Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219
Author: Keith John Stringer
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 368
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Author: Keith John Stringer
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study in Anglo-Scottish history.
Author: J. R. Maddicott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-06-20
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780521376365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPartly a study of the politics of Henry III's reign (l2l6-72), this study looks at Simon de Montfort's lands, finances, following and religious ideals. It draws on unusual sources, making his biography as much a study of temperament and character as a political career.
Author: Michael Prestwich
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781843833741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn-depth examinations of the role played by liberties across the British Isles.
Author: Neville Cynthia J. Neville
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0748664637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious book, newly available in paperback, examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering new insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. It is based on a close reading of the texts of several thousand charters, indentures, brieves and other written sources that record the business conducted in royal and baronial courts across the length and breadth of the medieval kingdom between 1150 and 1400.Under the broad themes of land, law and people, this book explores how the customs, laws and traditions of the native inhabitants and those of incoming settlers interacted and influenced each other. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the author places her subject matter firmly within the recent historiography of the British Isles and demonstrates how the experience of Scotland was both similar to, and a distinct manifestation of, a wider process of Europeanisation.
Author: Julia Barrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1316240916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society. This first broad-ranging study in English of the secular clergy examines how ordination provided a framework for clerical life cycles and outlines the influence exerted on secular clergy by monastic ideals before tracing typical career paths for clerics. Concentrating on northern France, England and Germany in the period c.800–c.1200, Julia Barrow explores how entry into the clergy usually occurred in childhood, with parents making decisions for their sons, although other relatives, chiefly clerical uncles, were also influential. By comparing two main types of family structure, Barrow supplies an explanation of why Gregorian reformers faced little serious opposition in demanding an end to clerical marriage in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Changes in educational provision c.1100 also help to explain growing social and geographical mobility among clerics.
Author: Christopher Dyer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-08-11
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 0300167075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian Christopher Dyer presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the sixteenth century and a vivid new account of medieval life. He begins his volume with the formation of towns and villages in the ninth and tenth centuries and ends with the inflation, population rise, and colonial expansion of the sixteenth century. This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and responded to economic change. He examines the growth of towns, the clearing of lands, the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the upheavals of the fifteenth century through the eyes of those who experienced them. He also explores the dilemmas and decisions of those who were making a living in a changing world—from peasants, artisans, and wage earners to barons and monks. Drawing on archaeological and landscape evidence along with more conventional archives and records, the author offers here an engaging survey of British medieval economic history unrivaled in breadth and clarity.
Author: LUCINDA H. S. DEAN
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1837651728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminates how the ceremonial dimension of death and the succession reflected both Scottish royal identity and a broader culture of ceremony. To date, scholarly attention to royal ceremony in Scotland from the Middle Ages into the early modern period has been rather haphazard, with few attempts to explore how these crucial moments for the representation of royal authority. This monograph provides a long durée analysis of the ceremonial cycle of death and succession associated with Scottish kingship from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, including the final century of the Canmore dynasty, the crisis of the Bruce-Balliol conflict, and the emergence and consolidation of the Stewart family up to the funeral of last monarch buried in Scotland, James V, in 1543. Using a broad range of primary sources, including financial records and material culture, many of them previously untapped, it addresses key questions about kingship and power, the function of ceremony in legitimising royal authority, its significance in relation to the practical exercising of power, and evidence for Scottish similarities and distinctiveness within wider European contexts.
Author: Graeme J. White
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-03-28
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1139425234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the processes by which effective royal government was restored in England following the civil war of Stephen's reign. It questions the traditional view that Stephen presided over 'anarchy', arguing instead that the king and his rivals sought to maintain the administrative traditions of Henry I, leaving foundations for a restoration of order once the war was over. The period from 1153 to 1162, spanning the last months of Stephen's reign and the early years of Henry II's, is seen as one primarily of 'restoration' when concerted efforts were made to recover royal lands, rights and revenues lost since 1135. Thereafter 'restoration' gave way to 'reform': although the administrative advances of 1166 have been seen as a watershed in Henry II's reign, the financial and judicial measures of 1163–65 were sufficiently important for this, also, to be regarded as a transitional phase in his government of England.
Author: Peter Coss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 0192586254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the aristocracy in Tuscany and in England across a period of two and a half centuries (1000-1250). It deals first with Tuscany, tracing the history of the aristocracy and illustrating its nature and evolution, and observing aristocratic behaviour and attitudes, and how aristocrats related to other members of society. Peter Coss then examines the history of England in the same periods. It is not, however, a comparative history, but employs Italian insights to look at the aristocracy in England and to move away from the traditional interpretation which revolves around Magna Carta and the idea of English exceptionalism. By offering a study of the aristocracy across a wide time-frame and with themes drawn from Italian historiography, Coss offers a new approach to studying aristocracy within its own contexts.
Author: Kathleen Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107021243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReinterpreting key twelfth-century sources, this book provides the first comprehensive history of the monastic Order of Tiron in France.