Author: S. H. Rigby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading
A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages
Author: S. H. Rigby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading
Making a Living in the Middle Ages
Author: Christopher Dyer
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Dramatic 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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Dramatic 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.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture
Author: Andrew Galloway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405195525
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature. Explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion. Includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, including texts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve. Confronts some of the controversies that exercise students of medieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory, love, and chivalry and war.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405195525
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature. Explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion. Includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, including texts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve. Confronts some of the controversies that exercise students of medieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory, love, and chivalry and war.
Medieval Merchants
Author: Jennifer Kermode
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522748
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An analysis of merchant lives in three northern British cities in the later middle ages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522748
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An analysis of merchant lives in three northern British cities in the later middle ages.
A Companion to the Medieval World
Author: Carol Lansing
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111842512X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of the West Explores Europe’s understanding of the wider world to place the study of the medieval society in a global context
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111842512X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of the West Explores Europe’s understanding of the wider world to place the study of the medieval society in a global context
The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism
Author: Louise D'Arcens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110708671X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
An introduction to medievalism offering a balance of accessibility and sophistication, with comprehensive overviews as well as detailed case studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110708671X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
An introduction to medievalism offering a balance of accessibility and sophistication, with comprehensive overviews as well as detailed case studies.
A Companion to The Book of Margery Kempe
Author: John Arnold
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840305
Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A collection of essays by twelve historians and literary critics who explore Margery Kempe, her Book, and her world.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840305
Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A collection of essays by twelve historians and literary critics who explore Margery Kempe, her Book, and her world.
The Benedictines in the Middle Ages
Author: James G. Clark
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The men and women that followed the 6th-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin Middle Ages. This text follows the Benedictine Order over 11 centuries, from their early diaspora to the challenge of continental reformation.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The men and women that followed the 6th-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin Middle Ages. This text follows the Benedictine Order over 11 centuries, from their early diaspora to the challenge of continental reformation.
In Search of the Dark Ages
Author: Michael Wood
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448141516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea, the leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting the latest historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448141516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea, the leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting the latest historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain.