Author: G.O. Sayles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429558139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Originally published in 1948, The Medieval Foundations of England is a chronological framework of the history of ideas and action during the medieval period. The book discusses the fundamental problems of medieval life in England, examining the agricultural foundation of England, the impact of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian civilizations, the feudalization of society, and the interpenetration of Anglo-Saxon and Norman civilizations. The book also examines the issues faced by the ‘New Monarchy’ of Henry II and the development of Parliament, it also examines how the intellectual Renaissance of the twelfth century affected medieval society. The book critically examines the historical sources of information and provides a reading list for each chapter.
The Medieval Foundations of England
Author: G.O. Sayles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429558139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Originally published in 1948, The Medieval Foundations of England is a chronological framework of the history of ideas and action during the medieval period. The book discusses the fundamental problems of medieval life in England, examining the agricultural foundation of England, the impact of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian civilizations, the feudalization of society, and the interpenetration of Anglo-Saxon and Norman civilizations. The book also examines the issues faced by the ‘New Monarchy’ of Henry II and the development of Parliament, it also examines how the intellectual Renaissance of the twelfth century affected medieval society. The book critically examines the historical sources of information and provides a reading list for each chapter.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429558139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Originally published in 1948, The Medieval Foundations of England is a chronological framework of the history of ideas and action during the medieval period. The book discusses the fundamental problems of medieval life in England, examining the agricultural foundation of England, the impact of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian civilizations, the feudalization of society, and the interpenetration of Anglo-Saxon and Norman civilizations. The book also examines the issues faced by the ‘New Monarchy’ of Henry II and the development of Parliament, it also examines how the intellectual Renaissance of the twelfth century affected medieval society. The book critically examines the historical sources of information and provides a reading list for each chapter.
The Medieval Foundations of England
Author: George Osborne Sayles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Transformation of Medieval England 1370-1529
Author: J.A.F. Thomson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317872606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
A 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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317872606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
A 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.
Foundation
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250013674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes the wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life in this history of England through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250013674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes the wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life in this history of England through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.
Maps and Monsters in Medieval England
Author: Asa Simon Mittman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135501041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as divinely ordered, so Britain's location at the periphery of the inhabitable world caused anxiety among its inhabitants. Far from the world's holy center, the geographic margins were considered monstrous. Medieval geography, for centuries scorned as crude, is now the subject of several careful studies. Monsters have likewise been the subject of recent attention in the growing field of monster studies, though few works situate these creatures firmly in their specific historical contexts. This book sits at the crossroads of these two discourses (geography and monstrosity), treated separately in the established scholarship but inseparable in the minds of medieval authors and artists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135501041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as divinely ordered, so Britain's location at the periphery of the inhabitable world caused anxiety among its inhabitants. Far from the world's holy center, the geographic margins were considered monstrous. Medieval geography, for centuries scorned as crude, is now the subject of several careful studies. Monsters have likewise been the subject of recent attention in the growing field of monster studies, though few works situate these creatures firmly in their specific historical contexts. This book sits at the crossroads of these two discourses (geography and monstrosity), treated separately in the established scholarship but inseparable in the minds of medieval authors and artists.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England
Author: Nigel Saul
Publisher: Oxford Illustrated History
ISBN: 9780192893246
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to medieval England surveying the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.
Publisher: Oxford Illustrated History
ISBN: 9780192893246
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to medieval England surveying the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.
Medieval England
Author: Edmund King
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Medieval England presents the political and cultural development of English society from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Wars of the Roses. It is a story of change, progress, setback, and consolidation, with England emerging as a wealthy and stable country, many of whose essential features were to remain unchanged until the Industrial Revolution. Edmund King traces his chronicle through the lives of successive monarchs, the inescapable central thread of that epoch. The momentous events of the times are also recreated, from the compiling of the Domesday Book, through the wars with the Scots, the Welsh, and the French, to the Peasants' Revolt and the disastrous Black Death.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Medieval England presents the political and cultural development of English society from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Wars of the Roses. It is a story of change, progress, setback, and consolidation, with England emerging as a wealthy and stable country, many of whose essential features were to remain unchanged until the Industrial Revolution. Edmund King traces his chronicle through the lives of successive monarchs, the inescapable central thread of that epoch. The momentous events of the times are also recreated, from the compiling of the Domesday Book, through the wars with the Scots, the Welsh, and the French, to the Peasants' Revolt and the disastrous Black Death.
Late Medieval England, 1399-1509
Author: A. J. Pollard
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
England's last medieval century was characterised by social stability economic development and cultural vigour which laid the foundations for the emergence of early modern society. Placing the English experience within the vital context of the British Isles, the book ranges from the reign of Henry IV to the closing of the middle ages during the reign of Henry VIII.".
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
England's last medieval century was characterised by social stability economic development and cultural vigour which laid the foundations for the emergence of early modern society. Placing the English experience within the vital context of the British Isles, the book ranges from the reign of Henry IV to the closing of the middle ages during the reign of Henry VIII.".
Medieval Foundations of England
Author: GEORGE O. SAYLES
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Medieval Economy and Society
Author: Michael Moïssey Postan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520023253
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520023253
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description