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Author : Christopher Harper-Bill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851157962
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Norman Studies XXII written by Christopher Harper-Bill and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Keith Stringer
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788853407
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland written by Keith Stringer and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2004-07-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power and local leadership made them a central factor in medieval Scottish society. Issues discussed include the influence of Anglo-Norman England on earlier medieval Scotland, patterns of land accumulation by the aristocracy, noble residences, the legal and administrative aspects of baronial lordship, clientage, and dealings between magnates and the Church. Throughout, the essays stress the importance of recognising that, before the Wars of Independence, the nobility of Scotland was closely bound by ties of kinship and property with the nobility in England and emphasise that the common assumption of perpetual opposition between baronage and the Crown is a myth. First published in 1985, these essays remain essential reading on the subject.
Author : Mandell Creighton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The English Historical Review written by Mandell Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230060
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Bread Winner written by Emma Griffin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era--and struggled to survive despite increasing national prosperity "A powerful story of social realities, pressures, and the fracturing of traditional structures."--Ruth Goodman, Wall Street Journal "Deeply researched and sensitive."--Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph, "Best History Books of 2020" Nineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's wealth. Unable to earn a sufficient income themselves, working-class women were reliant on the 'breadwinner wage' of their husbands. When income failed, or was denied or squandered by errant men, families could be plunged into desperate poverty from which there was no escape. Emma Griffin unlocks the homes of Victorian England to examine the lives - and finances - of the people who lived there. Drawing on over 600 working-class autobiographies, including more than 200 written by women, Bread Winner changes our understanding of daily life in Victorian Britain.
Author : C. R. Fonge
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781843831075
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Cartulary of St Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick written by C. R. Fonge and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction in the edition examines the foundation of the college, its acquisition of property, and its constitutional development and character."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nicholas Orme
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300111026
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Medieval Schools written by Nicholas Orme and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to Nicholas Orme's widely praised study, Medieval Children Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces their history from the Romans to the Renaissance, showing how they developed, what they taught, how they were run, and who attended them. Every kind of school is covered, from reading schools in churches and town grammar schools to schools in monasteries and nunneries, business schools, and theological schools. The author also shows how they fitted into a constantly changing world, ending with the impacts of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Medieval schools anticipated nearly all the ideas, practices, and institutions of schooling today. Their remarkable successes in linguistic and literary work, organizational development, teaching large numbers of people shaped the societies that they served. Only by understanding what schools achieved can we fathom the nature of the middle ages.
Author : Marjorie Chibnall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0851153666
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Battle Conference written by Marjorie Chibnall and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1994 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Turner
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399067362
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Royal Bastards of Twelfth Century England written by James Turner and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many storied monarchs of twelfth century England lived, fought, loved, and died surrounded by their illegitimate relatives. While their many contributions have too often been overlooked, these illegitimate sons, daughters and siblings occupied crucial positions within the edifice of royal authority, serving their legitimate relatives as proxies and lieutenants. In addition to occupying roles and offices at the center of royal administration, Anglo-Norman and Angevin royal bastards, exiled to the fringes of family identity by a twist of fate, provided the kings of England with military and political support from amidst the aristocratic affinities into which they were embedded. Rather than merely inert pieces on the dynastic game board or passive conduits of royal association, these men and women were engaged participants in contemporary politics, proactively cultivating and shaping the thrones’ relationship with its principal subjects. This book, the first full length study dedicated to the subject, examines the seminal conflicts and changing shape of the royal dynasty during a period of turbulent and formative development in the nature and institutions royal government through the rarely before accessed perspective of the reigning monarchs’ illegitimate family members and deputies. More than that this study aims, as far as possible, to illuminate and bring to life the lives, triumphs and tragedies of these fascinating half-forgotten personages. The victims of a rapid and profound demographic and social change which drastically recontextualized their position with royal family identity and aristocratic society, the bastards of the English royal family found new methods to survive and thrive.
Author : Steven C. A. Pincus
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156057
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book 1688 written by Steven C. A. Pincus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 through a broad geographical and chronological framework, discussing its repercussions at home and abroad and why the subsequent ideological break with the past makes it the first modern revolution.
Author : Anthony Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134940483
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Wars of the Roses written by Anthony Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. The second half of the fifteenth century was one of the most turbulent periods of English history. Present popular knowledge of the bitter struggle for the throne between the rival houses of York and Lancaster derives largely from Shakespeare's history plays, which in their turn were coloured by Tudor propaganda, and most books on the Wars of the Roses have concentrated on politics and personalities. Discussion of military matters has hitherto been chiefly confined to colourful and sometimes fanciful accounts of the major battles, on which accurate information is scanty. The present work is a military history of the Wars of the Roses. In the first part is presented an overall view of the campaigns, from the first skirmishes of 1452 to the last campaign in 1497 and examines the general ship of the commanders in both camps. In the second covering military organisation- how armies were recruited, paid, fed, billeted, armed and deployed- the author shows that in a period of rapid change in European methods of warfare the English were not so old-fashioned as has sometimes been supposed. In conclusion he assesses the effects of the wars on society in general. The book makes extensive use of fifteenth century sources, both English and Continental, including chronicles, civic records and letters, and presents a vivid picture of the wars as they were seen and described by contemporaries.
Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521090131
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Beaumont Twins written by David Crouch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines a study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England.
Author : Laura L. Gathagan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277521
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Haskins Society Journal 33 - 2021 written by Laura L. Gathagan and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages, interrogating primary documents to yield new insights into our understanding of the past.
Author : M.A. Hicks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317898974
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Bastard Feudalism written by M.A. Hicks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major work is the most radical reinterpretation of the subject for fifty years. Hicks argues that Bastard Feudalism was far more complex - and positive in its effects - than previous accounts have suggested. A major contribution to historical debate which revolutionises our view of late medieval society.
Author : Harold E. Raugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351147587
Total Pages : 1025 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The British Army 1815-1914 written by Harold E. Raugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the evolution of the British Army during the century-long Pax Britannica, from the time Wellington considered its soldiers 'the scum of the earth' to the height of the imperial epoch, when they were highly-respected 'soldiers of the Queen'. The British Army during this period was a microcosm and reflection of the larger British society. As a result, this study of the British Army focuses on its character and composition, its officers and men, efforts to improve its efficiency and effectiveness and its role and performance on active service while an instrument of British Government policy.
Author : Berenice M. Kerr
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191542865
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Religious Life for Women c.1100-c.1350 written by Berenice M. Kerr and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed scholarly study of the Order of Fontevraud's English monastic houses. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Order was notably prestigious and autonomous, renowned both for the prayerfulness of its members and for their independent management of their affairs. The huge following of Robert Arbrissel (d. 1116) included many women - not at first the aristocrats who later dominated the Order of Fontevraud, but prostitutes, beggars, and other representatives of the dregs of society. Urged by Church authorities to stabilize his women followers, Robert gave them a Rule which was, in essentials, that of St Benedict, but he introduced men as chaplains, clerks, and lay-brothers for the nuns. Uniquely, however, for contemporary houses for women, the men were placed firmly under the direction of the nuns and remained there throughout the Order's history. Sister Berenice Kerr's study of Fontevraud's English establishments: Amesbury, Nuneaton, and Westwood (Grovebury, the Order's fourth foundation, was never more than administrative centre) opens up a wide range of insights and information about monasticism and religious life for women in the middle ages. Dr Kerr examines the endowment of each house, and its subsequent acquisition of property and its administration; monastic observance; domestic economy, including expenditure on food and drink; the scale and layout of conventual buildings, and the exploitation of new assets, such as salt-pans, markets, and appropriated churches.
Author : Jim Bradbury
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752471929
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Stephen and Matilda written by Jim Bradbury and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen's reign was one of the darkest periods of English history. He had promised Henry I that he would support the king's daughter, Matilda, as the rightful heir to the English throne, but when Henry dies in December 1135 he broke his promise and quickly made himself king. Like many of the nobles, he was unwilling to yield the crown to a woman. Civil wars and the battle for the English Crown dominated his reign, and this fascinating book examines the conflict between Stephen and his cousin. The campaigns, battles and sieges of England's first civil war are explored, including the two major battles at the Standard adn Lincoln, which show that Stephen always held more ground than his opponents and was mostly on the offensive. The two sides finally reached a compromise, after 14 years, with the Treaty of Wallingford - Stephen would rule unopposed until his death but the throne would then pass to Henry of Anjou, Matilda's son. Full of colourful characters, this is a fascinating story of rivalry for the English throne which throws new light on a neglected aspect of Stephen's reign.
