Fat, Bald and Worthless: Stories Behind Noble Nicknames - Hardcover

Easton, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0140515402 ISBN 13: 9780140515404

Verlag: Penguin, 2006

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Reseña del editor:

Was Ethelred the Unready always late for breakfast? Was Ivan the Terrible simply impossible to live with? Exactly how often did Wilfrid the Shaggy get a haircut? These vital historical questions - and others just as pressing - are explored in this investigation into the vainglorious, unfortunate, and sometimes downright insulting names that pepper the history books. Anyone with a love the quirky side of history will enjoy the capricious world of noble nicknames, where military tacticians can be celebrated for their drinking habits (Michael the Drunkard), successful diplomats can be mocked for their diminutive stature (Ladislaus the Elbow-High), and a vicious tyrant can be kowtowed to (John the Good).

Biografía del autor:

Revd Robert Easton was given his first nickname - aged 7 - by his siblings: Ridiculous Robert. Since then he has been Robert the Editor, at Boydell and Brewer, publishers of medieval history and literature; Robert the Correspondent, for BBC Radio, and mostly recently the Revd Robert, chaplain at Brighton College.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0140515402
• ISBN 13: 9780140515404
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320