Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 992

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Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 930

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Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Documents, Printing of
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: United States. Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1196

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Author: Brendan Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108625258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in The Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original interpretations in a fresh and accessible manner. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. At each turn the question is asked: to what extent were these developments unique to Ireland? The openness of Ireland to outside influences, and its capacity to influence the world beyond its shores, are recurring themes. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe.

Author: Great Britain. Court of Chancery
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 926

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Author: Alexander Clarence Flick
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Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: David Marcombe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0851158935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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One of the most unusual contributions to the crusading era was the idea of the leper knight - a response to the scourge of leprosy and the shortage of fighting men which beset the Latin kingdom in the twelfth century. The Order of St Lazarus, which saw the idea become a reality, founded establishments across Western Europe to provide essential support for its hospitaller and military vocations. This book explores the important contribution of the English branch of the order, which by 1300 managed a considerable estate from its chief preceptory at Burton Lazars in Leicestershire. Time proved the English Lazarites to be both tough and tenacious, if not always preoccupied with the care of lepers. Following the fall of Acre in 1291 they endured a period of bitter internal conflict, only to emerge reformed and reinvigorated in the fifteenth century. Though these late medieval knights were very different from their twelfth-century predecessors, some ideologies lingered on, though subtly readapted to the requirements of a new age, until the order was finally suppressed by Henry VIII in 1544. The modern refoundation of the order, a charitable institution, dates from 1962. The book uses both documentary and archaeological evidence to provide the first ever account of this little-understood crusading order.DAVID MARCOMBE is Director of the Centre for Local History, University of Nottingham.

Author: Hippolyte Taine
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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