Barker, Juliet R. V.

The Brontës by Juliet R. V Barker ( Book )
21 editions published between 1994 and 2010 in English and held by 1,933 libraries worldwide
The story of the Brontes as an apparently doomed family of genius was created by biographers who were primarily novelists. However, this book, based on first-hand research amongst all the Bronte manuscripts and amongst contemporary historical works, claims to tell the true story.

Wordsworth : a life by Juliet R. V Barker ( Book )
18 editions published between 2000 and 2006 in English and held by 1,188 libraries worldwide
Orphaned and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, Wordsworth became the archetypal teenage rebel. He went to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate daughter and became a committed republican. His poetry was as revolutionary as his politics, challenging convention in form, style, and subject, and earning him the contempt of critics. Only the encouragement of a group of supporters, above all Coleridge, kept him true to his poetic vocation. In the half-century that followed, his reputation was transformed. His advocacy of imagination and feeling touched a chord in an increasingly industrial, mechanistic age, and his influence was profoundly felt in every sphere of life. In the last decade of his life, his home became a place of pilgrimage for people who came to pay their respects to his genius. His legacy, as a poet and as the spiritual founder of the conservation movement, remains with us today.--From publisher description.

Agincourt : Henry V and the battle that made England by Juliet R. V Barker ( Book )
6 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in English and held by 1,019 libraries worldwide
"Two armies face off across a sodden plateau in northeastern France, each waiting for the other to make the first move. On one side are the English, suffering from dysentery and starvation, their numbers devastated. Arrayed against them is a rested and well-fed French army, a sea of burnished armor and menacing weaponry primed to slaughter the foolish invaders. Nevertheless, the charismatic and brilliant English king, twenty-eight-year-old Henry V, defies conventional military wisdom and leads his "band of brothers" forward. His troops are outnumbered six to one." "What follows is one of the most remarkable battles in history, celebrated for almost six centuries as the classic triumph of the underdog in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Immortalized by Shakespeare and by contemporary historians, the battle of Agincourt has been embellished and edited by the quill of unbridled nationalism. Now, drawing on a wide range of primary sources and original research, medievalist Juliet Barker casts aside the myth and shows us the truth behind Henry's invasion of France and the showdown at Agincourt. She paints a narrative of the entire campaign, from the preparations to the reaping of the spoils. We are there in the English camps as common men struggle to secure buckles and laces with numb fingers; in the French front lines as petulant noblemen squabble over positions in the vanguard; and in the deep mud as heavily armed knights stumble and struggle under a barrage of arrows so thick and fast that it darkens the skies." "Barker also takes us beyond the battlefield to bring into focus the dynamics of medieval life in peace and war. We meet ordinary and extraordinary people such as Margaret Merssh, a female blacksmith who forges arms in the Tower of London; Lord Grey of Codnor, who pawns his own armor to pay his soldiers' wages; and Raoul de Gaucourt, the gallant French knight who surrenders himself into English custody simply because the code of chivalry compels him to do so."--BOOK JACKET. Also includes information on archers, armour, chivalry, coats of arms, gunpowder, heralds, horses, knights, men at arms, prisoners, ships, tournaments, Tower of London, wine, women, etc.

Tournaments : jousts, chivalry, and pageants in the Middle Ages by Richard W Barber ( Book )
6 editions published between 1989 and 2000 in English and held by 951 libraries worldwide
Illustrations and text describe medieval tournaments in detail.

The Brontës : a life in letters ( Book )
10 editions published between 1997 and 2006 in English and held by 728 libraries worldwide

The tournament in England, 1100-1400 by Juliet R. V Barker ( Book )
9 editions published between 1986 and 2003 in English and held by 426 libraries worldwide

Agincourt : the King, the campaign, the battle by Juliet R. V Barker ( Book )
5 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 295 libraries worldwide

Conquest : the English kingdom of France, 1417-1450 by Juliet R. V Barker ( Book )
3 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 232 libraries worldwide

Tournaments : jousts, chivalry and regents in the Middle Ages by Richard W Barber ( Book )
1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 216 libraries worldwide

Juvenilia, 1829-1835 by Charlotte Brontë ( Book )
2 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 215 libraries worldwide