Author : Anthony Emery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521581318
The second volume of a massive, illustrated survey of the greater houses of medieval England and Wales, first published in 1996.
Author : Brendan Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108625258
The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in The Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original interpretations in a fresh and accessible manner. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. At each turn the question is asked: to what extent were these developments unique to Ireland? The openness of Ireland to outside influences, and its capacity to influence the world beyond its shores, are recurring themes. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe.
Author : Colm McNamee
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2012-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0857904957
The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part of the fourteenth century, England's war with Robert the Bruce profoundly affected the whole of the British Isles. Scottish raiders struck deep into the heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire; Robert's younger brother, Edward Bruce, was proclaimed King of Ireland and came close to subduing the country; the Isle of Man was captured and a Welsh sea-port was raided; and in the North Sea Scots allied with German and Flemish pirates to cripple England's vital wool trade and disrupt its war effort. Packed with detail and written with a strong and involving narrative thread, this is the first book to link up the various theatres of war and discuss the effect of the wars of the Bruces outside Scotland.
Author : Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Constitutional history
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Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Author : Clare Downham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 110854794X
Medieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse place medieval Ireland was. Starting in the fifth century, when St Patrick arrived on the island, and ending in the fifteenth century, with the efforts of the English government to defend the lands which it ruled directly around Dublin by building great ditches, this up-to-date and accessible survey charts the internal changes in the region. Chapters dispute the idea of an archaic society in a wide-range of areas, with a particular focus on land-use, economy, society, religion, politics and culture. This concise and accessible overview offers a fresh perspective on Ireland in the Middle Ages and overthrows many enduring stereotypes.
Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551119102
Depicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters’ fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in English theatre. The play charts the tragic rise and fall of the medieval English monarch Edward the Second, his favourite Piers Gaveston, and their ambitious opponents Queen Isabella and Mortimer Jr., and is an important cultural, as well as dramatic, document of the early modern period. This modernized and fully annotated Broadview Edition is prefaced by a critical but student-oriented introduction and followed by ample appendix material, including extended selections from Marlowe’s historical sources, texts bearing on the play’s complex sexual and political dynamics, and excerpts from contemporary poet Michael Drayton’s epic rendition of Edward the Second’s reign.
Author : Richard Harold St. Maur
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Thomas Frederick Tout
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1905
Category : History
ISBN :
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Samuel Bagshaw
Publisher :
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Shropshire (England)
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