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Author : R. H. C. Davis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852850456
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book From Alfred the Great to Stephen written by R. H. C. Davis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two collected essays on late Anglo-Saxon and Norman history.
Author : Ralph Henry Carless Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472598875
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)
Download or read book From Alfred the Great to Stephen written by Ralph Henry Carless Davis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Garnett
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191518735
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Conquered England written by George Garnett and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquered England argues that Duke William of Normandy's claim to succeed Edward the Confessor on the throne of England profoundly influenced not only the practice of royal succession, but also played a large part in creating a novel structure of land tenure, dependent on the king. In these two fundamental respects, the attempt made in the aftermath of the Conquest to demonstrate seamless continuity with Anglo-Saxon England severed almost all continuity. A paradoxical result was a society in which instability in succession at the top exacerbated instability lower down. The first serious attempt to address these problems began when arrangements were made, in 1153, for the succession to King Stephen. Henry II duly succeeded him, but claimed rather to have succeeded his grandfather, Henry I, Stephen's predecessor. Henry II's attempts to demonstrate continuity with his grandfather were modelled on William the Conqueror's treatment of Edward the Confessor. Just as William's fabricated history had been the foundation for the tenurial settlement recorded in the Domesday Book, so Henry II's, in a different way, underpinned the early common law procedures which began to undermine aspects of that settlement. The official history of the Conquest played a crucial role not only in creating a new society, but in the development of that society.
Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521652032
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred.
Author : George Garnett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198726163
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Norman Conquest in English History written by George Garnett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the Battle of Hastings and Magna Carta have become common currency in political debate, this study of the role played by the Norman Conquest in English history between the eleventh and the seventeenth centuries is both timely and relevant.
Author : Britt Mize
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442644680
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Traditional Subjectivities written by Britt Mize and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Old English poetry so preoccupied with mental actions and perspectives, giving readers access to minds of antagonists as freely as to those of protagonists? Why are characters sometimes called into being for no apparent reason other than to embody a psychological state? Britt Mize provides the first systematic investigation into these salient questions in Traditional Subjectivities. Through close analysis of vernacular poems alongside the most informative analogues in Latin, Old English prose, and Old Saxon, this work establishes an evidence-based foundation for new thinking about the nature of Old English poetic composition, including the 'poetics of mentality' that it exhibits. Mize synthesizes two previously disconnected bodies of theory the oral-traditional theory of poetic composition, and current linguistic work on conventional language to advance our understanding of how traditional phraseology makes meaning, as well as illuminate the political and social dimensions of surviving texts, through attention to Old English poets' impulse to explore subjective perspectives.
Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000525139
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Old English Prose written by Paul E. Szarmach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion. The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various kinds to the current debates over literary theory and its multiple manifestations. The purpose of this collection is to assist the growing interest in Old English prose by providing essays that help establish the foundations for considered study and offer models and examples of special studies. Both retrospective and current in its examples, this collection can serve as a "first book" for an introduction to study, particularly suitable for courses that seek to entertain such issues as authorship, texts and textuality, source criticism, genre, and forms of historical criticism as a significant part of a broad, cultural teaching (and research) plan.
Author : Paul Dalton
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843833611
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (336 download)
Download or read book King Stephen's Reign (1135-1154) written by Paul Dalton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert coverage and new assessments of the reign of King Stephen, set in social, political and European context.
Author : Edmund King
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019159072X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign written by Edmund King and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1994-09-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of King Stephen (1135-54) is famous as a period of weak government, as Stephen and his rival the Empress Matilda contended for power. This is a study of medieval kingship at its most vulnerable. It also shows how individuals and institutions enabled the monarchy to survive. A contemporary chronicler described the reign as "nineteen long winters in which Christ and his saints were asleep". Historians today refer to it simply as 'the Anarchy'. The weakness of government was the result of a disputed succession. Stephen lost control over Normandy, the Welsh marches, and much of the North. Contemporaries noted as signs of weakness the tyranny of the lords of castles, and the break-down of coinage. Stephen remained king for his lifetime, but leading churchmen and laymen negotiated a settlement whereby the crown passed to the Empress's son the future Henry II. This volume by leading scholars gives an original and up-to-date analysis of these major themes, and explains how the English monarchy was able to survive the Anarchy of King Stephen's reign.
Author : James Sheridan Knowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Caius Gracchus. Virginius. William Tell. Alfred the Great. The hunchback. The wife. The beggar of Bethnal Green. The daughter written by James Sheridan Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Sheridan Knowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dramatic Works: Caius Gracchus. Virginius. William Tell. Alfred the Great; or, The patriot king. The hunchback. The wife; a tale of Mantua. The beggar of Bethnal Green. The daughter written by James Sheridan Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Mason
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851153964
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Westminster Abbey and Its People, C.1050-c.1216 written by Emma Mason and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the monastic community at Westminster from the time when Edward the Confessor 1042-1066] adopted it as his burial church down to the end of the reign of king John. Originating according to legend during the Roman occupation, the West Minster was converted from a little collegiate church into a Benedictine monastery around 970. However, the growth of its significance largely dates from its massive endowment by king Edward, who commissioned a lavish rebuilding of the abbey church, a focal point in his programme of monarchical propaganda. Dr Mason covers every aspect of the abbey community in detail examining the careers of the abbots and priors, whilst ensuring that lesser figures are not neglected: monks; craftsmen; lay servants; the personnel of the royal court who were closely associated with the abbey. The author also considers the community's dealings with the growing ecclesiastical bureaucracy; the management of its properties, including its parochial churches; and its relationship with other religious houses. Dr EMMA MASON teaches in the Department of History, Birkbeck College.
Author : William (of Malmesbury)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198206828
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Gesta Regum Anglorum written by William (of Malmesbury) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William of Malmesbury's Regesta Regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings) is one of the great histories of England, and one of the most important historical works of the European Middle Ages. Volume II of the Oxford Medieval Texts edition provides a full historical introduction, a detailed textual commentary, and an extensive bibliography. It forms the essential complement to the text and translation which appeared in Volume I.
Author : Judith A. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108210058
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Forging the Kingdom written by Judith A. Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the imperial coronation of Edgar in 973 and the death of Henry II in 1189, English society was transformed. This lively and wide-ranging study explores social and political change in England across this period, and examines the reasons for such developments, as well as the many continuities. By putting the events of 1066 firmly in the middle of her account, Judith Green casts new light on the significance of the Norman Conquest. She analyses the changing ways that kings, lords and churchmen exercised power, especially through the building of massive stone cathedrals and numerous castles, and highlights the importance of London as the capital city. The book also explores themes such as changes in warfare, the decline of slavery and the integration of the North and South West, as well as concepts such as state, nationalism and patriarchy.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283765
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Alfred the Great written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven major scholars of the Anglo-Saxon period consider Alfred the Great, his cultural milieu, and his achievements. With revised or revived views of the Alfredian revival, the contributors help set the agenda for future work on a most challenging period.
Author : Brenda Williams
Publisher : Jarrold Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841651309
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Kings & Queens written by Brenda Williams and published by Jarrold Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out for more Pitkin Guides on the very best of British history, heritage and travel, specially other titles in the Pitkin History of Britain series. Suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4 of the National Curriculum. More titles in the History of Britain Series
Author : William Kynan-Wilson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 178327574X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Henry of Blois written by William Kynan-Wilson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First modern study devoted to one of the twelfth-century's most enigmatic, influential and fascinating figures.
