John Hawkwood
John Hawkwood

Author: William Caferro

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2006-04-24

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 0801888808

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Winner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Winner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy. Born in England, Hawkwood began his career in France during the Hundred Years' War and crossed into Italy with the famed White Company in 1361. From that time until his death in 1394, Hawkwood fought throughout the peninsula as a captain of armies in times of war and as a commander of marauding bands during times of peace. He achieved international fame, and city-states constantly tried to outbid each other for his services, for which he received money, land, and, in the case of Florence, citizenship—a most unusual honor for an Englishman. When Hawkwood died, the Florentines buried him with great ceremony in their cathedral, an honor denied their greatest poet, Dante. William Caferro's ambitious account of Hawkwood is both a biography and a study of warfare and statecraft. Caferro has mined more than twenty archives in Britain and Italy, creating an authoritative portrait of Hawkwood as an extraordinary military leader, if not always an admirable human being.

Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics
Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics

Author: Stan Booth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-21

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1000380270

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Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the bioethics of extinction from disparate disciplines, from literature, to social sciences, to history, to sustainability studies, to linguistics. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase “Global Bioethics” to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter’s founding vision from historical perspectives, and asks, how did we get here from then? Extinction can be understood in terms of an everlasting termination of shape, form, and function; however, until now life has gone on. Where would we humans be if the dinosaurs had not become extinct? And we still manage to communicate, only not in proto-Indo-European, but in a myriad of languages, some more common than others. The answer is simple, after extinction events, evolution continues. But will it always be so? Has the human race set planet earth on a collision course with nothingness? This volume explores areas of bioethical interpretation in relation to the complex concept of extinction.

The Bookseller
The Bookseller

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Published: 1908

Total Pages: 1176

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Maintenance in Medieval England
Maintenance in Medieval England

Author: Jonathan Rose

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1107043980

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Identifying for the first time the true nature of maintenance, this study uses primary sources to reach new findings on its lawfulness.

Lincoln Castle Revealed
Lincoln Castle Revealed

Author: Jonathan Clark

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1789257387

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This book tells a new story of the royal castle of Lincoln in the north of England, how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town, and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the English king or his aristocratic associates, leaving us a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography. Led by FAS Heritage, archaeologists, architectural historians and a large cohort of the general public have combined to produce a revealing and accessible account of the story of Lincoln Castle and a reborn historical attraction for the city of Lincoln.