Historical Britain
Historical Britain

Author: Eric Stuart Wood

Publisher: Harvill Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13:

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This book examines the origins, evolution and progress of Britain's villages, towns, landscape, climate and geology, farming methods, industries, parks, gardens and churches

Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs
Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs

Author: Hugh M. Thomas

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1512807885

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In recent decades, works of the gentry have revolutionized out understanding of late medieval and early modern England. In Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs, Hugh M. Thomas takes the study of the gentry back to the period 1154-1216. His conclusions not only reveal remarkable similarities between the gentry of various periods but also shed light on the massive changes that transformed England in the Angevin Period.

Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles
Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles

Author: Alan R. H. Baker

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1973-07-19

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 9780521201216

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An enormous amount of research into British field systems has been undertaken by historical geographers, economic historians and others since H. L. Gray's classic work on English Field Systems was published. This book both synthesizes and advances our knowledge of field systems in the British Isles.

Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order, C. 1130-c. 1300
Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order, C. 1130-c. 1300

Author: Brian Golding

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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This is the first full scholarly study since 1902 of the Gilbertine order and its founder, St. Gilbert of Sempringham. The Gilbertines were the only native English monastic order, and highly unusual in their provision for both nuns and canons. Brian Golding provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the history of the order from its mid-twelfth-century origins up to the early fourteenth century. He examines the life of St. Gilbert and sets it within the context of twelfth-century monastic reform. His detailed analysis of the economy of the Gilbertines reveals much about monastic revenue and organization, and about relations with the lay community. Golding shows that by 1300 the Gilbertine experiment was largely dead. The founding ideals of a structure in which men and women could live in harmony and order had given way to male domination and the marginalization of the nuns.