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Author : Peter Hampson Ditchfield
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Total Pages : 430 pages
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Author : Norman Davis
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ISBN 13 : 9780197224236
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: No distinctive title written by Norman Davis and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Kirby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573948
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book The Plumpton Letters and Papers written by Joan Kirby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Royal Historical Society's Camden Fifth Series is a comprehensive edition of the only surviving northern medieval letter collection.
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Total Pages : 1766 pages
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Author : Frances Gies
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062016687
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book Life in a Medieval Village written by Frances Gies and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made communal living possible, explain what domestic life was like for serf and lord alike, and describe the central role of the church in maintaining social harmony. Though the main focus is on Elton, c. 1300, the Gieses supply enlightening historical context on the origin, development, and decline of the European village, itself an invention of the Middle Ages. Meticulously researched, Life in a Medieval Village is a remarkable account that illustrates the captivating world of the Middle Ages and demonstrates what it was like to live during a fascinating—and often misunderstood—era.
Author : Susan Rose
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 178570737X
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book The Wealth of England written by Susan Rose and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wool trade was undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the British economy throughout the medieval period - even the seat occupied by the speaker of the House of lords rests on a woolsack. In The Wealth of England Susan Rose brings together the social, economic and political strands in the development of the wool trade and show how and why it became so important. The author looks at the lives of prominent wool-men; gentry who based their wealth on producing this commodity like the Stonors in the Chilterns, canny middlemen who rose to prominence in the City of London like Nicholas Brembre and Richard (Dick) Whittington, and men who acquired wealth and influence like William de la Pole of Hull. She examines how the wealth made by these and other wool-men transformed the appearance of the leading centres of the trade with magnificent churches and other buildings. The export of wool also gave England links with Italian trading cities at the very time that the Renaissance was transforming cultural life. The complex operation of the trade is also explained with the role of the Staple at Calais to the fore leading to a discussion on the way the policy of English kings, especially in the fourteenth century, was heavily influenced by trade in this one commodity. No other book has treated this subject holistically with its influence on the course of English history made plain. Susan Rose presents a fascinating new exposition on the role of the wool trade in the economy and political history of medieval England. She shows how this simple product created wealth and status among men of hugely varying backgrounds, transformed market towns both economically and in architectural terms and contributed to fundamental social and cultural changes through trading links with Italy and other European countries at the height of the Renaissance
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Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 153780426X
Total Pages : 150 pages
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Author : Henry Stanley Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge : University Press
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Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book The Pastons and Their England written by Henry Stanley Bennett and published by Cambridge : University Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography and collation of editions and original letters.
Author : Tim Thornton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526114097
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Author : Colin Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521520270
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192836403
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Publisher : Swedenborg Press
ISBN 13 : 9781447479147
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541244
Total Pages : 527 pages
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ISBN 13 : 9781783747115
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book Make We Merry More and Less written by Douglas Gray and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature (2015), Make We Merry More and Less is a comprehensive anthology of popular medieval literature from the twelfth century onwards. Uniquely, the book is divided by genre, allowing readers to make connections between texts usually presented individually. This anthology offers a fruitful exploration of the boundary between literary and popular culture, and showcases an impressive breadth of literature, including songs, drama, and ballads. Familiar texts such as the visions of Margery Kempe and the Paston family letters are featured alongside lesser-known works, often oral. This striking diversity extends to the language: the anthology includes Scottish literature and original translations of Latin and French texts. The illuminating introduction offers essential information that will enhance the reader's enjoyment of the chosen texts. Each of the chapters is accompanied by a clear summary explaining the particular delights of the literature selected and the rationale behind the choices made. An invaluable resource to gain an in-depth understanding of the culture of the period, this is essential reading for any student or scholar of medieval English literature, and for anyone interested in folklore or popular material of the time. The book was left unfinished at Gray's death; it is here edited by Jane Bliss.
