Royal Enchantment

Author : Sharon Ashwood
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488031207
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Enchantment written by Sharon Ashwood and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She married the king. She wanted the man. Guinevere's marriage to Arthur was a political partnership, never a romance. Merlin knows that the king's court, newly restored at a medieval theme park, will only be complete if Arthur has his lady. Little did anyone suspect that once Guinevere gets a taste of twenty-first-century freedoms that this ancient queen would lose interest in belonging to any man—even a royal one. It takes a dragon, and some passionate nights spent in each other's arms, to lure her back to her husband's side. Arthur is willing to accept Gwen's help in protecting the new Camelot from a fae menace, but the bigger challenge will be wooing back Guinevere for a second chance at love…

Author : Mary D. Sheriff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648324X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Islands written by Mary D. Sheriff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.

Author : Ronald G. Asch
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782383573
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment written by Ronald G. Asch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.

Author : Sharon Ashwood
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1474063470
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Enchantment (Mills & Boon Nocturne) written by Sharon Ashwood and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She married the king. She wanted the man.

Author : Lia Davis
Publisher : Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1948121468
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Their Royal Ash written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life as a princess isn’t as glamorous as it seems. For Tia Ashley, it’s a well-hidden secret. One she’s willing to take to her grave. Her step-father, King Balsatra, isn’t a caring ruler or father. He killed her mother and turned Tia into a servant. Her stepbrothers couldn’t help her out of fear of their father’s wrath. The day Tia turned eighteen, she fled the palace and far away from the Kregon Kingdom to a small village where no one knows her. Her new life is short lived when her three stepbrothers and their two guards arrive asking questions about the missing princess. There was no way she was going back to the palace to endure any more of the King’s abuse. Conell, Ayen, Elion, Kieran, and Jonah had other plans. The kind that involved taking the throne and ending the Kings rein of terror.

Author : Margaret Rogerson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481497588
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Enchantment of Ravens written by Margaret Rogerson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts--even as she falls in love with a faerie prince--in this gorgeous debut novel. 6 x 9.

Author : Sela Croft
Publisher : Camden Lee Press, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchantment's Trap written by Sela Croft and published by Camden Lee Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire Prince risks it all in the war with the Fae. Callie discovers untold powers, connects with her past, and transforms in a way she never expected. The rescue of her sister teeters in the balance. A centuries-old sorceress, vampire magic, and a horrifying blood exchange thrust her into a new state and unexpected consequences. Logan taps into his supernatural abilities to save Callie and her sister. Yet he meets with forces more powerful than anticipated. A life-changing event releases his strength as never before. The prince must save the woman he loves, and the very world he lives in.

Author : Tom Nairn
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844677753
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Glass written by Tom Nairn and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed study of British statehood, identity and culture, Tom Nairn deftly dispels the conviction that the Royal Family is nothing more than an amusing relic of feudalism or a mere tourist attraction. Instead, he argues that the monarchy is both apex and essence of the British state, the symbol of a national backwardness. In this fully updated edition, Nairn’s powerful and bitterly comic prose lays bare Britain’s peculiar, pseudo-modern, national identity—which remains stubbornly fixated on the Crown and its constitutional framework, the “parliamentary sovereignty” of Westminster.

Author : Patrick Curry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000853292
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Enchantment written by Patrick Curry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of enchantment in relation to art, including liminality, it offers studies of different kinds of artistic experience and activity, including painting, music, fiction and poetry, before exploring the possibility of a life oriented to enchantment as the activity of art itself. With attention to the complex relationship between wonder in art and the programmatic disenchantment to which it is often subject, the author draws on the thought of a diverse range of philosophers, sociological theorists and artists, to offer an understanding of art through the idea of enchantment, and enchantment through art. An accessible study, richly illustrated with experience – both that of the author and others – Art and Enchantment will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and anyone with interests in the nature of aesthetic experience.

Author : Joseph Clinton Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Percy anecdotes, original and select, by Sholto and Reuben Percy written by Joseph Clinton Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: