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Book From Fief to Indenture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bryce Dale Lyon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-03-17
  • ISBN : 9781258244149
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book From Fief to Indenture written by Bryce Dale Lyon and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Fief to Intendure

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  • Author : Bryce Dale Lyon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1957
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book From Fief to Intendure written by Bryce Dale Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Using Concepts in Medieval History

Download or read book Using Concepts in Medieval History written by Jackson W. Armstrong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is ‘feudalism’, whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R. Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal article on the topic. The volume’s contributors offer a series of case studies of other concepts – 'colony', 'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic', 'networks' and 'politics' – that have been influential, particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between historical ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their dialogue.

Book Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years

Download or read book Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years written by Allen J. Matusow and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thorough and lively study, Allen Matusow, tracing the history of government policy on food and agriculture during the Truman administration, relates the process by which the United States government overcame disharmony among its own politicians and farmers to save Europe from famine in the years immediately following World War II. The Department of Agriculture, which had asserted that "food will win the war and write the peace," was often reluctant to believe its own slogan. Elucidating the policies involved in postwar planning for both foreign trade and domestic farm production, Matusow shows how the memorable fear of huge surpluses created by the Depression in the 1930s had affected the attitudes of government officials toward agricultural planning and production from 1945 to 1952. Interpreting the origins and defeat of the Brannan Plan, the author finds remnants of that policy evident in the current adoption of production payments. Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years offers new insight into the creative agricultural policy which emerged, from hesitant beginnings, in Truman's second term.

Book The High Middle Ages in England 1154 1377

Download or read book The High Middle Ages in England 1154 1377 written by Bertie Wilkinson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1978-06-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All aspects of England in the High Middle Ages are covered, including sections on social, economic, religious, military, intellectual and art history, as well as on political and constitutional history."--Publisher description.

Book Social Chaucer

Download or read book Social Chaucer written by Paul Strohm and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyzes the effect of Chaucer's poetry on his contemporary readers, examining how he and his audience understood their society and how this is reflected in the works. This book provides a fuller understanding of Chaucer's world and the social implications of literary styles and form.

Book The Government of Philip Augustus

Download or read book The Government of Philip Augustus written by John W. Baldwin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth century the French kings won ascendancy over France, while France achieved political and cultural supremacy over western Europe. Based on French sources, this meticulously documented study provides an account of how Philip Augustus (1179-1223) brought about this transformation of royal power.

Book The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy

Download or read book The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy written by Andrew Cowell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages (10th-12th centuries) among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and violent taking, inextricably linked elements of the same basic symbolic economy. These performative practices cannot be understood without reference to a concept of the sacred, which anchored and governed the performances, providing the goal and rationale of social and military action. After focussing on anthropological theory, social history, and chronicles, the author turns to the "literary" persona of the hero as seen in the epic. He argues that the hero was specifically a narrative touchstone used for reflection on the nature and limits of aggressive identity formation among the medieval warrior elite; the hero can be seen, from a theoretical perspective, as a "supplement" to his own society, who both perfectly incarnated its values but also, in attaining full integrity, short-circuited the very mechanisms of identity formation and reciprocity which undergirded the society. The book shows that the relationship between warriors, heroes, and their opponents (especially Saracens) must be understood as a complex, tri-partite structure - not a simple binary opposition - in which the identity of each constituent depends on the other two. ANDREW COWELL isAssociate Professor of the Department of French and Italian, and the Department of Linguistics, at the University of Colorado.

Book The Pageant of Medieval England

Download or read book The Pageant of Medieval England written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hostages in the Middle Ages

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  • Author : Adam J. Kosto
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Release : 2012-06-21
  • ISBN : 0199651701
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Hostages in the Middle Ages written by Adam J. Kosto and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the changing situations in which hostages were used in the Europe and the Mediterranean world from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, touching on a wide range of topics in military, diplomatic, political, social, gender, economic, and legal history.

Book Medieval Warfare

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  • Author : Maurice Hugh Keen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 1135576262
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Medieval Warfare written by Maurice Hugh Keen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Late medieval England  1377 1485

Download or read book Late medieval England 1377 1485 written by DeLloyd J. Guth and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1976 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Le Mans Forgeries

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  • Author : Walter A. Goffart
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN : 9780674518759
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book The Le Mans Forgeries written by Walter A. Goffart and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the basis of extensive manuscript study, Goffart disentangles the order of composition and authoritatively pronounces on the authenticity of the eighty-four Le Mans charters. Most of all, he insists that the forgeries are an essay on church property and its law.

Book Journal of Medieval Military History

Download or read book Journal of Medieval Military History written by Kelly DeVries and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latest volume of original articles on all aspects of warfare in the middle ages. Volume III of De Re Militari's annual journal once again ranges broadly in its chronological and geographic scope, from John France's article on the evidence which early medieval Saints' Lives provide concerning warfare toSergio Mantovani's examination of the letters of an Italian captain at the very end of the middle ages, and from Spain (Nicolas Agrait's study of early-fourteenth-century Castilian military structures) to the eastern Danube (Carroll Gillmor's surprising explanation for one of Charlemagne's greatest setbacks). Thematic approaches range from "traditional", though revisionist in content, campaign analyses (of Sir Thomas Dagworth, by Clifford J. Rogers, and ofMatilda of Tuscany, by Valerie Eads), to tightly focused studies of a single document (Kelly DeVries on militia logistics in the fifteenth century), to controversial, must-read assessments of the broadest topics in medieval military history (Stephen Morillo and Richard Abels on change vs. continuity from Roman times; J. F. Verbruggen on the importance of cavalry.) CONTRIBUTORS: RICHARD ABELS, NICOLAS AGRAIT, KELLY DEVRIES, VALERIE EADS, JOHNFRANCE, CARROLL GILLMOR, SERGIO MANTOVANI, STEPHEN MORILLO, CLIFFORD J. ROGERS.