King Richard I

EAP published her epic poem: Coeur de Lion ; or, The Third Crusade. A Poem, in Sixteen Books, dedicated with permission to George IV .

Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...

The poem shows a good sense of history. It defends Richard I against Hume 's condemnation, using a very up-to-date scientific metaphor to express EAP 's opinions about historiography: A blind admiration for the Great...

Set in the early 1190s, it begins with King Richard I of England fighting the Third Crusade. Its characters therefore run to the exotic: Saracens, slaves, dervishes. The introduction deploys, with much pseudo-scholarly detail, the...

In this extremely well-populated series, this first Plantagenet led a long procession. Its followers were two novels in 1977, The Revolt of the Eaglets, and The Heart of the Lion (about Richard Coeur de Lion

The story concerns Richard I and the Third Crusade. NL carefully enumerates her departures from the historical record (two serious ones apart from some imaginary characters). The incident involving the lute-player of the title, Edward...

This novel reveals how, as a historian and a novelist, NL was engaged in the effort to render history, and specifically the history of powerful women, accessible to contemporary readers. Eleanor of Aquitaine is one...

Many of the stories cover well-known ground. The Geese of Rome are the ones that saved the Capitol from surprise attack by gabbling; The Noblest of the Romans is Cincinnatus laying down the reins of...

In this work LSC displays meticulous attention to historical detail, discussing figures connected with French history from Richard the Lion-Hearted to Napoleon . A modern critic suggests on the one hand that it...