Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Kings-at-Arms
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love historical fiction about courts, war and exile, and who enjoy a rich, formal style and stories of power, ambition and divided loyalties.
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Kings-at-Arms is a historical novel by Marjorie Bowen, the English writer who published under several names and who died in 1952. It belongs to the world of her many romances of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in which kings, soldiers and exiles move through a Europe at war.
The book is set in the age of Charles XII of Sweden, a time of conquest, retreat and rival empires in northern and eastern Europe. Readers of this kind of novel meet courts, campaigns, divided loyalties and the cost of ambition. In this summary you will find what the book is, the kind of story it tells, and what to look for as you read. Let us begin with the setting.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A Europe shaped by a young warrior kingFree
- 2Conquest tests every loyalty
- 3Exile and the loss of home
- 4Empires clash and individuals pay
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A Europe shaped by a young warrior king
The age of Charles XII is one of the most dramatic stretches of early eighteenth century history. Sweden, under a young king, stood at the head of a northern empire and faced a ring of rivals. Wars in the Baltic lands and further east drew in many nations.
A novel set in such a time has a wide stage. Armies cross frozen country, rulers weigh alliances, and ordinary people are swept along by decisions made far above them.
Bowen was drawn to periods like this one. Her fiction tends to place private feeling against the pressure of public events, so that a single choice can matter as much as a battle.
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Questions about Kings-at-Arms
Who wrote Kings-at-Arms?
Kings-at-Arms was written by Marjorie Bowen, an English author who died in 1952. She wrote many historical novels, as well as biographies and tales of the supernatural, often under pen names.
What period is Kings-at-Arms set in?
The novel is set in the age of Charles XII of Sweden, in the early eighteenth century, when wars of conquest and shifting alliances reshaped northern and eastern Europe.
Is Kings-at-Arms a true story?
It is a historical novel, so it mixes invented story with a real historical setting. The age of Charles XII and its wars are real, while the plot is fiction.
What kind of book is Kings-at-Arms?
It is a historical romance of war, courts and exile. Readers who like richly detailed period fiction about power and loyalty will find the most in it.
What themes does Kings-at-Arms deal with?
The book deals with conquest, exile, loyalty and the clash of empires. Like much of Bowen's work, it shows how public events press on private lives.