Brian Fitz-Count
Brian Fitz-Count

Author: A. D. Crake

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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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.

Progress and Problems in Medieval England
Progress and Problems in Medieval England

Author: Richard Britnell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-16

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521522731

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A series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

King Stephen
King Stephen

Author: Donald Matthew

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781852852726

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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.

History of the Abbey of Evesham
History of the Abbey of Evesham

Author: Thomas (of Marlborough, Abbot of Evesham)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 9780198204800

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The 'Evesham History' is one of the last important 13th-century texts to be translated.

The Reign of King Stephen
The Reign of King Stephen

Author: David Crouch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1317892968

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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.

The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler
The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler

Author: Robert B. Patterson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0198797818

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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.

The Haskins Society Journal 13
The Haskins Society Journal 13

Author: Stephen Morillo

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781843830504

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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.

King Stephen's Reign (1135-1154)
King Stephen's Reign (1135-1154)

Author: Paul Dalton

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781843833611

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Expert coverage and new assessments of the reign of King Stephen, set in social, political and European context.

King Stephen
King Stephen

Author: Edmund King

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-01-18

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0300170106

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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.