Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages
Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages

Author: Timothy Reuter

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1992-07-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0826426751

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While Karl Leyser was pre-eminent in the English-speaking world as the historian of medieval Germany, his work has increased our understanding of European society as a whole. In particular, he brought to life nobles and ecclesiastics, by combining a profound knowledge of the primary sources with an imaginative ability to understand motives and attitudes. Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages brings together essays by Karl Leyser's pupils, many of them distinguished historians in their own right, on subjects which he himself illuminated.

King Edward II
King Edward II

Author: Roy Martin Haines

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2003-05-08

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 077357056X

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Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence. This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by indolence, vengefulness, vacillation in relationships with France, deranged policies at home, and constitutional wrangling, ultimately brought to an end by a minor insurgency led by his vindictive wife and her paramour, a disaffected baron.