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The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign

Author : Edmund King
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019159072X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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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.

The anarchy of King Stephen's reign

Author : Edmund King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The anarchy of King Stephen's reign written by Edmund King and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

King Stephen's Reign (1135-1154)

Author : Paul Dalton
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843833611
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (336 download)

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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.

Stephen (Penguin Monarchs)

Author : Carl Watkins
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141977159
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Stephen (Penguin Monarchs) written by Carl Watkins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman monarchy, that without clear rules ordering succession, conflict between members of William the Conqueror's family were inevitable. But there was another problem, too: Stephen himself. With the nobility of England and Normandy anxious about the prospect of a world without the tough love of the old king Henry I, Stephen styled himself a political panacea, promising strength without oppression. As external threats and internal resistance to his rule accumulated, it was a promise he was unable to keep. Unable to transcend his flawed claim to the throne, and to make the transition from nobleman to king, Stephen's actions betrayed uneasiness in his role, his royal voice never quite ringing true. The resulting violence that spread throughout England was not, or not only, the work of bloodthirsty men on the make. As Watkins shows in this resonant new portrait, it arose because great men struggled to navigate a new and turbulent kind of politics that arose when the king was in eclipse.

The Reign of King Stephen

Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317892976
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Reign of King Stephen written by David Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.

King Stephen

Author : Donald Matthew
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852852726
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book King Stephen written by Donald Matthew and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of King Stephen (1135-54) has usually been seen as uniquely disasterous in the history of the medieval England -- a counrty riven by a civil war between Stephen and his first cousin, the Empress Matilda, and by an anarchy during which overmighty barons laid waste the country and 'Christ and his saints slept'. Donald Matthew challenges this picture. By questioning such melodramatic assumptions, and by looking clearly at what can and cannot be known about Stephen, he brings new light to both the king and his reign. He shows that much of what has been written about Stephen has been based on the selective use of the testimony of hostile witnesses, and has been shot through by wishful thinking or by the political or historical prejudices of the day. King Stephen is an important, well-written and timely reinterpretation of the crisis of Norman government.

The Crisis of the Twelfth Century

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169764
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the Twelfth Century written by Thomas N. Bisson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose. Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace instead of ruling it. Yet, it was not so much the oppressed people as their tormentors who were in crisis. The Crisis of the Twelfth Century suggests what these violent people—and the outcries they provoked—contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms, principalities, and towns.

King Stephen

Author : Ralph Henry Carless Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317900529
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book King Stephen written by Ralph Henry Carless Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-known text, the standard account of the subject, is essential reading for students and scholars of the Norman period from undergraduate level upwards, and was hailed on first publication as: " a landmark in twelfth-century studies." Written in the form of a biography this completely revised and updated edition discusses the significant social, governmental and religious developments as they arose in the course of the narrative.

King Stephen

Author : Edmund King
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300170106
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book King Stephen written by Edmund King and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths and weaknesses of the monarch. Keeping Stephen at the forefront of his account, the author also chronicles the activities of key family members and associates whose loyal support sustained Stephen's kingship. In 1135 the popular Stephen was elected king against the claims of the empress Matilda and her sons. But by 1153, Stephen had lost control over Normandy and other important regions, England had lost prestige, and the weakened king was forced to cede his family's right to succession. A rich narrative covering the drama of a tumultuous reign, this book focuses well-deserved attention on a king who lost control of his destiny.

King Stephen and The Anarchy

Author : Chris Peers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473863694
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book King Stephen and The Anarchy written by Chris Peers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed kingdoms of medieval Europe. But perhaps the impact of the conflict has been overstated, and its effect on the common people across the country is hard to judge. That is why Chris Peerss fresh study of this fascinating and controversial era is of such value. He describes each phase of this civil war, in particular the castles and sieges that dominated strategic thinking, and he sets the fighting in the context of the changing tactics and military systems of the twelfth century. His fresh account of this pivotal episode in the medieval history of England will be absorbing reading anyone who is keen to gain an insight into this period of English history and has a special interest in the practice of medieval warfare.

Conquest, Anarchy and Lordship

Author : Paul Dalton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524643
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Conquest, Anarchy and Lordship written by Paul Dalton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1994, studies aristocratic politics and government in Yorkshire in the century after 1066.

The Anarchy

Author : Oliver Hamilton Creighton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781382425
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Anarchy written by Oliver Hamilton Creighton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever archaeologically based study of the turbulent period of English history often known as the 'Anarchy' of King Stephen's reign in the mid-twelfth century, covering battlefields and conflict landscapes, arms, armour and material culture, fortifications and the church.

The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154

Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 written by David Crouch and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a biography of King Stephen (1134-54), the last Norman monarch whose reign was key in English history as well as the subject of much controversial assessment.

Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World

Author : Paul Dalton
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843836203
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World written by Paul Dalton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true importance of cathedrals during the Anglo-Norman period is here brought out, through an examination of the most important aspects of their history. Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical (and physical) landscape of the British Isles and Normandy in the middle ages; yet, in comparison with the history of monasteries, theirs has received significantly less attention. This volume helps to redress the balance by examining major themes in their development between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. These include the composition, life, corporate identity and memory of cathedral communities; the relationships, sometimes supportive, sometimes conflicting, that they had with kings (e.g. King John), aristocracies, and neighbouring urban and religious communities; the importance of cathedrals as centres of lordship and patronage; their role in promoting and utilizing saints' cults (e.g. that of St Thomas Becket); episcopal relations; and the involvement of cathedrals in religious and political conflicts, and in the settlement of disputes. A critical introduction locates medieval cathedrals in space and time, and against a backdrop of wider ecclesiastical change in the period. Contributors: Paul Dalton, Charles Insley, Louise J. Wilkinson, Ann Williams, C.P. Lewis, RichardAllen, John Reuben Davies, Thomas Roche, Stephen Marritt, Michael Staunton, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Paul Webster, Nicholas Vincent

The Haskins Society Journal 13

Author : Stephen Morillo
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830504
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Haskins Society Journal 13 written by Stephen Morillo and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The latest volume presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its ten papers includes articles on the origins of the Cistercian order, the coronationof Mathilda of Flanders, the rebel Owain ap Cadwgan, miracle stories and the anarchy of Stephen's reign, miracles at Sempringham, family and inheritance in the twelfth century, and contemporary views of secular clergy. Contributors: CONSTANCE BERMAN, LAURA GATHAGAN, DAVID CROUCH, CLAIRE DE TRAFFORD, K.L. MAUND, EDMUND KING, RICHARD SHERMAN, HUGH THOMAS, MARYLOU RUUD, JOHN COTTS, RALPH TURNER.

The Reign of Stephen, 1135-54

Author : Henry Alfred Cronne
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Reign of Stephen, 1135-54 written by Henry Alfred Cronne and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anglo-Norman Studies XXIV

Author : John Gillingham
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851158860
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Norman Studies XXIV written by John Gillingham and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual publication covers not only matters relating to pre- and post-Conquest England and France, but also the activities and influences of the Normans on the wider European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern stage.