Author : Christopher Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107089905
A detailed comparative study of how kings governed late-medieval France and England, analysing the multiple mechanisms of royal power.
Author : Christopher David Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 9781316316917
How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This volume, the product of a ten-year international project, brings together specialists in late medieval England and France to explore the multiple mechanisms by which monarchs exercised their power in the final centuries of the Middle Ages. Collaborative chapters, mostly co-written by experts on each kingdom, cover topics ranging from courts, military networks and public finance; office, justice and the men of the church; to political representation, petitioning, cultural conceptions of political society; and the role of those excluded from formal involvement in politics. The result is a richly detailed and innovative comparison of the nature of government and political life, seen from the point of view of how the king ruled his kingdom, but bringing to bear the methods of social, cultural and economic history to understand the underlying armature of royal power.
Author : C. T. Allmand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1988-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521319232
A comparative study of how the societies of late medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them from political, military, social and economic perspectives.
Author : John Watts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521792320
This major survey of political life in late medieval Europe provides a framework for understanding the developments that shaped this turbulent period. Rather than emphasising crisis, decline, disorder or the birth of the modern state, this account centres on the mixed results of political and governmental growth across the continent. The age of the Hundred Years War, schism and revolt was also a time of rapid growth in jurisdiction, taxation and representation, of spreading literacy and evolving political technique. This mixture of state formation and political convulsion lay at the heart of the 'making of polities'. Offering a full introduction to political events and processes from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth, this book combines a broad, comparative account with discussion of individual regions and states, including eastern and northern Europe alongside the more familiar west and south.
Author : Emily Joan Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838375
The first comparative study of royal childhood and child kingship, revealing the fundamental role they played in medieval rulership.
Author : Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 113487894X
The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between Imperial Rome and the Reformation. Drawing together an international group of leading scholars, chapters consider how uprisings worked, why they happened, whom they implicated, what they meant to contemporaries, and how we might understand them now. This collection builds upon new approaches to political history and communication, and provides new insights into revolt as integral to medieval political life. Drawing upon research from the social sciences and literary theory, the essays use revolts and their sources to explore questions of meaning and communication, identity and mobilization, the use of violence and the construction of power. The authors emphasize historical actors’ agency, but argue that access to these actors and their actions is mediated and often obscured by the texts that report them. Supported by an introduction and conclusion which survey the previous historiography of medieval revolt and envisage future directions in the field, The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt will be an essential reference for students and scholars of medieval political history.
Author : Malcolm Vale
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300160348
More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects’ welfare Shakespeare’s centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king’s reputation as a warmongering monarch, a perception that has persisted ever since. But in this exciting, thoroughly researched volume a different view of Henry emerges: a multidimensional ruler of great piety, a hands-on governor who introduced a radically new conception of England’s European role in secular and ecclesiastical affairs, a composer of music, an art patron, and a dutiful king who fully appreciated his obligations toward those he ruled. Historian Malcolm Vale draws on extensive primary archival evidence that includes many documents annotated or endorsed in Henry’s own hand. Focusing on a series of themes—the interaction between king and church, the rise of the English language as a medium of government and politics, the role of ceremony in Henry’s kingship, and more—Vale revises understandings of Henry V and his conduct of the everyday affairs of England, Normandy, and the kingdom of France.
Author : Christopher Fletcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1000397033
Everyday Political Objects examines a series of historical case studies across a very broad timescale, using objects as a means to develop different approaches to understanding politics where both internal and external definitions of the political prove inadequate. Materiality and objects have gradually made their way into the historian’s toolbox in recent years, but the distinctive contribution that a set of methods developed for the study of objects can make to our understanding of politics has yet to be explored. This book shows how everyday objects play a certain role in politics, which is specific to material things. It provides case studies which re-orientate the view of the political in a way that is distinct from, but complementary to, the study of political institutions, the social history of politics and the analysis of discourse. Each chapter shows, in a distinctive and innovative way, how historians might change their approach to politics by incorporating objects into their methodology. Analysing case studies from France, the Congo, Burkina Faso, Romania and Britain between the early Middle Ages and the present day makes this study the perfect tool for students and scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, political science, anthropology and archaeology. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003147428
Author : Joaquim Albareda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0429813325
What kind of political representation existed in the Ancien Régime? Which social sectors were given a voice, and how were they represented in the institutions? These are some of the issues addressed by the authors of this book from different institutional angles (monarchies and republics; parliaments and municipalities), from various European territories and finally from a connected and comparative perspective. The aim is twofold: analyse the different mechanisms of political representation before Liberalism, their strengths and limitations; value the processes of oligarchisation and the possible mismatch between a libertarian model and a reality which was far from its idealised image.
Author : Janet Burton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1783270527
Fruits of the most recent research into the "long" thirteenth century.
