Author : A. D. Crake
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A. D. Crake's novel, 'Brian Fitz-Count', tells the story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey, two historic landmarks in a country dear to the author. Fitz-Count, a real person in this historical fiction novel, is portrayed with all the faults of most Norman barons in this medieval tale, which features realistic depictions of the dungeons of the Castle and the religious system of the day.
Author : Richard Britnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521522731
A series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.
Author : Donald Matthew
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781852852726
The reign of King Stephen (1135-54) has usually been seen as uniquely disasterous in the history of the medieval England -- a counrty riven by a civil war between Stephen and his first cousin, the Empress Matilda, and by an anarchy during which overmighty barons laid waste the country and 'Christ and his saints slept'. Donald Matthew challenges this picture. By questioning such melodramatic assumptions, and by looking clearly at what can and cannot be known about Stephen, he brings new light to both the king and his reign. He shows that much of what has been written about Stephen has been based on the selective use of the testimony of hostile witnesses, and has been shot through by wishful thinking or by the political or historical prejudices of the day. King Stephen is an important, well-written and timely reinterpretation of the crisis of Norman government.
Author : Thomas (of Marlborough, Abbot of Evesham)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198204800
The 'Evesham History' is one of the last important 13th-century texts to be translated.
Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317892968
At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.
Author : Robert B. Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198797818
The Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (1088-1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and bastard eldest son of King Henry I of England. Robert could not succeed his father, but played a key role in the Anarchy against King Stephen, and had a lasting impact on British cultural and political history.
Author : Stephen Morillo
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843830504
Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The latest volume presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its ten papers includes articles on the origins of the Cistercian order, the coronationof Mathilda of Flanders, the rebel Owain ap Cadwgan, miracle stories and the anarchy of Stephen's reign, miracles at Sempringham, family and inheritance in the twelfth century, and contemporary views of secular clergy. Contributors: CONSTANCE BERMAN, LAURA GATHAGAN, DAVID CROUCH, CLAIRE DE TRAFFORD, K.L. MAUND, EDMUND KING, RICHARD SHERMAN, HUGH THOMAS, MARYLOU RUUD, JOHN COTTS, RALPH TURNER.
Author : Paul Dalton
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843833611
Expert coverage and new assessments of the reign of King Stephen, set in social, political and European context.
Author : White Kennett
Publisher :
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 1818
Category : Alchester (England)
ISBN :
Author : Edmund King
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300170106
This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths and weaknesses of the monarch. Keeping Stephen at the forefront of his account, the author also chronicles the activities of key family members and associates whose loyal support sustained Stephen's kingship. In 1135 the popular Stephen was elected king against the claims of the empress Matilda and her sons. But by 1153, Stephen had lost control over Normandy and other important regions, England had lost prestige, and the weakened king was forced to cede his family's right to succession. A rich narrative covering the drama of a tumultuous reign, this book focuses well-deserved attention on a king who lost control of his destiny.
