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Book Crown and Nobility  1272 1461

Download or read book Crown and Nobility 1272 1461 written by Anthony Tuck and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crown and Nobility

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Tuck
  • Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
  • Release : 1999-12-16
  • ISBN : 9780631214618
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Crown and Nobility written by Anthony Tuck and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-12-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crown and Nobility traces the development of the relationship between kings and nobles in late medieval England. It shows how the differing abilities and personalities of the late medieval English kings powerfully affected their relationship with the nobility.

Book Who s who in Late Medieval England  1272 1485

Download or read book Who s who in Late Medieval England 1272 1485 written by Michael Hicks and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spans the period 1272-1485 and includes biographies of 200 individuals from all walks of life.

Book Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England

Download or read book Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England written by Andrew M. Spencer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses the relationship between Edward I and his earls, and the role of English nobility in thirteenth-century governance.

Book Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England  1272 1485

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England 1272 1485 written by Ronald H. Fritze and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Royal Regulation of Loans and Sales in Medieval England

Download or read book Royal Regulation of Loans and Sales in Medieval England written by Gwen Seabourne and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial legislation demonstrates the advancing role of law in the later middle ages.

Book The Royal Minorities of Medieval and Early Modern England

Download or read book The Royal Minorities of Medieval and Early Modern England written by Charles Beem and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study covers the history of the underage male kings of England, examining their historical relationship to one another and assessing their collective impact on the political and constitutional development of England.

Book Feudalism  Monarchies  and Nobility

Download or read book Feudalism Monarchies and Nobility written by Jeanne Nagle and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of pageantry associated with kings, queens, and the upper class have long captivated readers of all ages. The reality behind how these entities have operated within set governmental systems has not always been as glamorous as these tales, but it retains an allure of its own nonetheless. This book provides a firm grounding in the historic political, social, and economic implications of rule by monarchy, including the prevalence of the feudal system in medieval Europe. Modern monarchies and the role of the aristocracy in every age are also detailed.

Book Inscribing the Hundred Years  War in French and English Cultures

Download or read book Inscribing the Hundred Years War in French and English Cultures written by Mich.) International Congress on Medieval Studies 1994 (Kalamazoo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact of the Hundred Years' War on French and English literature of the period, revealing the ways in which history influences literature and literature intervenes in history.

Book Edward III and the English Peerage

Download or read book Edward III and the English Peerage written by James Bothwell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Edward III's astute use of patronage to reposition the monarchy after the vicissitudes of his father's reign and his own problematic minority.

Book Fictions of Advice

Download or read book Fictions of Advice written by Judith Ferster and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses to—as well as attempts to manage—the risks implicit in advising a king. Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to engage political conflicts, the mirrors for princes have been taken for dull and conventionalized testimonies to the medieval taste for platitude. Judith Ferster maintains that advice was at the center of one of the important political debates in the late Middle Ages: how to constrain the king and allow for his subjects' participation. Fictions of Advice rereads the English mirrors for princes to show how their moralizing was often highly topical and even subversive. Although overtly deferential to the rulers they address, the mirrors' authors were surprisingly capable of criticism and opposition. In putting the texts back into their historical contexts, Ferster reveals the vital cultural and political function they fulfilled in their societies.

Book A Book of Middle English

Download or read book A Book of Middle English written by J. A. Burrow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects. Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'. Bibliographic references have been updated throughout. Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.

Book Power and Identity in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Power and Identity in the Middle Ages written by Huw Pryce and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging collection of thought-provoking essays examining power struggles and political identities in medieval Britain, featuring work from leading historians in the field. Celebrating the work of the late Rees Davies - a towering figure in the historiography of this period - the book focuses on his interests, opening up new perspectives on the political, social, and cultural history of the middle ages.

Book Medieval Britain  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book Medieval Britain A Very Short Introduction written by John Gillingham and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of identity in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Yet this was an age, too, of growing definition of Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural tradition. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Book Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe written by Cesare Cuttica and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.

Book Locality and Polity

Download or read book Locality and Polity written by Christine Carpenter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-28 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is intended as a contribution to the history of England as a whole in the fifteenth century and to the study of the long-term development of the English landed classes and the English constitution.

Book The Fourteenth century Sheriff

Download or read book The Fourteenth century Sheriff written by Richard Gorski and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the careers of over 1200 sheriffs appointed in England during the fourteenth century.