Author : Bartholomaeus de Cotton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1108043038
This work, written in 1292 and published in 1859, is an important source of information on late-thirteenth-century English history and politics.
Author : Bartholomaeus (de Cotton)
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN :
Author : Bartholomæus (de Cotton)
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Robert K. Doe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 111894996X
This book is about weather extremes in the United Kingdom. It presents fascinating and detailed insights into tornadoes (supercell and non-supercell tornadoes, historical and contemporary case studies, frequency and spatial distributions, and unique data on extreme events); thunderstorms (epic event analysis and observing); hailstorms (intensity, distributions and frequency of high magnitude events); lightning (lightning as a hazard, impacts and injuries); ball lightning (definitions, impacts and case studies); flooding (historical and contemporary analysis, extreme rainfall and flash flooding); snowfalls (heavy snowfall days and events). It also looks at researching weather extremes, provides guidance on performing post-storm site investigations and details what is involved in severe weather forecasting. It is written by members, directors and past and present Heads of the research group the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO). With fifteen chapters thematically arranged, and data appendix including a new tornado map of the U.K., this book presents a wealth of information on meteorological extremes. This volume is aimed primarily at researchers in the field of meteorology and climatology, but will also be of interest to advanced undergraduate students taking relevant courses in this area.
Author : Peter J. Brown
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 3110719622
When high-magnitude meteorological hazards impact vulnerable human populations, disasters are the inevitable consequence. Through archaeological and historical evidence, this book investigates how these sudden and unpredictable events affected British medieval populations (AD 1000-1500). Medieval society understood disasters in a practical sense and took steps to minimise risk by constructing flood defences and reinforcing structures damaged by storms. At the same time, natural hazards were widely interpreted through a framework of religious and superstitious beliefs and a wide variety of measures were followed to secure protection against the dangers of the natural world. Disasters, therefore, were interpreted through a duality of understanding in which their occurrence could be the result of spiritual or superstitious triggers but practical solutions were a key component in mitigating their tangible impacts. In evaluating this duality, this book focuses on specific case studies and considers both their diverse historical contexts as well as their consequences for society against the backdrop of significant demographic and climatic change--as a result of the Black Death and the transition to the Little Ice Age.
Author : Benjamin Kedar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 042975762X
Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095–1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages – narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The editors are Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University, Israel; Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.
Author : William Chester Jordan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691150060
Offering a view of the history of France and England through rival institutions, Westminster Abbey and the Abbey of Saint-Denis, and the men who ruled them, this book traces social, economic, cultural, and ideological aspects of their histories, highlighting both the similarities and differences among them.
Author : Birmingham Free Libraries. Reference Department
Publisher :
Page : 1638 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Dictionary catalogs
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Wales
ISBN :
Author : David Knowles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1139430742
This is the first of two volumes, now covering the heads of religious houses in England and Wales from the tenth-century reform to the death of Edward III, 940–1377. This first volume, by the great master of monastic history, Dom David Knowles, aided by Christopher Brooke and Vera London, was published first in 1972 and was quickly recognised as a major work of reference, noted for its mastery of accurate detail. It has now been brought up to date with substantial addenda and corrigenda by Christopher Brooke. The 1972 volume covers the period 940–1216, and comprises fully documented, critical lists of monastic superiors, with succinct biographical details. It is an essential foundation for all prosopographical study of the religious history of the period; and the precise chronology that it underpins is invaluable for dating innumerable undated documents. As such, the book is a fundamental tool of medieval research.
