Book Description
Spans the period 1272-1485 and includes biographies of 200 individuals from all walks of life.
Author : Michael Hicks
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811716383
Spans the period 1272-1485 and includes biographies of 200 individuals from all walks of life.
Author : Michael A. Hicks
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781558621350
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780856831256
Author : Ronald H. Fritze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313011362
Providing the chronological setting for many of Shakespeare's plays, various swashbuckling novels from Sir Walter Scott's to Robert Louis Stevenson's, and such Hollywood films as Braveheart, late Medieval England is superficially well known. Yet its true complexity remains elusive, locked in the covers of specialized monographs and journal articles. In over 300 entries written by 80 scholars, this book makes the factual information and historical interpretations of the era readily available. Covering political, military, religious, and constitutional subjects as well as social and economic topics, the volume is easy to use, comprehensive, and authoritative. It provides a useful resource for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and educated laymen. Rightly characterized as an age of crisis, the 14th century saw the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism of the Western Church. All placed great stresses on English society, aggravating old problems and creating new ones. In the late Middle Ages, parliament became an important element in English government; Cambridge and Oxford universities attained European-wide reputations; and general literacy increased. The Church remained a paramount religious, political, and social institution, but its independence and intellectual monopoly slipped. The entries in this book synthesize recent scholarship on these and other historical events. While emphasizing political, religious, constitutional and military topics, the book also provides brief introductions to social, economic, cultural, and intellectual topics. It is a valuable guide for those wishing to understand this complex, tumultuous, and until recently, poorly understood era.
Author : Ronald H. Fritze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : History
ISBN :
Providing the chronological setting for many of Shakespeare's plays, various swashbuckling novels from Sir Walter Scott's to Robert Louis Stevenson's, and such Hollywood films as Braveheart, late Medieval England is superficially well known. Yet its true complexity remains elusive, locked in the covers of specialized monographs and journal articles. In over 300 entries written by 80 scholars, this book makes the factual information and historical interpretations of the era readily available. Covering political, military, religious, and constitutional subjects as well as social and economic topics, the volume is easy to use, comprehensive, and authoritative. It provides a useful resource for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and educated laymen. Rightly characterized as an age of crisis, the 14th century saw the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism of the Western Church. All placed great stresses on English society, aggravating old problems and creating new ones. In the late Middle Ages, parliament became an important element in English government; Cambridge and Oxford universities attained European-wide reputations; and general literacy increased. The Church remained a paramount religious, political, and social institution, but its independence and intellectual monopoly slipped. The entries in this book synthesize recent scholarship on these and other historical events. While emphasizing political, religious, constitutional and military topics, the book also provides brief introductions to social, economic, cultural, and intellectual topics. It is a valuable guide for those wishing to understand this complex, tumultuous, and until recently, poorly understood era.
Author : George Holmes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393003635
English life in the thirteenth century was characterized by: a single Christian Church owing allegiance to Rome and living on the revenues of its estates; kingship with difficulty kept intact in the face of scheming magnates jealous of their privileges; a countryside divided into thousands of small estates, tilled by peasants--some of them serfs--and owned by lords with considerable power over their tenants; armies of knights fighting on horseback; Gothic cathedrals; monasteries; castles; town gilds. Professor Holmes describes this medieval society and its evolution, after the Black Death, into a somewhat different kind of society in the late fifteenth century. He argues that the population decrease as a result of the plague, beginning in 1349, brought about fundamental transformations: village life changed, serfdom disappeared, the great estates became less important, industry grew, and the commodities and directions of trade changed.
Author : Christopher Tyerman
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn Limited
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780856831324
Part of an eight-volume series that features the men and women of British history from Roman times to the end of Queen Victoria's reign. The biographical essays are arranged in a broadly chronological sequence, and the subjects include artists, explorers, scientists and eccentrics.
Author : Christopher Tyerman
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811716376
A collective biography of English royalty, writers, politicians and artists of the early medieval period from 1066-1272.
Author : DeLloyd J. Guth
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521208772
Author : Jonathan Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1108210236
This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to deal with these forms of legal corruption. Maintenance, in the sense of intermeddling in another person's litigation, was a source of repeated complaint in medieval England. This book reveals for the first time what actually transpired in the resultant litigation. Extensive study of the primary sources shows that the statutes prohibiting maintenance did not achieve their objectives because legal proceedings were rarely brought against those targeted by the statutes: the great and the powerful. Illegal maintenance was less extensive than frequently asserted because medieval judges recognized a number of valid justifications for intermeddling in litigation. Further, the book casts doubt on the effectiveness of the statutory regulation of livery. This is a treasure trove for legal historians, literature scholars, lawyers, and academic libraries.