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Book Camden Miscellany XXXII

    Book Details:
  • Author : Royal Historical Society
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780521551595
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Camden Miscellany XXXII written by Royal Historical Society and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, part of a series, deals with the parliamentary papers of Nicholas Ferrer, from 1624. Other speeches of parliamentarians of the time are also mentioned, along with information on Sir Cheney Culpeper.

Book Camden Miscellany Xxxiii

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  • Author : David R. Ransome
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780521573955
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Camden Miscellany Xxxiii written by David R. Ransome and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Camden volumes, published by the Royal Historical Society, offer collections of skillfully edited primary source material for historians. The Camden Miscellany collections contain a variety of shorter documents and papers. This volume comprises seventeenth-century documents on parliamentary and financial matters.

Book Camden Miscellany XXXII

Download or read book Camden Miscellany XXXII written by Michael Jones and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, part of a series, deals with the parliamentary papers of Nicholas Ferrer, from 1624. Other speeches of parliamentarians of the time are also mentioned, along with information on Sir Cheney Culpeper.

Book The Camden Miscellany

Download or read book The Camden Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Camden Miscellany

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  • Release : 1875
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Camden Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Camden Miscellany

Download or read book Camden Miscellany written by Royal Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages

Download or read book English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages written by Nigel Saul and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments. It examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, and sculpted effigies. It analyzes them in an historical context to show what they reveal of the self image and religious aspirations of those they commemorate.--Summary by the editor.

Book The Soldier in Later Medieval England

Download or read book The Soldier in Later Medieval England written by Adrian R. Bell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hundred Years War was a struggle for control over the French throne, fought as a series of conflicts between England, France, and their respective allies. The Soldier in Later Medieval England is the outcome of a project which collects the names of every soldier known to have served the English Crown from 1369 to the loss of Gascony in 1453, the event which is traditionally accepted as the end-date of the Hundred Years War. The data gathered throughout the project has allowed the authors of this volume to compare different forms of war, such as the chevauchées of the late fourteenth century and the occupation of French territories in the fifteenth century, and thus to identify longer-term trends. It also highlights the significance of the change of dynasty in England in the early 1400s. The scope of the volume begins in 1369 because of the survival from that point of the 'muster roll', a type of documentary record in which soldiers names are systematically recorded. The muster roll is a rich resource for the historian, as it allows closer study to be made of the peerage, the knights, the men-at-arms (the esquires), and especially the lower ranks of the army, such as the archers, who contributed the largest proportion of troops to English royal service. The Soldier in Later Medieval England seeks to investigate the different types of soldier, their regional and national origins, and movement between ranks. This is a wide-ranging volume, which offers invaluable insights into a much-neglected subject, and presents many opportunities for future research.

Book The Making of Polities

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  • Author : John Watts
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2009-05-07
  • ISBN : 0521792320
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book The Making of Polities written by John Watts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major survey of political life in late medieval Europe provides a framework for understanding the developments that shaped this turbulent period. Rather than emphasising crisis, decline, disorder or the birth of the modern state, this account centres on the mixed results of political and governmental growth across the continent. The age of the Hundred Years War, schism and revolt was also a time of rapid growth in jurisdiction, taxation and representation, of spreading literacy and evolving political technique. This mixture of state formation and political convulsion lay at the heart of the 'making of polities'. Offering a full introduction to political events and processes from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth, this book combines a broad, comparative account with discussion of individual regions and states, including eastern and northern Europe alongside the more familiar west and south.

Book Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone

Download or read book Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone written by Joseph S. Meisel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the last decades of the nineteenth century, more people were making more speeches to greater numbers in a wider variety of venues than at any previous time. This book argues that a recognizably modern public life was created in Victorian Britain largely through the instrumentality of public speech. Shedding new light on the careers of many of the most important figures of the Victorian era and beyond, including Gladstone, Disraeli, Sir Robert Peel, John Bright, Joseph Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and Canon Liddon, the book traces the ways in which oratory came to occupy a central position in the conception and practice of Victorian public life. Not a study of rhetoric or a celebration of great oratory, the book stresses the social developments that led to the production and consumption of these speeches.

Book Henry of Lancaster s Expedition to Aquitaine  1345 1346  Military Service and Professionalism in the Hundred Years War

Download or read book Henry of Lancaster s Expedition to Aquitaine 1345 1346 Military Service and Professionalism in the Hundred Years War written by Nicholas A. Gribit and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 Henry of Lancaster and the English Expedition to Aquitaine, 1345-46 -- 2 English and Welsh Soldiers: Troop Types in Lancaster's Army -- 3 Raising an Army: Recruitment and Composition -- 4 Paying an Army: Financial Administration -- 5 The Twin Victories: The First Campaign, 1345 -- 6 Siege and Conquest by Sword: The Second Campaign, 1346 -- 7 Lancaster's War Retinue in 1345: Formation and Structure -- 8 Lancaster's War Retinue in 1345: Cohesion and Stability -- 9 An Era of Military Professionalism: Careers and Patterns of Service

Book Henry IV

Download or read book Henry IV written by Gwilym Dodd and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crucial first years of Henry IV's reign examined, to discover how he met and overcame the challenges created by his usurpation of the throne. Having seized the throne from his cousin Richard II in 1399, Henry Bolingbroke, the first nobleman to be made king of England since the twelfth century, faced the remarkable challenge of securing his power and authority over a kingdom that was divided and in turmoil. This collection of essays - the first such collection focusing specifically on the reign of the first Lancastrian king - by some of the leading historians of late medieval England, takes a fresh look at the crucial but neglected first years of Henry IV's reign, examining how Henry met and overcame the challenges which his usurpation created. Topics covered include a reappraisal of the events surrounding the revolutionof 1399; Henry's relations with his northern magnates; the Yorkshire rising of 1405; the "Long Parliament" of 1406 and the nature and purpose of the king's council. This collection adds significantly to an understanding of the character of Henry IV, as well as the circumstances in which he ruled, and will be essential for anyone with an interest in late medieval English political history. Dr GWILYM DODD is Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham; Dr DOUGLAS BIGGS teaches at the Department of History at Waldorf College. Contributors: M. ARVANIGIAN, MICHAEL J. BENNETT, DOUGLAS BIGGS, JOEL BURDEN, GWILYM DODD, ANTHONY GOODMAN, ANDY KING, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, A.J.TUCK, SIMON K. WALKER.

Book Robert de Vere  Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland  1362 1392

Download or read book Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland 1362 1392 written by James Ross and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of one of the most controversial figures of later fourteenth century England.

Book Exploring history 1400   1900

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  • Author : Rachel Gibbons
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-18
  • ISBN : 1847792588
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Exploring history 1400 1900 written by Rachel Gibbons and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring history 1400–1900: An anthology of primary sources reaches out to the reader across an expanse of 500 years. It offers a broad sweep of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and state-formation. Spanning continents and genres, the selection of documents illuminates the links between concurrent events in diverse places and illustrates the legacies of important social, religious and political trends. Previously unpublished accounts and newly translated material reveal new perspectives on both familiar and less well-known events. In capturing this spectrum of human activity and endeavour the book uniquely provides insights into the daily concerns and critical debates of the day, and the opportunity to engage with primary sources as tools for the knowledge creation and critical evaluation. It will be an essential companion to a wide range of courses in historical study and an engaging read for anyone interested in researching, reviewing or relating more closely to a rich historical past.

Book Historians on Chaucer

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  • Author : Alastair Minnis
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2014-12-04
  • ISBN : 0191003689
  • Pages : 525 pages

Download or read book Historians on Chaucer written by Alastair Minnis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human condition', critics from a wide range of theoretical approaches have in recent years shown how the work of poets such as Chaucer constituted engagements with the power relations and social inequalities of their time. Yet, perhaps surprisingly, medieval historians have played little part in this 'historical turn' in the study of medieval literature. The aim of this volume is to allow historians who are experts in the fields of economic, social, political, religious, and intellectual history the chance to interpret one of the most famous works of Middle English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales, in its contemporary context. Rather than resorting to traditional historical attempts to see Chaucer's descriptions of the Canterbury pilgrims as immediate reflections of historical reality or as portraits of real life people whom Chaucer knew, the contributors to this volume have sought to show what interpretive frameworks were available to Chaucer in order to make sense of reality and how he adapted his literary and ideological inheritance so as to engage with the controversies and conflicts of his own day. Beginning with a survey of recent debates about the social meaning of Chaucer's work, the volume then discusses each of the Canterbury pilgrims in turn. Historians on Chaucer should be of interest to all scholars and students of medieval culture whether they are specialists in literature or history.

Book Britannia s Glories

Download or read book Britannia s Glories written by Philip Woodfine and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The War of Jenkins Ear' examined for the first time in a full-length study, looking at the vitality of popular politics and the inner workings of Parliament during the time.

Book Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages

Download or read book Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages written by Anne Curry and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of service was ingrained in medieval culture, and not just as part of the wider concept of patronage. These studies examine the nature and importance of service in the 14th and 15th centuries in a variety of contexts.