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Tales From the Long Twelfth Century

Author : Richard Huscroft
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187289
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Tales From the Long Twelfth Century written by Richard Huscroft and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing book tells the story of England’s great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. Whether noble and brave or flawed and fallible, each participant was struggling to survive in the face of uncontrollable forces. Princes, princesses, priests, heroes, relatives, friends, and others—some well known and others obscure—all were embroiled in the drama of historic events. Under Henry II and his sons Richard I (the Lionheart) and John, the empire rose to encompass much of the British Isles and the greater part of modern France, yet it survived a mere fifty years. Huscroft deftly weaves together the stories of individual lives to illuminate the key themes of this exciting and formative era.

The Angevin Empire

Author : John Gillingham
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Angevin Empire written by John Gillingham and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its greatest extent, the Angevin Empire stretched from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. For fifty years it was the dominant political entity and "English" and "French" history were inextricably woven together. This study looks at how these disparate territories came together, how theywere ruled, and whether they truly constituted an empire. The new edition of this groundbreaking work has been thoroughly revised and carries two new chapters.

Brittany and the Angevins

Author : J. A. Everard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426559
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Brittany and the Angevins written by J. A. Everard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rule of the Angevins in Brittany is characterized usually as opening an isolated 'Celtic' society to a wider world and imposing new and alien institutions. This study of Brittany under the Angevins, first published in 2000, demonstrates that the opposite is true: that before the advent of Henry II in 1158, the Bretons were already active participants in Anglo-Norman and French society. Indeed those Bretons with landholdings in England, Normandy and Anjou were already accustomed to Angevin rule. The book examines in detail the means by which Henry II gained sovereignty over Brittany and how it was governed subsequently by the Angevin kings of England from 1158 to 1203. In particular, it examines the extent to which the Angevins ruled Brittany directly, or delegated authority either to native dukes or royal ministers and shows that in this respect the nature of Angevin rule changed and evolved over the period.

The Reign of Richard Lionheart

Author : Ralph V. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Reign of Richard Lionheart written by Ralph V. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Reign of Richard Lionheart

Author : Ralph V Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317890426
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Reign of Richard Lionheart written by Ralph V Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions, and recent scholarship on his rival, Philip Augustus, permits examination of the formidable threat that the resurgent Capetian monarchy represented.

The History of English Affairs

Author : William (of Newburgh)
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
ISBN 13 : 0856684740
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of English Affairs by : William (of Newburgh)

Download or read book The History of English Affairs written by William (of Newburgh) and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of English Affairs, covering the years 1066-1197, was written at the close of the twelfth century and has been described as being "both in substance and in form ... the finest historical work left to us by an Englishman of the twelfth century" (The Dictionary of National Biography). The author's critical ability, gifts of acute observation, clear judgment and tolerant impartiality justify his high reputation as an original authority. Book Two covers the years 1154-1175, and incorporates the murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, the capture of the King of Scots at Alnwick, and the first subjugation of Ireland by the English. It also documents the career of Nicholas Breakspear, the only Englishman to become Pope.

The Plantagenet Empire, 1154-1224

Author : Martin Aurell
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780582784390
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book The Plantagenet Empire, 1154-1224 written by Martin Aurell and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.

The Historians of Angevin England

Author : Michael Staunton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191082643
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Historians of Angevin England written by Michael Staunton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages. Many of those who wrote history under the Angevin kings of England chose as their subject the events of their own time, and explained that they did so simply because their own times were so interesting and eventful. This was the age of Henry II and Thomas Becket, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionheart, the invasion of Ireland and the Third Crusade, and our knowledge and impression of the period is to a great extent based on these contemporary histories. The writers in question - Roger of Howden, Ralph of Diceto, William of Newburgh, Gerald of Wales, and Gervase of Canterbury, to name a few - wrote history that is not quite like anything written in England before. Remarkable for its variety, its historical and literary quality, its use of evidence and its narrative power, this has been called a 'golden age' of historical writing in England. The Historians of Angevin England, the first volume to address the subject, sets out to illustrate the historiographical achievements of this period, and to provide a sense of how these writers wrote, and their idea of history. But it is also about how medieval intellectuals thought and wrote about a range of topics: the rise and fall of kings, victory and defeat in battle, church and government, and attitudes to women, heretics, and foreigners.

Henry II

Author : Wilfred Lewis Warren
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520022829
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Henry II written by Wilfred Lewis Warren and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgements ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself, an eloquent and impressive achievement.

Charles I of Anjou

Author : Jean Dunbabin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317890787
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Charles I of Anjou written by Jean Dunbabin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles I of Anjou (1225-85), brother of St Louis, was one of the most controversial figures of thirteenth-century Europe. A royal adventurer, who carved out a huge Mediterranean power block, as ruler of Provence, Jerusalem and the kingdom of Naples as well as Anjou, he changed for good the political configuration of the Mediterranean world - even though his ambitions were fatally undermined by the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers. Jean Dunbabin's study - the first in English for 40 years - reassesses Charles's extraordinary career, his pivotal role in the crusades and in military reform, trading, diplomacy, learning and the arts, and finds a more remarkable figure than the ruthless thug of conventional historiography.

England under the Norman and Angevin Kings

Author : Robert Bartlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192547372
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book England under the Norman and Angevin Kings written by Robert Bartlett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. This was a period in which the ruling dynasty and military aristocracy were deeply enmeshed with the politics and culture of France. Professor Bartlett describes their conflicts, and their preoccupations - the sense of honour, the role of violence, and the glitter of tournament, heraldry, and Arthurian romance. He explores the mechanics of government; assesses the role of the Church at a time of radical developments in religious life and organization; and investigates the peasant economy, the foundation of this society, and the growing urban and commercial activity. There are colourful details of the everyday life of ordinary men and women, with their views on the past, on sexuality, on animals, on death, the undead, and the occult. The result is a fascinating and comprehensive portrayal of a period which begins with conquest and ends in assimilation.

Time and Chance

Author : Sharon Kay Penman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101157410
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Time and Chance written by Sharon Kay Penman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to Sharon Kay Penman's acclaimed novel When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time and Chance recounts the tempestuous marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II in a magnificent story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal. He was nineteen when they married, she eleven years his senior, newly divorced from the King of France. She was beautiful, headstrong, intelligent, and rich. It was said he was Fortune's favorite, but he said a man makes his own luck. Within two years, Henry had made his, winning the throne of England and exercising extraordinary statecraft skills to control his unruly barons, expand his own powers, and restore peace to a land long torn by banditry and bloodshed. Only in one instance did Henry err: Elevating his good friend and confidant Thomas Becket to be Archbishop of Canterbury, he thought to gain control over the Church itself. But the once worldly Becket suddenly discovered God, and their alliance withered in the heat of his newfound zeal. What Becket saw as a holy mission-to protect the Church against State encroachments-Henry saw as arrant betrayal, and they were launched inevitably on the road to murder. Rich in character and color, true to the historical details, sensitive to the complex emotions of these men and women, Time and Chance recreates their story with all the drama, pain, and passion of the moment.

Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine

Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445671573
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine written by Matthew Lewis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful medieval couple who formed an empire beyond England, and whose children included Richard the Lionheart and King John.

Henry the Young King, 1155-1183

Author : Matthew Strickland
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300219555
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Henry the Young King, 1155-1183 written by Matthew Strickland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father’s lifetime. Crowned at fifteen to secure an undisputed succession, Henry played a central role in the politics of Henry II’s great empire and was hailed as the embodiment of chivalry. Yet, consistently denied direct rule, the Young King was provoked first into heading a major rebellion against his father, then to waging a bitter war against his brother Richard for control of Aquitaine, dying before reaching the age of thirty having never assumed actual power. In this remarkable history, Matthew Strickland provides a richly colored portrait of an all-but-forgotten royal figure tutored by Thomas Becket, trained in arms by the great knight William Marshal, and incited to rebellion by his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, while using his career to explore the nature of kingship, succession, dynastic politics, and rebellion in twelfth-century England and France.

Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings

Author : Amy Kelly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674242548
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings written by Amy Kelly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1950 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Queen Eleanor which describes her dramatic life as a queen, her marriages, and her contributions to that period.

The Angevin Empire

Author : Sir James Henry Ramsay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angevin Empire written by Sir James Henry Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philip Augustus

Author : Jim Bradbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317899024
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Philip Augustus written by Jim Bradbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study in English of the reign of Philip Augustus who ruled France from 1180 - 1223. Outshone for posterity, by his flamboyant contemporaries, the Angevin family of Henry II and his feuding sons, Philip was in fact far more successful than any of them, astutely playing them off against each other and recovering for the French crown their vast estates in Northern France including Normandy itself. As well as reasserting the power of the Capetian monarchy, he was also leader of the Third Crusade. Drawing together all the threads in the life of one of France's most forceful rulers, this new study offers a study of the nature of monarchy in late medieval Europe as well as an insight into a subtle and secretive personality.