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Book The Langley Cartulary

Download or read book The Langley Cartulary written by Peter R. Coss and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cartulary of St Mary s Collegiate Church  Warwick

Download or read book The Cartulary of St Mary s Collegiate Church Warwick written by C. R. Fonge and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction in the edition examines the foundation of the college, its acquisition of property, and its constitutional development and character."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Sibton Abbey Cartularies and Charters

Download or read book Sibton Abbey Cartularies and Charters written by Sibton Abbey and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1985 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealth of surviving documents provide an unusally comprehensive overview of this Cistercian house.

Book The Cartulary of St Leonard s Hospital  York

Download or read book The Cartulary of St Leonard s Hospital York written by David Carpenter and published by Yorkshire Archaeological Soc R. This book was released on 2015 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edition of documents concerned with one of the most important institutions of medieval York.

Book The Earl  the Kings  and the Chronicler

Download or read book The Earl the Kings and the Chronicler written by Robert B. Patterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (c.1088-1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and eldest son of King Henry I of England (1100-35), who could not succeed his father because he was a bastard. Instead, as the earl of Gloucester, he helped change the course of English history by keeping alive the prospects for an Angevin succession through his leadership of its supporters against his father's successor, King Stephen (1135-54) in the civil war known as the Anarchy. Robert of Gloucester is one of the great figures of Anglo-Norman history (1066-1154). He occupies important niches in the era's literature, from comprehensive political studies of Henry I's and Stephen's reigns and an array of specialized fields to the 'Brother Cadfael' novels of Ellis Peters. Gloucester was one of only three landed super-magnates of his day, a model post-Conquest great baron, Marcher lord, borough developer, and patron of the rising merchant class. His trans-Channel barony stretched from western Lower Normandy across England to south Wales. Robert was both a product and a significant agent of the contemporary cultural revival known as the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, being bi-lingual, well educated, and a significant literary patron. In this last role he is especially notable for commissioning the greatest English historian since Bede, William of Malmesbury, to produce a history of their times which justified the empress Matilda's claim to the English throne and Earl Robert's support of it.

Book Lordship  Knighthood and Locality

Download or read book Lordship Knighthood and Locality written by Peter R. Coss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the evolution of the knightly class in Coventry and Warwickshire.

Book The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England

Download or read book The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England written by Joseph Biancalana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fee tails were a heritable interest in land which was both inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to descendants of the original grantee. Biancalana's study considers the origins of the entail, and the development of a reliable legal mechanism for their destruction, the common recovery.

Book Coventry  Medieval Art  Architecture and Archaeology in the City and its Vicinity

Download or read book Coventry Medieval Art Architecture and Archaeology in the City and its Vicinity written by Linda Monckton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Archaeological Association's 2007 conference celebrated the material culture of medieval Coventry, the fourth wealthiest English city of the later middle ages. The nineteen papers collected in this volume set out to remedy the relative neglect in modern scholarship of the city's art, architecture and archaeology, as well as to encompass recent research on monuments in the vicinity. The scene is set by two papers on archaeological excavations in the historic city centre, especially since the 1970s, and a paper investigating the relationships between Coventry's building boom and economic conditions in the city in the later middle ages. Three papers on the Cathedral Priory of St Mary bring together new insights into the Romanesque cathedral church, the monastic buildings and the post-Dissolution history of the precinct, derived mainly from the results of the Phoenix Initiative excavations (19992003). Three more papers provide new architectural histories of the spectacular former parish church of St Michael, the fine Guildhall of St Mary and the remarkable surviving west range of the Coventry Charterhouse. The high-quality monumental art of the later medieval city is represented by papers on wall-painting (featuring the recently conserved Doom in Holy Trinity church), on the little-known Crucifixion mural at the Charterhouse, and on a reassessment of the working practices of the famous master-glazier, John Thornton. Two papers on a guild seal and on the glazing at Stanford on Avon parish church consider the evidence for Coventry as a regional workshop centre for high quality metalwork and glass-painting. Beyond the city, three papers deal with the development of Combe Abbey from Cistercian monastery to country house, with the Beauchamp family's hermitage at Guy's Cliffe, and with a newly identified stonemasons' workshop in the 'barn' at Kenilworth Abbey. Two further papers concern the architectural patronage of the earls and dukes of Lancaster in the 14th century at Kenilworth Castle and in the Newarke at Leicester Castle.

Book Landlords  Peasants and Politics in Medieval England

Download or read book Landlords Peasants and Politics in Medieval England written by T. H. Aston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this book, reprinted from the journal Past and Present, are all, in different ways, concerned with the ownership of landed property in medieval England and with those who worked the land. Problems debated include those concerning the keeping intact of the great estates of the Anglo-Norman barons in the face of both inheritance claims and of political manipulation by the crown. Other articles show that the difficulties of knights and lesser gentry were no less complex, as social shifts resulted from economic developments as well as from their military role and their relationships with their overlords. The essays are of as much importance for those interested in the history of politics as to those concerned with the economy and society of medieval England.

Book The Pakenham Cartulary for the Manor of Ixworth Thorpe  Suffolk C 1250 c 1320

Download or read book The Pakenham Cartulary for the Manor of Ixworth Thorpe Suffolk C 1250 c 1320 written by S. D. Church and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition represents a remarkable survival of the detail by which a member of the armoured class of late thirteenth-century Suffolk chose to provide for one of his younger sons. The Pakenham cartulary for the manor of Ixworth Thorpe in Suffolk is one of the few secular medieval cartularies to survive. It is especially deserving of attention for its demonstration of the importance families of the Pakenhamclass attached to the provision of inheritances for their younger sons. Thomas of Pakenham, the man for whom the cartulary was composed, was the second son of the knight Sir William of Pakenham; his elder brother Edmund was the main beneficiary of their father's estate, but it is clear that Sir William wished to provide for all his sons: the manor of Ixworth Thorpe was Thomas's inheritance. The charters collected in this cartulary represent the assets of Sir William in the vill, accumulated over a period of about fifty years, plus acquisitions made by Thomas after his father's death. Dr S.D. CHURCH is Senior Lecturer in History, University of East Anglia.

Book Baronial Reform and Revolution in England  1258 1267

Download or read book Baronial Reform and Revolution in England 1258 1267 written by Adrian Jobson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New investigations into a pivotal era of the thirteenth century.

Book Peasant Perceptions of Landscape

Download or read book Peasant Perceptions of Landscape written by Stephen Mileson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their identities in relation to the places where they lived. This volume provides exactly such an analysis by examining peasant perceptions in one geographical area over the long period from AD 500 to 1650. The study takes as its focus Ewelme hundred, a well-documented and archaeologically-rich area of lowland vale and hilly Chiltern wood-pasture comprising fourteen ancient parishes. The analysis draws on a range of sources including legal depositions and thousands of field-names and bynames preserved in largely unpublished deeds and manorial documents. Archaeology makes a major contribution, particularly for understanding the period before 900, but more generally in reconstructing the fabric of villages and the framework for inhabitants' spatial practices and experiences. In its focus on the way inhabitants interacted with the landscape in which they worked, prayed, and socialised, Peasant Perceptions of Landscape supplies a new history of the lives and attitudes of the bulk of the rural population who so seldom make their mark in traditional landscape analysis or documentary history.

Book Thirteenth Century England VIII

Download or read book Thirteenth Century England VIII written by Michael Prestwich and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series is home to scholarship of the highest order covering a wide range of themes: from politics and warfare to administration, justice and society. The topics of the papers in this book range from the sublime to the macabre: romance, rape, money, politics and religion. Wide-ranging papers cover many themes: the role of knights in the civil war at the end of John's reign, the politics of Ireland at the time of Richard Marshal's rebellion, the crusading context of the de Montfort family, the Petition of the Barons of 1258, and the government of England during Edward I's absence on crusade form one group of papers which illuminate the politics of the period. The history of the Jews in their final days in England is examined, as are the techniques used to supply Edward I's armies. Legal matters are considered, with papers on manorial courts, capital punishment, and the offence of rape. Romance is treated in a historical context with Edward I's marriage plans of 1294. Also included is discussion of the dissemination of the Sarum rite, the building of Westminster Abbey, ecclesiastical mints, and Matthew Paris's maps. Contributors: MARTIN ALLEN, DAVID CARPENTER, DAVIDCROOK, KATHERINE FAULKNER, PETER EDBURY, PAUL HARVEY, RICHARD HUSCROFT, NIGEL MORGAN, MARK ORMROD, ZEFIRA ROKEAH, CORINNE SAUNDERS, BRENDAN SMITH, KATHERINE STOCKS, HENRY SUMMERSON, MARK VAUGHN.

Book THE MEDIEVAL CORONER  A Brief Examination

Download or read book THE MEDIEVAL CORONER A Brief Examination written by Robert D. Flynn and published by Robert Flynn. This book was released on 2024-03-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Medieval origins of the office of Coroner, today's Medical Examiner. From it's earliest beginnings in the obscured,depths of the Middle Ages, the Medieval Coroner played an important role as the King's man in the local community. Once consolidated, the duties of the Coroner were wide and varied and required exceptional men who were loyal, honest, fair, obedient, and diligent. Venture back centuries into the past to discover where the office of Coroner originated, who were the men who served in this position, what were the requirements for office and why could they be removed, what were their assets and how were they ranked in terms of wealth in relations to others in the community, and finally, what types of service did these men perform in addition to their duties as Coroner. Everything you ever wanted to know about the office of Medieval Coroner in a concise book.

Book Abstracts of records and manuscripts respecting the county of Gloucester  formed into a history

Download or read book Abstracts of records and manuscripts respecting the county of Gloucester formed into a history written by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Textual Situations

Download or read book Textual Situations written by Andrew Taylor and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland. But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical context of the manuscript itself. The original copy of The Song of Roland is actually bound with a Latin translation of the Timaeus. Textual Situations looks at this bound volume along with two other similarly bound medieval volumes to explore the manuscripts and marginalia that have been cast into shadow by the fame of adjacent texts, some of the most read medieval works. In addition to the bound volume that contains The Song of Roland, Taylor examines the volume that binds the well-known poem "Sumer is icumen in" with the Lais of Marie de France, and a volume containing the legal Decretals of Gregory IX with marginal illustrations of wayfaring life decorating its borders. Approaching the manuscript as artifact, Textual Situations suggests that medieval texts must be examined in terms of their material support—that is, literal interpretation must take into consideration the physical manuscript itself in addition to the social conventions that surround its compilation. Taylor reconstructs the circumstances of the creation of these medieval bound volumes, the settings in which they were read, inscribed, and shared, and the social and intellectual conventions surrounding them.