln by one Richard of Holdingham, it was made for Hereford in about 1300 and Hereford has been its home ever since.
There has been much speculation as to the identity of the [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 9th 2014
