Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to medieval England surveying the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.
Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192893246
A comprehensive introduction to medieval England surveying the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.
Author : George Holmes
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192854353
'The individual chapters are scholarly and up to the minute, without loss of accessibility or pace. The illustrations are many, apposite and refreshingly unhackneyed.' -Times Literary Supplement
Author : Christopher Cannon
Publisher : Polity
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0745624413
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.
Author : P. H. Sawyer
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192854346
'the volume will indeed be a treasury for pictorial sources, and the illustrations to more off-the-beaten-track chapters (especially Noonan's, on European Russia) are correspondingly unusual.' -Guy Halsall, War in History, 8, 3, 2001'the truest picture yet of the Vikings and their age.' -Publishing News
Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0195103599
Beginning with the merger of Roman, Christian, and Germanic cultures, this history of the Middle Ages covers a vast array of subjects, including Byzantium and the Islamic world, feudalism, the Crusades, the Magna Carta, and much more. Author Barbara A. Hanawalt uses a lively and anecdotal writing style to breathe life into earlier times. 35 color and 120 b & w illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : James Raven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198702981
In 14 original essays, this book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present
Author : Peter Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199595488
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation is the story of one of the truly epochal events in world history -- and how it helped create the world we live in today
Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192854421
A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198205029
A thorough and well-illustrated history with eight long essays by leading scholars which cover the history and culture of England, rather than the British Isles, from the 5th to the 15th century. Contents: Medieval England - Identity, Politics and Society ( Nigel Saul ); Anglo-Saxon England ( Janet L Nelson ); Conquered England ( George Garnett ); Late Medieval England 1215-1485 ( Chris Given-Wilson ); Economy and Society ( Christopher Dyer ); Piety, Religion and the Church ( Henrietta Leyser ); The Visual Arts ( Nicola Coldstream ); Language and Literature ( Derek Pearsall ).
Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0191067199
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can ́t attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.