Documents Illustrative of Medieval Kentish Society
Author: F. R. H. Du Boulay
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13:
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Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540
Author: Sheila Sweetinburgh
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0851155847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive investigation into Kent in the later middle ages, from its agriculture to religious houses, from ship-building to the parish church.
English Historical Documents, 1189-1327
Author: David Charles Douglas
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 1100
ISBN-13: 0415143683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of documents on English history. Editorial comment is directed towards making sources intelligible rather than drawing conclusions from them. Full account has been taken of modern textual criticism. A general introduction to each volume portrays the character of the period under review and critical bibliographies have been added to assist further investigation. Documents collected include treaties, personal letters, statutes, military dispatches, diaries, declarations, newspaper articles, government and cabinet proceedings, orders, acts, sermons, pamphlets, agricultural instructions, charters, grants, guild regulations and voting records. Volumes include genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.
English Historical Documents
Author: Harry Rothwell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-01
Total Pages: 1100
ISBN-13: 1040288723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of documents on English history ever published. An authoritative work of primary evidence, each volume presents material with exemplary scholarly accuracy. Editorial comment is directed towards making sources intelligible rather than drawing conclusions from them. Full account has been taken of modern textual criticism. A general introduction to each volume portrays the character of the period under review and critical bibliographies have been added to assist further investigation. Documents collected include treaties, personal letters, statutes, military dispatches, diaries, declarations, newspaper articles, government and cabinet proceedings, orders, acts, sermons, pamphlets, agricultural instructions, charters, grants, guild regulations and voting records. Volumes are furnished with lavish extra apparatus including genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.
The Shadow King
Author: Lauren Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 1643131656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thrilling new account of the tragic story and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both. Firstborn son of a warrior father who defeated the French at Agincourt, Henry VI of the House of Lancaster inherited the crown not only of England but also of France, at a time when Plantagenet dominance over the Valois dynasty was at its glorious height. And yet, by the time he died in the Tower of London in 1471, France was lost, his throne had been seized by his rival, Edward IV of the House of York, and his kingdom had descended into the violent chaos of the Wars of the Roses. Henry VI is perhaps the most troubled of English monarchs, a pious, gentle, well-intentioned man who was plagued by bouts of mental illness. In The Shadow King, Lauren Johnson tells his remarkable and sometimes shocking story in a fast-paced and colorful narrative that captures both the poignancy of Henry’s life and the tumultuous and bloody nature of the times in which he lived.
The Transformation of Medieval England 1370-1529
Author: J.A.F. Thomson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-22
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1317872606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed survey which examines the major developments in English society during this period of social crises, population decline, agarian unrest, the introduction to enclosures - and political tensions particularly over succession.
Queens of the Wild
Author: Ronald Hutton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2022-05-31
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0300265271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the Fairy Queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how they changed over the centuries. Looking closely at four main figures—Mother Earth, the Fairy Queen, the Mistress of the Night, and the Old Woman of Gaelic tradition—Hutton challenges decades of debate around the female figures who have long been thought versions of pre-Christian goddesses. He makes the compelling case that these goddess figures found in the European imagination did not descend from the pre-Christian ancient world, yet have nothing Christian about them. It was in fact nineteenth-century scholars who attempted to establish the narrative of pagan survival that persists today.
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages
Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1134825374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1997. Most work in gender studies has focused on women. This volume brings together various forms of gender theory, especially feminist and queer theory, to explore how men made cultures and culture made men, in the Middle Ages.
The King, the Crown, and the Duchy of Lancaster
Author: Helen Castor
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-08-03
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0191542482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1399 Henry Bolingbroke, duke of Lancaster, seized the throne of England to become Henry IV. From 1399, therefore, the Lancastrian kings - unlike their royal predecessors - commanded not only the public authority of the crown, but also the private power of the Duchy of Lancaster. Until now, this has been seen simply as an advantage to the Lancastrian crown, and as an uncontroversial part of the evolution of a 'royal affinity' during the later middle ages. However, this study makes clear that profound tensions existed between the role of the king and that of his alter ego, the duke of Lancaster. This book examines the complex relationship between the king, the crown and the Duchy of Lancaster at both a national and a local level, focusing particularly on the north midlands and East Anglia and, in so doing, sheds light on the nature and functioning of the late medieval English monarchy.
Elf Queens and Holy Friars
Author: Richard Firth Green
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0812293169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. Taking as his starting point the assumption that the major cultural gulf in the Middle Ages was less between the wealthy and the poor than between the learned and the lay, Green explores the church's systematic demonization of fairies and infernalization of fairyland. He argues that when medieval preachers inveighed against the demons that they portrayed as threatening their flocks, they were in reality often waging war against fairy beliefs. The recognition that medieval demonology, and indeed pastoral theology, were packed with coded references to popular lore opens up a whole new avenue for the investigation of medieval vernacular culture. Elf Queens and Holy Friars offers a detailed account of the church's attempts to suppress or redirect belief in such things as fairy lovers, changelings, and alternative versions of the afterlife. That the church took these fairy beliefs so seriously suggests that they were ideologically loaded, and this fact makes a huge difference in the way we read medieval romance, the literary genre that treats them most explicitly. The war on fairy beliefs increased in intensity toward the end of the Middle Ages, becoming finally a significant factor in the witch-hunting of the Renaissance.
