BAR Publishing, 2007. — 83 p. — (BAR British Series 450). Sculpted stones and carvings in caves and rock faces testify to an unexplored facet of early Christianity across a zone stretching from the Scottish coasts to Iceland. Though recent work paves the way for a more nuanced interpretation of this material, key uncertainties pose significant hurdles for scholarship. This book...
Second Edition. — Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 448 p. — (Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures). The new edition of Medieval England, 500-1500 , edited by Emilie Amt and Katherine Allen Smith, spans several centuries in 102 documents that present the social and political history of England. The documents include constitutional highlights and records...
Second Edition. — Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 448 p. — (Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures). — ISBN: 978-1-4426-3467-1. The new edition of Medieval England, 500-1500 , edited by Emilie Amt and Katherine Allen Smith, spans several centuries in 102 documents that present the social and political history of England. The documents include...
Boydell & Brewer, 2020. — 440 p. Eleventh-century England suffered two devastating conquests, each bringing the rule of a foreign king and the imposition of a new regime. Yet only the second event, the Norman Conquest of 1066, has been credited with the impact and influence of a permanent transformation. Half a century earlier, the Danish conquest of 1016 had nonetheless marked...
London, New York: B.T.Batsword Ltd, 1961. — 175 p. Under the feudal system, introduced by the Normans society was like a pyramid. At the top of the pyramid was the king. Below him were the barons or tenants-in-chief. The king granted them land and in return they had to provide so many soldiers to fight for so many days a year. They also had to swear an oath of loyalty to the king...
London: Cardinal, 1973. — 226 p. King Arthur has enjoyed greater glory, both at home and abroad, than any other British hero. But with this glory have come the myths and legends, causing many people to question whether Arthur really existed. In this fascinating book Richard Barber separates the man from the myth by examining the scanty literary and archaeological evidence on...
New York: Seabury Press, 1976. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0816431671; ISBN13: 978-0816431670 A Strong Land and a Sturdy looks at Britain from the time of the Norman Conquest until the end of the English kings’ wars in France in 1453. The great events it records are not the ones usually found in history books: they are the appearance of the first heroic romances, the emergence of...
Routledge, 1999 - 417 p.
At the beginning of the period he shows us an England that is still, politically and culturally, on the fringe of the classical world. By the end of John’s reign, the new world that has emerged was in outlook, structure and character, recognisable as part of the modern age.
Incorporating the findings of the most recent scholarship in the field – much...
Routledge, 2003. — 229 pages. — ISBN: 9780582784406 The family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in English history, whose most famous son was King Harold. Frank Barlow charts the family through to Harold – the last Anglo-Saxon king – and finally the crowning of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest. Set against the backdrop of Viking raids and...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 317 p. This is the first analysis of the full breadth of papal involvement in late medieval Britain, using local sources in conjunction with material from the Vatican Archives. It deals with the Avignon Papacy's relations with Scotland and northern England during a period in which papal involvement at the local level was unusually wide-ranging,...
Pan, 2022. — 320 p. Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention. An Old English term for the Dark Age world, it was always assumed that the importance of magic in this world existed only in Tolkien’s works; now Professor Brian Bates reveals the vivid truth about this historical culture. Behind the stories we know of Dark Age kings and...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013. — 356 p. A rich collection of articles on multiple aspects of Anglo-Norman and Norman studies, forming an indispensable addition to an understanding of this important period of history. This volume of Anglo-Norman Studies demonstrates yet again the multi-disciplinarity and European range of the series. As befits the proceedings of a...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014. — 290 p. The contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period in a variety of disciplines. They begin with Elisabeth van Houts' Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, which makes a major contribution to understanding the culture of early tenth-century Normandy. A number of...
2nd Edition — University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. — 192 p. A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general readers. Like Cecilia Penifader, most people in the Middle...
2nd Edition — University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. — 192 p. A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general readers. Like Cecilia Penifader, most people in the Middle...
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1906. — 419 p. The accession of the young King, then only three-and-twenty years of age, brought to the City as well as to the Country, a welcome period of rest and peace and prosperity. These precious gifts were secured by the ceaseless watchfulness of the King, whose itinerary shows that he was a most unwearied traveller, with a determined purpose...
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1906. — 436 p. Before entering upon the government of London under the Plantagenet Kings, let us first ask what are the documents in which we shall find information at first hand. No city in the world possesses a collection of archives so ancient and so complete as the collection at the Guildhall. Riley, in his Introduction to the Liber Aldus, begins...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. — 264 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 50). First full-length account of St Stephen's Chapel, bringing out its full importance and influence throughout the Middle Ages. In St Stephen's College, the royally-favoured religious institution at the heart of the busy administrative world of the Palace of Westminster, church and...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 342 p. The volume celebrates the career of the influential historian of late medieval Scotland and northern England, Dr Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with the profound shift in thinking about this society in the light of his scholarship, and the development of the "New Orthodoxy", both attending to the legacy of this discourse, and...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 342 p. The volume celebrates the career of the influential historian of late medieval Scotland and northern England, Dr Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with the profound shift in thinking about this society in the light of his scholarship, and the development of the "New Orthodoxy", both attending to the legacy of this discourse, and...
Brill, 2015. — 310 p. — (Medieval Law and Its Practice, Volume: 18). Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 335 p. In this series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries, fourteen contributors address many of the most important themes in an era that experienced profound change in rural, commercial, urban and industrial life. Subjects covered include the growth of London, the commercial and...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1966. — 308 p. The 400 years covered by this volume saw two Danish invasions and the Norman Conquest of England. Each conquest carried with it extensive political and social changes. Alfred began the work of creating a unified kingdom out of the shambles of the smaller kingdoms that had fallen under Viking raids. The ninth and tenth centuries saw the...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1983. — 233 p. Norman Romanesque Sculpture: Regional Groups; Roman de Rouand the Norman Conquest; Bayeux Tapestry; Military Service before 1066; England and Byzantium; Abbatiale de Bernay; Sompting Church; William's Sheriffs; The House of Redvers and its Foundations; Anglo-Norman Verse; The Umfravilles in Northumberland; Chronicon ex Chronicis;...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 293 p. — ISBN 978-3110719576. When high-magnitude meteorological hazards impact vulnerable human populations, disasters are the inevitable consequence. Through archaeological and historical evidence, this book investigates how these sudden and unpredictable events affected British medieval populations (AD 1000-1500). Medieval society understood disasters in...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 292 p. When high-magnitude meteorological hazards impact vulnerable human populations, disasters are the inevitable consequence. Through archaeological and historical evidence, this book investigates how these sudden and unpredictable events affected British medieval populations (AD 1000-1500). Medieval society understood disasters in a practical sense and...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1978. — 268 p. Table of contents: N. P. Brooks and the late H. E. Walker, The authority and interpretation of the Bayeux Tapestry Marjorie Chibnall, Feudal society in Orderic Vitalis Raymonde Foreville, Le Sacre des rois anglo-normands et angevins et le serment du sacre (XIe–XIIe siècles) John Godfrey, The defeated Anglo-Saxons take service with...
Routledge, 2020. — 168 p. Originally published in 1973, Origins of English Feudalism suggests that English feudalism has, for a long time, been the most controversial and thereby the most highly technical aspect of English medieval history. The book contains relevant sources that will be of use to readers and will allow them to study documentary, literary and archaeological...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 268 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 35). In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the history of the numerous houses of monks, canons and nuns which existed in the medieval British Isles, considering them in their wider socio-cultural-economic context; historians are now questioning some of the older assumptions about...
Routledge, 2015. — 200 p. Divorce in Medieval England is intended to reorient scholarly perceptions concerning divorce in the medieval period. Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval period and highlighting the fact that couples...
Brill, 2018. — 310 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 17). A set of essays intended to recognize the scholarship of Professor Cynthia Neville, the papers gathered here explore borders and boundaries in medieval and early modern Britain. Over her career, Cynthia has excavated the history of border law and social life on the frontier between England and Scotland and has written...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 485 p. In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of...
Routledge, 2021. — 241 p. First published in 1982, The English Medieval Landscape was written to recreate and analyse the development of the major elements of the medieval landscape. Illustrated with maps and photographs, the book explores the nature of the English landscape between 1066 and 1485, from farms and chases to castles, monastic settlements, villages, roads, and...
Western Michigan University Press, 2017. — 618 p. Caroline Barron is the foremost scholar of medieval London and she has made her impact through a series of major articles touching the politics, guilds, and people of the City. This collection of eighteen revised and updated papers deal with the Crown and the City; parish, church and religious culture; people of late-medieval...
Faber & Faber, 2010. — 470 p. In medieval England, man was the ruler of woman, and the King was the ruler of all. How, then, could royal power lie in female hands? In She-Wolves , celebrated historian, Helen Castor, tells the dramatic and fascinating stories of four exceptional women who, while never reigning queens, held great power: Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of...
Faber & Faber, 2010. — 470 p. In medieval England, man was the ruler of woman, and the King was the ruler of all. How, then, could royal power lie in female hands? In She-Wolves , celebrated historian, Helen Castor, tells the dramatic and fascinating stories of four exceptional women who, while never reigning queens, held great power: Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of...
Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2024. — 200 p. — (Early Social Performance). Performing Disability is a landmark examination of performance history in the medieval and early modern era. Seeking to provide a fact-based assessment of disabled performance, this survey examines the nature and socialization of disabled performers in the medieval and early Tudor periods. Using Records...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 173 p. However they came to control most of England, the Anglo-Saxons became the dominant power in the region for nearly 500 years, and the strength of their cultural influence could be felt even after William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings and became the first Norman ruler on the island. The efforts to consolidate his rule in...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994. — 312 p. Table of contents: W. M. Aird, St Cuthbert, the Scots and the Normans Robert S. Babcock, Rhys ap Tewdwr, king of Deheubarth Paul Brand, ‘Time out of mind’: the knowledge and use of the eleventh- and twelfthcentury past in thirteenth-century litigation Shirley Ann Brown and Michael W. Herren, The Adelae Comitissae of Baudri of...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 212 p. The articles brought together here demonstrate the exciting vitality of this field. The volume begins with a keynote chapter on the failure of marriages among Christians and Muslims in crusader diplomacy, a theme which is more broadly continued with a study of the royal city of Palermo. Other chapters consider the ceremony of knighting and the...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 186 p. The most recent cutting-edge scholarship on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. The essays collected here demonstrate the rich vitality of scholarship in this area. This volume has a particular focus on the interrelations between the various parts of north-western Europe. After the opening piece on Lotharingia, there are detailed studies of...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2023. — 292 p. This year's volume is made up of articles that were presented at the conference in Bonn, held under the auspices of the University. In this volume, Alheydis Plassmann, the Allen Brown Memorial lecturer, analyses how two contemporary commentators reported the events of their day, the contest between two grandchildren of William the...
London: Wyman and Sons, 1884. — 491 p. The coeval military structures exhibit, generally, no such splendours of design or excellence of execution, nor do they awaken such sympathies in our breasts. The parish church is the common concern of all who worship within its walls, or whose dead are laid within its sacred precinct but the castle, always a dangerous and unpopular...
Boydell Press, 2007. — 248 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 30). The cultural remains of England's abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought -...
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1989. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0-11-290458-0. This book, one of a series on the history of London being produced by the Museum of London, tells a story that begins amid the ruins of the once great Roman city of Londinium , with perhaps a handful of impoverished inhabitants, and culminates at the beginning of the 13th century in the legend of...
John Donald, 2023. — 240 p. Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the first part of that turbulent era, tracing the story of the Isle of Man from the fifth to the thirteenth...
London: UCL Press, 1999. — 280 p. — ISBN: 1-85728-516-6; 1-85728-517-4. This work presents a composite view of medieval English university life. The author offers detailed insights into the social and economic conditions of the lives of students, their teaching masters and fellows. The experiences of college benefactors, women and university servants are also examined,...
University of Oxford, 2018. — 283 p. This thesis examines the genesis and development of the English land tax, commonly known as geld or Danegeld, from 991 until 1162. The thesis begins with an analysis of tribute money (gafol) paid by King Æthelred to Viking invaders, and the evolution of that tax into heregeld, an annual tax paid to maintain a standing Scandinavian fleet. It...
Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research. Vol. 2. P. 313–327 The object of this paper is to show that the “Heimskringla” and the English chroniclers have the same story about the death of Eirík, last king of York, and therefore mean the same person; also to collect material towards a fuller account of his reign.
University of Birmingham, 2023. — 295 p. This thesis offers new insights into the historiographical value and significance of the annalistic chronicle, challenging the notion that it is only of limited use for the study of the Middle Ages. Far from being simple records of events, annals were sophisticated works, the product of discerning editorial decisions. Multiple levels of...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 216 p. In the reign of Edward I, when asked Quo Warranto - by what warrant he held his lands - John de Warenne, the 6th earl of Surrey, is said to have drawn a rusty sword, claiming "My ancestors came with William the Bastard, and conquered their lands with the sword, and I will defend them with the sword against anyone wishing to seize them"....
Windgather Press, 2017. — 232 p Hadrian Cook’s new account of the New Forest in southern England, provides an historical narrative of the occupation and use of a vast area that was, for centuries, important as a Royal Hunting Forest and subject to many contentious laws and regulations, but which includes much economically marginal land. Four critical themes are explored through...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 224 p. Yorkshire's past is replete with bloody battles and sieges. From the earliest times armies have marched across the Yorkshire countryside and have fought for control of the land, the towns and the cities. Roman, Viking, Norman and the Scottish invaders have all contributed ruthless episodes to the story. Christian fought pagan, Englishman fought...
Boydell Press, 2002. — 289 p.
Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet, display takes us directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of past societies. In this illustrated...
Liverpool University Press, 2007. — 263 p. Liverpool was founded in the Middle Ages, and as the city approaches its eight-hundredth anniversary,В this bookВ takes stock of LiverpoolвЂs scholarly contributions to modern understanding of the period. From the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, scholars from Liverpool have made pioneering advances in fields as diverse as...
Boydell Press, 2015. — 250 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 44). Provides a fine contribution to the rich history of the region, showing Evesham's place in the life of the medieval kingdom of England. In c.701, a minster was founded in the lower Avon Valley on a deserted promontory called Evesham. Over the next five hundred years it became a Benedictine abbey...
Birlinn, 2013. — 448 p. The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This unlikely combination of island and mainland territory survived as a single lordship for 600 years, against the odds. Growing out of the Viking...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 470 p. The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were complicated and accelerated by repeated episodes of invasion, migration and changes of...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 388 p. Though England was the emerging super-state in the medieval British Isles, its story is not the only one Britain can offer; there is a wider context of Britain in Europe, and the story of this period is one of how European Latin and French culture and ideals colonised the minds of all the British peoples. This engaging and accessible...
London: Routledge, 1992. — 313 p. David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristocracy by examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and 1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those years. A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a British, rather than Anglocentric, view - looking at the penetration of Welsh and Scottish society...
Routledge, 2016. — 182 p. The subject of outlawry in medieval and early modern English history has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. This volume helps to address this gap in scholarship and encourage further study of the subject by presenting a series of essays, based on original research and covering an extensive period of time.
Routledge, 2016. — 304 p. The importance of the themes of rulership and rebellion in the history of the Anglo-Norman world between 1066 and the early thirteenth century is incontrovertible. The power, government, and influence of kings, queens and other lords pervaded and dominated society and was frequently challenged and resisted. But while biographies of rulers, studies of...
London - New York: Routledge, 1996. – 257 p.
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Death had an important and pervasive presence in the middle ages. It was a theme in medieval public life, finding expression both in literature and art. The beliefs and procedures accompanying death were both complex and fascinating....
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 294 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198700500. This volume covers the history of the British Isles from the Vikings to the Norman conquest. Seven chapters contributed by an international team of leading historians cover key themes of this period such as monarchies and other political structures, economic developments, the Christianization of society, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 533 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-00343-9. This important study examines the market trade of medieval England by providing a wide-ranging critique of the moral and legal imperatives that underpinned retail trade. James Davis shows how market-goers were influenced not only by practical and economic considerations of price, quality, supply and demand,...
Hodder Education, 2016. — 128 p. Help your students achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this unique series from the leading History publisher; developed by expert educators who know how to instil deep subject knowledge and an appetite for lifelong learning. Provides distinct approaches to the different components of the 2016...
University of Toronto Press, 1987. — 244 p. Today, popular imagination peoples the Middle Ages with damsels in distress and knights riding to their rescue. Of such knights, King Arthur and his companions are the most celebrated. It is certainly true that this is the time when the Arthurian story took shape and Arthurian literature flourished, and that most medieval historians...
New York, Toronto, London, Auckland, Sidney: Scholastic Inc., 1993. — 36 p. — ISBN: 0-590-46377-2. Hundreds of years ago, in the Middle Ages, the nobles of Europe lived in large, well-protected castles.
Boydell Press, 2007. — 220 p. The peasant economy in north-east England, and indeed throughout the country as a whole, underwent many changes during the later Middle Ages, but owing to the lack of evidence it has been difficult to come to definite conclusions. This pioneering survey uses previously unexploited sources, principally from tithe data, to offer new interpretations...
Blackwell Publishing, 2002. — 174 p.
Everyone, it seems, has heard of Lady Godiva. To most people her name calls to mind an image of a naked woman on a horse. A smaller number are able to recall details of a story about Godiva’s ride: that it took place in medieval Coventry, that she did it at the instigation of her husband in order to alleviate an oppressive tax, that the...
Brill, 2022. — vi, 92 p. — (Religion and Psychology). This book brings together the disciplines of history and psychology. It is the first study to apply attachment theory to self-narratives of the past, namely examples of life-writing (letters and proto-autobiographies) from medieval England, written in broad religious contexts. It examines whether God could appear as an...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 274 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Fourth series 87). This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2003. — 336 p.
Everyday Life in Medieval England captures the day-to-day experience of people in the middle ages - the houses and settlements in which they lived, the food they ate, their getting and spending - and their social relationships. The picture that emerges is of great variety, of constant change, of movement and of enterprise. Many people were...
Yale University Press, 2002. - 415 p.
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...
Brill, 2025. — xxiv, 328 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). John Ponet (1516–1556) was a central figure in the English Reformation—an intellectual, ecclesiastical leader, and political thinker. This monograph revisits Ponet’s contributions to theology, humanism, and political theory, revealing his vital role in the Edwardian Reformation as a leading member of the...
Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1967. — 592 p. This is the first published study in English of the ideas and convictions of St. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, a major but unduly neglected figure of the English Renaissance and the Reformation and the clerical counterpart of the layman Thomas More. Chancellor of Cambridge University through three...
ABC-CLIO, 2022. — 275 p. The late medieval period in England was one rich with opportunities for women, who played fundamental roles in family businesses as well as in the peasant community and economy, and who wrote letters, created autobiographies, and documented their spiritual journeys. Their lives fit into a pattern of seasonal celebrations and rituals shaped, for the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 745 p. This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150 years. Covered are the full range of leading homes, from royal and episcopal...
University of Leicester, 2023. — 382 p. The question of how the earliest medieval towns emerged is often framed around a false dichotomy of top-down versus bottom up. To better appreciate the complex dynamics of early urban history, this thesis critiques simple narratives of urban foundation and linear causality to incorporate complexity into a narrative of urban emergence....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1909. — 112 p. Writers on arms and Armour have approached the subject from many points of \'ie\v, but, as all students know, their works are generally so large in size, or, what is more essential, in price, that for many who do not have access to large libraries it is impossible to learn much that is required. Then again, the papers of the Proceedings...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 565 p. Domesday Book contains the most comprehensive, varied and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the Common Law. This book argues that it can--and should--be read as a legal text. Stripped of its statistical information, Domesday Book contains a remarkable amount of legal material, almost all of which...
D.S. Brewer, 2016. — 254 p. The period from the twelfth century to the Wars of the Roses witnessed a dominant tradition of secular prophecy engaged with high political affairs, which this book charts, discussing the production of prophetic texts forecasting the rule of the whole of Britain by the kings of England. It draws on the prophetic works of familiar authors and names,...
D.S. Brewer, 2016. — 254 p. The period from the twelfth century to the Wars of the Roses witnessed a dominant tradition of secular prophecy engaged with high political affairs, which this book charts, discussing the production of prophetic texts forecasting the rule of the whole of Britain by the kings of England. It draws on the prophetic works of familiar authors and names,...
Greenwood Press, 2009. — 322 p. Experience the medieval world firsthand in this indispensable hands-on resource, and examine life as it was actually lived. The first book on medieval England to arise out of the living history movement, this volume allows readers to understand-and, if possible, recreate-what life was like for ordinary people in the days of Geoffrey Chaucer....
Brill, 2018. — 429 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 12). Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion. The volume also addresses the afterlives of objects and buildings in their temporal journeys from the Middle Ages to the...
Clarendon Press, 1995. — 280 p. All too often British history means English history and the histories of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland are left to scholars of the ‘Celtic Fringe’. In this clear and authoritative introduction to the medieval history of the British Isles, the four countries are viewed together, revealing the similarities and contrasts between the different...
Brill, 2019. — 349 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 11). This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and...
Routledge, 2016. — 334 p. The fighting bishop or abbot is a familiar figure to medievalists and much of what is known of the military organization of England in this period is based on ecclesiastical evidence. Unfortunately the fighting cleric has generally been regarded as merely a baron in clerical dress and has consequently fallen into the gap between military and...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003. — 238 p. The Battle Conference celebrated its quarter-centenary in 2002 in Glasgow, and this volume, while ranging from Norman Sicily to Scandinavia, has a particular focus on Scottish themes. There are six papers on aspects of Scottish history from the eleventh to the early thirteenth century: on kings and their followers, on the building...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004. — 189 p. The emphasis in this collection of recent work on the Anglo-Norman realm is particularly on narrative sources: Dudo, Vita Ædwardi Regis, monastic chronicle audiences in the Fens, the chronicles of Anjou, the Warenne view of the past - and much later sources for stereotypical images of the Normans. There are also papers analysing...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005. — 209 p. This volume contains the usual wide range of topics, and offers some unusual and provocative perspectives, including an examination of what the evidence of zooarchaeology can reveal about the Conquest. The other subjects discussed are the battle of Alençon; the impact of rebellion on Little Domesday; Lawrence of Durham; Thomas...
Oxford Paperbacks, 2000. — 192 p.
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages....
Boydell Press, 2012. — 208 p. England's relationship with the sea in the later middle ages has been unjustly neglected, a gap which this volume seeks to fill. The physical fact of the kingdom's insularity made the seas around England fundamentally important to its development within the British Isles and in relation to mainland Europe. At times they acted as barriers; but they...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2001. — 306 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 16). Monasteries were a dominant feature of the landscape of medieval England, but although much critical attention has been devoted to them, comparatively little has been written on the thirty abbeys of the English Premonstratensians[`White Canons'], a gap which this book, the first...
Yale University of Press, 2022. — 1001 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-26524-8 What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for us today—although their answers were often startlingly different. Shakespeare and his contemporaries believed the mind was governed by the humours and passions, and was susceptible...
Routledge, 2019. — 250 p. Originally published in 1965, 'English Medieval Pilgrimage' provides a detailed overview of the history of pilgrimage during the medieval period. The book looks at how the process of pilgrimage was more than a religious exercise, acting as a custom, a means of escape and a form of entertainment, as well as being an act of profound faith. The book...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 346 p. The history of great men and events is familiar to every schoolchild but the facts of everyday life in bygone eras remain a tantalizing mystery. Now Barbara Hanawalt has lifted the curtain on "the dark ages" and has provided an intimate view that seems surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. For the...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 317 p. London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistribution of goods from the continent made London one of the leading commercial cities of Europe. While capital for these ventures came from a variety of sources, the recirculation of...
The Boydell Press, 2005. — 356 p.
East Anglia was the most prosperous region of medieval England; far from being an isolated backwater, it had strong economic, religious and cultural connections with continental Europe, with Norwich for a time England's second city. The essays in this volume bring out the importance of the region during the middle ages. Spanning the late...
Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2007. — 320 p. By the time of the Conquest, the Normans had been established in Normandy for over a hundred and fifty years. They had transformed themselves from pagan Northmen into Christian princes; their territories extended from England, southern Italy and Sicily to distant Antioch, and their influence had spread throughout western Europe and the...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 272 p. This book surveys the most influential theoretical approaches adopted for the study of medieval economy and society. It offers an accessible introduction to medieval economic history, an up-to-date critique of established models, and a succinct treatise on historiographical method.
Boydell Press, 2004. — 401 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 22). Although hundreds of dependent priories were founded across medieval Europe, they remain little studied and much misunderstood. This first full-length study of the history of the 140 or so daughter houses of English monasteries takes issue with the orthodox opinion that they were primarily...
Cambridge University Press, 1976. — 344 p. The essays in this book, originally published in "Past and Present" over a period of fifteen years, are here collected together for the first time. Professor Hilton, the editor, has chosen them from a much larger pool of articles on medieval subjects in order to illustrate important themes in the history of later medieval England (from...
Pen & Sword History, 2024. — 304 p. Spread across the medieval kingdom of England in a network of often formidable strongholds, castles, like cathedrals, are defining landmarks of their age, dominating their settings, in many cases even to this day. By representing an essential aspect of our history and heritage, the interpretation of which is constantly being revised, they...
Pen & Sword History, 2024. — 304 p. Spread across the medieval kingdom of England in a network of often formidable strongholds, castles, like cathedrals, are defining landmarks of their age, dominating their settings, in many cases even to this day. By representing an essential aspect of our history and heritage, the interpretation of which is constantly being revised, they...
Boydell Press, 2017. — 385 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 46). The friaries of medieval London formed an important part of the city's physical and spiritual landscape between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. These urban monasteries housed 300 or more preacher-monks who lived an enclosed religious life and went out into the city to preach. The most...
Longman Publishing Group, 1990. — 291 p. This series on the towns and cities of Britain provides an introduction to the research in this field. Introduction: The English town in the Middle Ages. Towns in English Medieval Society. The English borough in the thirteenth century. The first half-century of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon. Small town society in England before the...
Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 96 p. Secret Barnstaple goes behind the façade of the familiar to discover the lesser-known aspects of the town’s fascinating past. Barnstaple has many secrets, and as you stroll down its paths you are walking through streets steeped in history. Home of a Norman mint and a medieval centre of the woollen trade in its heyday, the town has long been...
Boydell Press, 2015. — 196 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 27). In the twelfth century, a version of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" was rewritten at Peterborough Abbey, welding local history into an established framework of national events. This text has usually been regarded as an exception, a vernacular "Chronicle" written in a period dominated by Latin histories. This study, however,...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005. — 252 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 27). Contributions on fundamental aspects of medieval ecclesiastical history, demonstrating the importance of primary documents. The work of historians in providing new editions of primary documents, and other aids to research, has tended to go largely unsung, yet is crucial to...
The Boydell Press, 2019. — 245 p. This year's volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety of disciplines. There is a particular focus on the material culture of the Norman Conquest of England and its aftermath, from study of horses and knights to its archaeologies to castle construction and the representation of a chanson de geste...
Cornell University Press. 2003. — 376 p. Duels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and orderly British ways of settling differences. In this surprising work of social and legal history, Paul R. Hyams reveals a post-Conquest England not all that different from the realms across the Channel. Drawing on a wide range of...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 185 p. How can pottery studies contribute to the study of medieval archaeology? How do pots relate to documents, landscapes and identities? These are the questions addressed in this book which develops a new approach to the study of pottery in medieval archaeology. Utilising an interpretive framework which focuses upon the relationships between people,...
Manchester University Press, 2003. — 290 p. This is the first study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence to offer an important reconceptualization of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle...
Medieval Institute Publications, 2023. — 289 p. — (Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures). Susanna Fein’s long and distinguished scholarly career has helped to redefine how we understand the role of scribes and manuscripts from late medieval England. She has carried out groundbreaking research on seminal manuscripts (e.g., Harley 2253, the Thornton Manuscripts, John...
Hambledon Press, 1989. — 353 p. A collection of some essays, in honour of Pierre Chaplais, which examine England's foreign policies towards her neighbours between 1066 and 1453. Michael Jones is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the British Commission for Military History, and has taught at the University of South West England, Glasgow University, and...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 266 p. A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. This is the first book to systematically compare Westminster Abbey and the abbey of Saint-Denis--two of the most important...
University of North Carolina Press, 1980. — 340 p. A study of Northern England before, during and after the Norman conquest. The author explains the resistance of the Northumbria and York in geographical, historical and political terms. History between 1000 and 1135, with a discussion of peasant society before and after 1066.
McFarland, 2011. — 272 p. The medieval outlaws of Britain maintain a hold on the present-day imagination, judging by their presence in literature and on film. Exploring the nature of both historical and fictional outlaws, these twelve critical essays survey the literary, historical, and cultural environments that produced them, namely the medieval and early modern periods....
Routledge, 2019. — 232 p. Originally published in 1988, The Castles in England and Wales is a comprehensive treatment of the archaeology of the castles in England and Wales. The books looks at how following the Norman Conquest, one of the most characteristic structures of the English landscape, the castle, was used to control and survey the population. In its simplest...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 320 p. — (Europa im Mittelalter 37). Im Jahre 1232 gründete der englische König Heinrich III. die Domus Conversorum, das Haus der Konvertiten, vor den Mauern Londons. Diese in vielerlei Hinsicht einzigartige Institution verband die Fürsorge für zum Christentum konvertierte Juden mit der Gestaltung ihrer christlichen Zukunft. Doch auch jenseits der Domus...
Brepols Publishers, 2015. — 435 p. — (The Medieval Countryside 16). Professor Bruce Campbell's career has been devoted to providing systematic and highly influential studies of the medieval economy and society of the British Isles, including his innovative work on the role of the elites in defining medieval agricultural practices. This volume draws together essays from a...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. — 694 p. — (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 26). This volume draws together a series of papers that present some of the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England more broadly. In honour of one of early medieval European scholarship’s most illustrious doyennes, no less than twenty-nine...
Windgather Press, 2019. — 257 p. The Ancient Ways of Wessex tells the story of Wessex’s roads in the early medieval period, at the point at which they first emerge in the historical record. This is the age of the Anglo-Saxons and an era that witnessed the rise of a kingdom that was taken to the very brink of defeat by the Viking invasions of the ninth century. It is a period...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 296 p. Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 296 p. Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2006. — 187 p. The latest volume in the series concentrates, as always, on the half century before and the century after 1066, with papers which have many interconnections and range across different kinds of history. There is a particular focus on church history, with contributions on an Anglo-Saxon archiepiscopal manual, architecture and liturgy...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008. — 230 p. The 2007 conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, the thirtieth in the annual series, was held in Wales, and there is a Welsh flavour to the proceedings now published. Five of the thirteen papers cover Welsh topics in the long twelfth century: Church reform, political culture, the supposed resurgence of Powys as a political entity, and...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2009. — 195 p. The contemporary historians of Anglo-Norman England form a particular focus of this issue. There are contributions on Henry of Huntingdon's representation of civil war; on the political intent of the poems in the anonymous Life of Edward the Confessor; on William of Malmesbury's depiction of Henry I; and on the influence upon...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010. — 254 p. Table of contents: The Peace of God and Bishops at War in the Gallic Lands from the Late Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century (R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture) Dominique Barthélemy (translated by Graham Robert Edwards) Ad erudiendum tradidit: The Upbringing of Angevin Comital Children Kathryn Dutton Coming and Going: The Use of...
The Boydell Press, 2011. — 212 p. The latest volume of Battle Conference proceedings emphasizes the European range and interdisciplinarity of the series. It opens with Anne Duggan's R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture for 2010, on the effects of Pope Alexander III's so-called "marriage legislation" in England. Norman history is covered by chapters on the detailed account of Robert...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 297 p. Shakespeare’s Henry IV lamented ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown’. It was true of that king’s reign and of many others before and after. From Hereward the Wake’s guerilla war, resisting the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror, through the Anarchy, the murder of Thomas Beckett, the rebellions of Henry II’s sons, the deposition...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1995. — 337 p. A unique recovery of the history of women's lives in England during the medieval period basing its scholarship on primary sources and not on the 19th century assumptions underlying most studies of the period. Leyser (medieval history, St. Peter's College and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford) describes women's contributions to their society from the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 277 p. — (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History). * Identifies a vigorous and complex tradition of urban citizenship in late medieval England * Explores the history of English cities over a period of 300 years * Offers a challenge to the myth of English exceptionalism, by placing English cities in a wider European context and drawing upon...
Cambridge University Press, 1977. — 363 p. This book is the first comprehensive account of the wool trade through the whole of the medieval period. Within England it is concerned with the production and marketing of wool and with the ways in which the wool trade influenced the economic and political fortunes of different sectors of society. It describes and analyses in detail...
Routledge, 2022. — 186 p. The cult of the saints was central to medieval Christianity largely due to the miraculous. Saints were members of the elect of heaven and could intercede with God on the behalf of supplicants. Whilst people visited shrines and prayed to the saints for many reasons it was the hope of intercession and the praise of miracles past which drove the cult of...
Routledge, 2022. — 186 p. The cult of the saints was central to medieval Christianity largely due to the miraculous. Saints were members of the elect of heaven and could intercede with God on the behalf of supplicants. Whilst people visited shrines and prayed to the saints for many reasons it was the hope of intercession and the praise of miracles past which drove the cult of...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011. — 222 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 39). Lawmen were crucial to the economic wellbeing of medieval nunneries; this book looks at the relationship between them and how cases were conducted. In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their...
Windgather Press, 2021. — 311 p. The British countryside is on the brink of change. With the withdrawal of EU subsidies, threats of US style factory farming and the promotion of ‘rewilding’ initiatives, never before has so much uncertainty and opportunity surrounded our landscape. How we shape our prospective environment can be informed by bygone practice, as well as through...
Historic England in association with Liverpool University Press, 1996. — 236 p. Presents a study of the remains of twelfth- to seventeenth-century ships and boats from the port of London. Using evidence from the vessels, from waterfronts, and from contemporary manuscripts this book presents the design, construction, and use of these ancient vessels.
D.S. Brewer, 2021. — 225 p. From the tenth to the twelfth centuries in England and Scotland we have scant evidence of women writing. How, then, can we access these women experiences? This book argues that by analysing texts deliberately written for and addressed directly to women we gain an insight into the horizons of possibility for their lives. It examines religious texts...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 312 p. Through an examination of 255 places in England, Professor McIntosh argues against the suggestion that social regulation was a distinctive feature of the decades around 1600, resulting from Puritanism, and demonstrates that concern with wrongdoing mounted gradually between 1370 and 1600. This trail-breaking study of how English people...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 258 p. Conflicts over treason tormented English political society in the later Middle Ages. As legal and political historians have shown, treason was always a constitutional matter as well as a legal one because it was pivotal in mediating the relationship between English kings, their political subjects and the abstraction of the crown. However, despite...
Oxford: McFarland & Company, 2016. — 271 p. Magic is no doubt as old as humanity itself, but the actual word is derived from Persian magos, first used around 500 BCE in an inscription written by Darius the Great to denote a Zoroastrian priest. In classical antiquity, the word “magic” applied first of all to the arts of the magi of Persia, who were known to the Greeks by at...
Boydell Press, 2001. — 352 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 17). In the late medieval churches of the former deanery of Dunwich there are many features which were provided by testamentary gifts; this study of three thousand wills from fifty-two Suffolk parishes, written between 1370 and 1547, records such material and spiritual bequests. Many purchased prayer...
Brill, 2024. — xii, 254 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 23). The medieval treasure house, consisting of sacristy, vestry and treasure rooms was the depository for the ecclesiastical treasure belonging to a church, holy vessels, vestments, altar hangings, candlesticks and priceless liturgical books and reliquaries. It was carefully designed to...
ABC-CLIO, 2016. — 264 p. Voices of Medieval England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life provides a broad selection of primary documents that are appropriate in level and content for a variety of readers. It includes dozens of primary document excerpts that illustrate important elements of daily life during the medieval period. Each document is...
Birlinn Ltd, 2007. — 320 p. Only one period in history is immediately, indelibly and uniquely linked to the whole area of the Scottish and English Border country, and that is the time of the Reivers. Whenever anyone mentions 'Reiver', no-one hesitates to add 'Border'. It is an inextricable association, and rightly so. Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era, or indeed in Europe,...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 256 p. In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England’s reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some of the most infamous usurper kings to come out of medieval England include William the Conqueror, Stephen of...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 256 p. In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England's reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some of the most infamous usurper kings to come out of medieval England include William the Conqueror, Stephen of...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 256 p. In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England’s reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some of the most infamous usurper kings to come out of medieval England include William the Conqueror, Stephen of...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 256 p. In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England’s reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some of the most infamous usurper kings to come out of medieval England include William the Conqueror, Stephen of...
Amberley Publishing, 2016. — 352 p. The medieval era is often associated with dynastic struggles, gruesome wars and the formidable influence of the Church. But what about the everyday experience of the royal subjects and common people? Here, alongside the coronations, diplomatic dealings and key battles, can be found the fabric of medieval life as it was really lived, in its folk...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 176 p. Imagine you were transported back in time to Medieval England and had to start a new life there. Without mobile phones, ipads, internet, and social media networks, when transport means walking or, if you’re fortunate, horseback, how will you know where you are or what to do? Where will you live? What is there to eat? What shall you wear? How can...
University of London Press, 2019. — xxiv, 354 p. — (IHR Conference Series). — ISBN: 978-1-912702-14-5, 978-1-912702-15-2, 978-1-912702-16-9. Medieval Londoners were a diverse group, some born in the city, and others drawn to the capital from across the realm and from overseas. For some, London became the sole focus of their lives, while others retained or developed networks and...
Routledge, 2020. — 302 p. The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the Black Death. Drawing on a...
Routledge, 2020. — 302 p. The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the Black Death. Drawing on a...
Cornell University Press, 2017. — 248 p. Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from ancient writings outside of the bible. Circulating in Latin and Hebrew adaptations and translations, these included the two independent versions of the Testament of Naphtali in which the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 410 p. Scholarship on early medieval England has seen an exponential increase in scholarly work by and about women over the past twenty years, but the field has remained peculiarly resistant to the transformative potential of feminist critique. Since 2016, Medieval Studies has been rocked by conversations about the state of the field,...
The History Press, 2014. — 272 p. She Wolves is a history of the 'bad girls' of England's medieval royal dynasties - the queens who earned themselves the reputation of being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biographies - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France and Anne Boleyn, for example - while others have not been...
Yale University Press, 2004. — 268 p. In medieval Europe, falconry was perhaps the most popular form of hunting among the aristocracy. Owning a falcon, and the necessary falconer to go with it, was a status symbol throughout the middle ages. This book is the first broad history of English royal falconry in medieval times, a book that draws on forty years of research to provide a...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 496 p. An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century. Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 496 p. An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century. Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who...
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. — 320 p. This book provides a vivid and accessible history of first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages. Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the kingdom, settling in the countryside as well as in towns, taking work...
Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1943. — 211 p. Sidney Painter explores the Angevin and Plantagenet baronage by surveying the methods that barons used to increase their prestige. His book challenges the traditional view of the Hundred Years' War as pivotal to the transition from twelfth-century lords and vassals to the nobility of the fifteenth century; from Painter's...
The Teaching Company, 2010. — 216 p. The story of England in the Middle Ages is fascinating and varied, full of colorful characters. But it is also inherently important to a Western—even global—audience, because we are all heirs of medieval England in one way or another, whatever our own ethnic heritage may be. The distinctive development of the English state as a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2003. — 248 p. Intimate details about the personal lives of medieval people are frustratingly rare. We seldom know what the men and women of the middle ages thought about marriage, let alone about sex. The records of the church courts of the province of York, mainly dating from the fourteenth century, provides a welcome light on private, family life and on...
Brill, 2021. — 384 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 20). This volume captures the complexity and diversity of ideas surrounding the life course in early medieval English culture, with chapters ranging across the interconnected realms of language, culture, medicine, onomastics, literature and the material world.
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2009. — 188 p. Gothic Kings of Britain is a biographical history describing the institution of monarchy as the central governing authority in the kingdoms of England and Scotland. The narrative recounts the dramatic and chaotic span of the four hundred years between 1000 and 1400, a period during which the great European monarchies were in...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 357 p. — ISBN 9780521458283. — ISBN 0-521-45828-5. This original and pioneering book examines the role of the castle in the Norman conquest of England and in the subsequent administration of the country. The castle is seen primarily as an instrument of peaceful administration which rarely had a garrison and was more often where the sheriff...
Yale University Press, 1996. — 405 p. While medieval military life is sometimes pictured in terms of knights in armour with splendid coats of arms, the reality more often consisted of men struggling against cold and damp and against elusive foes who refused to do battle. In this book, Michael Prestwich re-creates the experience of medieval warfare, examining how English...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 225 p. In-depth examinations of the role played by liberties across the British Isles. The liberties and franchises of medieval England have been a neglected area of study in recent years, yet they were an important aspect of government and society, providing an influential basis of collective awareness, aspiration and loyalty. The papers in this volume...
Continnuum, 1981. — 560 p. The English Parliament in the Middle Ages is a collection of 26 essays written by historians H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles between 1925 and 1967. These essays - some collaborative, and some written individually by Richardson and Sayles - illuminate various aspects of English parliamentary history, beginning with the origins of parliament. Brought...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. - 492 p. - (The Northern World 49).
This book provides an evocative insight into the property, power, remarriage, and identity of high-ranking widows in two fundamentally different societies, Iceland and Yorkshire. The legal position of widows in each region is examined in light of evidence from charters, royal records and sagas to establish a...
Oxbow Books, 2008. — 596 p. The last half century has seen many studies of the origin of the English village. As a cross-disciplinary enquiry this book integrates materials from geography, history, economic history, archaeology, place-name studies, anthropology and even church architecture. These provide varied foundations, but the underlying subject matter always engages with...
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 295 p. — (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West). Commemorating John Moorman's immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moorman's diverse writings on biography, hagiography, history, art, and prosopography. Contributors draw upon Moorman's diaries and his materials for...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 312 p. This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England. Concentrating on the relatively well-documented centuries between 1100 and 1500, it draws on a variety of written evidence for this significant and dynamic period of urban development. Taking account of recent research on material and social aspects of...
London. Longman Green and Co. 1892. — 475 p. The anarchy of Stephen`s reign ( 1135 -1154 ) was a particularly turbulent period of English history in which the two claimants for the throne , Stephen and the Empress Maud, struggled through long and chaotic years neither being able to achieve the ascendancy. Every Baron became a despot in his own locality and none more so than...
Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. — 242 p. — ISBN 9781409405818, ISBN-13 9781409405825. St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London. It was the mother church of the diocese, a principal landowner in the capital and surrounding countryside, and a theatre for the enactment of events of national importance. The cathedral was also a...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. — 230 p. Between the Celtic tribe of the Iron Age-the Cantiaci-and the twenty-first-century inhabitants of Canterbury, three millenia stand during which the city has enjoyed unparalleled fame, particularly since it became the religious heart of the country in CE 597. While ambling through the streets of modern Canterbury, one is able to-if...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 379 p. This study develops our understanding of medieval society through an examination of its charitable activities. In a detailed study of the forms in which relief was organised in medieval Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, the book unravels the economic and demographic factors which created the need for relief as well as the forms in which the...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 285 p. — (Winchester Studies 4/The Anglo-Saxon Minsters of Winchester 3). Winchester in the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods was an important royal and religious centre. Property and Piety comprises an edition and translation, with extensive commentary, of thirty-three Anglo-Saxon and Norman documents relating to the topography and minsters of early...
Peter Lang, 2013. — 275 p. Outlawry, Governance, and Law in Medieval England evaluates the role of exclusionary practices, namely outlawry, in law and governance in England from the tenth through the thirteenth centuries. Traditional historical narratives dismiss exile, outlawry, and banishment as ineffective and weak methods of maintaining social order. More specifically, the...
Harvard University Press, 2011. — 416 p. Popular views of medieval chivalry—knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements—were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book to explore chivalry’s place within a wider history of medieval England, from the Norman Conquest to the aftermath of Henry VII’s triumph at Bosworth in...
Harvard University Press, 2011. — 416 p. Popular views of medieval chivalry—knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements—were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book to explore chivalry’s place within a wider history of medieval England, from the Norman Conquest to the aftermath of Henry VII’s triumph at Bosworth in the...
Routledge, 2020. — 505 p. 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...
Ohio State University Press, 2016. — 302 p. If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the law? Is not the law the most human, if not indeed the human, institution? In proposing that all life in medieval Britain, whether animal or...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 290 p. Peasants and historians is an examination of historical discussion of the medieval English peasantry. In this book, the first such study of its kind, the author traces the development of historical research aimed at exploring the nature of peasant society. The opening chapters discuss initial work in this area by nineteenth- and early...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 210 p. The history of English rule in Ireland stretches back to the twelfth century. This book examines the actions of the earliest English settlers in Ireland and asks a number of questions about the society they developed there. Why did these people come to Ireland? How did they interact with the native Irish neighbors? What was the nature of...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. — 268 p. — (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern). In Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549, Sebastian Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition, along with its association with Lancastrian political ideas of consensual government, generated a vernacular...
Oxford University Press, 1987. - 333 p. At the turn of the fourteenth century, the Hollands were a knightly family of no great import in Lancashire. In 1475, Henry Holland died as the Lancastrian claimant to the throne. Such a transformation, in itself, deserves explanation. This will reveal the dramatic rise of a family through the beneficence of noble and then royal patronage...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 304 p. This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 304 p. This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in...
University of Exeter Press, 2015. — 691 p. The city of Exeter was one of the great provincial capitals of late medieval and early modern England and possessed a range of civic amenities fully commensurate with its size and importance. Among the most impressive of these was its highly sophisticated water supply system. Beautifully illustrated, Water in the City reveals the story of...
Routledge, 2020. — 276 p. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Normans had a formative influence on the development of states and societies in the British Isles, southern Italy and the Levant. Their achievements still resonate powerfully today, and represent a vital field of historical study. But how far did colonial elites define themselves as Norman, and to what extent...
Pen & Sword History, 2022. — 288 p. The ninth century Historia Brittonum is the first source that mentions Arthur and lists twelve battles, including the famous Badon Hill. Much ink has been spilt debating the identity and location of Arthur. This book will demonstrate that some of the battles can indeed be located with some confidence. Rather than fit a specific theory as to...
Pen & Sword History, 2022. — 288 p. The ninth century Historia Brittonum is the first source that mentions Arthur and lists twelve battles, including the famous Badon Hill. Much ink has been spilt debating the identity and location of Arthur. This book will demonstrate that some of the battles can indeed be located with some confidence. Rather than fit a specific theory as to...
Pen & Sword Military, 2022. — 240 p. The entertaining 2004 film, King Arthur, introduced many to the relatively recent theory that the legend of King Arthur is linked to a Roman officer of the second century, Lucius Artorius Castus. It is claimed a group of Sarmatian ‘knights’ posted to Britain around the same time lent some of their traditions and myths to the later legend. To...
Pen & Sword Military, 2022. — 240 p. The entertaining 2004 film, King Arthur, introduced many to the relatively recent theory that the legend of King Arthur is linked to a Roman officer of the second century, Lucius Artorius Castus. It is claimed a group of Sarmatian ‘knights’ posted to Britain around the same time lent some of their traditions and myths to the later legend. To...
Pen & Sword Military, 2022. — 240 p. The entertaining 2004 film, King Arthur, introduced many to the relatively recent theory that the legend of King Arthur is linked to a Roman officer of the second century, Lucius Artorius Castus. It is claimed a group of Sarmatian ‘knights’ posted to Britain around the same time lent some of their traditions and myths to the later legend. To...
Routledge, 2016. — 948 p. First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the...
Routledge, 2016. — 948 p. First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the...
Routledge, 2016. — 948 p. First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 272 p. Appointing a parson to the local church following a vacancy - an "advowson" - was one of the most important rights in medieval England. The king, the monasteries, and local landowners all wanted to control advowsons because they meant political, social, and economic influence. The question of law turned on who had the superior legal claim...
Routledge, 2022. — 288 p. Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c. 500–c. 1600, with the major focus from the eleventh century onward. Theilmann blends historical research, using a variety of primary sources, with an understanding of disease drawn from current scientific...
Windgather Press, 2006. — 224 p. The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the tinworks and strip fields; and above all, the intricately worked counterpane of hedgebanks and winding lanes. Between...
Windgather Press, 2006. — 224 p. The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the tinworks and strip fields; and above all, the intricately worked counterpane of hedgebanks and winding lanes. Between...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 464 p. In "England in Europe, Elizabeth "Muir Tyler focuses on two histories: the "Encomium Emmae Reginae", written for Emma the wife of the Aethelred II and Cnut, and "The Life of King Edward", written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor. Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and reveals how the two...
Leicester University Press, 2000. — 288 p. Social identity is a concept od increasing importance in the social sciences. Here, the concept is applied to the often atheoretical realm of medieval studies. Each contributor focuses on a particular topic of early medieval identity - ethnicity, national identity, social location, subjectivity/personhood, political organization, kiship,...
Ashgate, 2003. — 288 p. Medieval Englishmen were treacherous, rebellious and killed their kings, as their French contemporaries repeatedly noted. In the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries, ten kings faced serious rebellion, in which eight were captured, deposed, and/or murdered. One other king escaped open revolt but encountered vigorous resistance. In this book, Professor...
Routledge, 2003. — 288 p. Medieval Englishmen were treacherous, rebellious and killed their kings, as their French contemporaries repeatedly noted. In the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries, ten kings faced serious rebellion, in which eight were captured, deposed, and/or murdered. One other king escaped open revolt but encountered vigorous resistance. In this book,...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2015. — 314 p. The latest research on aspects of the Anglo-Norman world. The contributions collected here demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period, from a variety of different angles and disciplines. Topics include architecture and material remains in Winchester, Kent and Hampshire; the role of Duke...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017. — 258 p. Anglo-Norman Studies is nothing if not wide-ranging. One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new material, new angles. This year's volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety of disciplines. Topics include the forging of the Battle Abbey...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2018. — 238 p. The wide-ranging articles collected here represent the cutting edge of recent Anglo-Norman scholarship. Topics include English kingship, legends of the Battle of Bouvines, ideas of empire, the practicalities of child kingship, and female rulership in Brittany. The volume continues in its proud tradition of source analysis: there are...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 272 p Up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the Arthurian legend, using both fact and fiction to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of early and medieval Britain. An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the Arthurian phenomenon - the imaginary and historical world of the great British warlord and one of the huge...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 272 p Up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the Arthurian legend, using both fact and fiction to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of early and medieval Britain. An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the Arthurian phenomenon - the imaginary and historical world of the great British warlord and one of the huge...
D.S. Brewer Publishing, 2013. — 202 p. Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England. Inquisition in medieval and early modern England has typically been the subject of historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader role in medieval...
Routledge, 2013. — 202 p. First published 1992. This vivid and pioneering study illuminates the different roles played in late medieval society by noblewomen - the most substantial group of women to survive as individuals in medieval documents. They emerge (despite limited political opportunities) as figures of consequence themselves in a landowning society through estate...
Hambledon Continuum, 2006. — 302 p. Medieval women faced many of the problems of their modern counterparts in bringing up their families, balancing family and work, and responding to the demands of their communities. Of many women in the period of a thousand years before 1500 we know little or nothing, though their typical ways of life, on farms or in the towns, can be...
Hambledon Continuum, 2006. — 302 p. Medieval women faced many of the problems of their modern counterparts in bringing up their families, balancing family and work, and responding to the demands of their communities. Of many women in the period of a thousand years before 1500 we know little or nothing, though their typical ways of life, on farms or in the towns, can be...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 272 p. The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-1327) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king’s chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps, lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great influence, and Hugh the Younger’s greed and tyranny brought down a king for the first...
Johns Hopkins University, 2017. — 321 p. The legendary history of Britain’s first kings was given full form around 1138, when Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) introduced Anglo-Norman England to Brutus, the purported great-grandson of Aeneas and eponymous founder of Britain. Brutus—whose descendants included King Lear, Cymbeline,...
Enthralling History. — 2022. — 206 p. Enthralling History Book. We believe that learning history should be an enthralling experience. If you want to discover the enthralling history of medieval England, then keep reading... Knights, monks, kings, plague, war, Vikings, revolts, and so much more appear in the six hundred or so years known as the medieval period of English...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 184 p. 1066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings, which altered the entire course of English history. The French-speaking Normans were the pre-eminent warriors of the 11th century and based their entire society around conflict....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 293 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4411-8147-3. The landscape of medieval England was the product of a multitude of hands. While the power to shape the landscape inevitably lay with the Crown, the nobility and the religious houses, this study also highlights the contribution of the peasantry in the layout of rural settlements and ridge-and-furrow field works, and...
Robinson Publishing, 2009. — 234 p. Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master. The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the urban elite. The stories of Roger ‘the Raker’ who drowned in his own...
Robinson Publishing, 2009. — 234 p. Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master. The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the urban elite. The stories of Roger ‘the Raker’ who drowned in his own...
Robinson Publishing, 2009. — 234 p. Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master. The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the urban elite. The stories of Roger ‘the Raker’ who drowned in his...
Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi. 1929. Bd. 44. P. 500–511 In the »Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum» (ed. Schmeidler p. 84) the following somewhat mystifying statement is made: »Anglia, ut supra diximus et in Gestis Anglorum scribitur, post mortem Gudredi a filiis eius Analaph, Sigerih et Reginold per annos fere C permansit in ditione Danorum. Tunc vero Haroldus Hiring...
Routledge, 1963. — 376 p. This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation. The period covered is the century and a half between 1191 and the beginnings of...
London, UK: William Collins, 2019. — 122p., maps, illus. Viking Britain author Thomas Williams returns with a brief history of the interaction between the Vikings and the British to tell the story of the occupation of London. The Vikings remoulded the world, changed the language, and upended the dynamics of power and trade. Monasteries and settlements burned, ancient dynasties...
Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — London: University of London, 2012. — 292 p. In the history of crime and punishment the prisons of medieval London have generally been overlooked. This may have been because none of the prison records have survived for this period, yet there is enough information in civic and royal documents, and through archaeological...
Routledge, 2019. — 324 p. Originally published in 1971, The Royal Demesne in English History shows how Norman and Angevin kings were able to regard the whole of their English kingdom as their royal demesne in the continental medieval sense. The book argues that only through the later loss of their continental possessions were they compelled to show interest in creating special...
Brill Academic Pub, 2009. — 481 p. — (The Northern World 45).
Modern sensibilities have clouded historical views of slavery, perhaps, more so than any other medieval social institution. Anachronistic economic rationales and notions about the progression of European civilisation have immeasurably distorted our view of slavery in the medieval context. As a result historians have...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. — 230 p. The distinction between the forest and the trees is fundamental to this study, for the royal forest of medieval England was a complex institution with legal, political, economic, and social significance. To protect the "beasts of the forest" and their habitat, initially for the king's hunting and later for economic exploitation,...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 272 p. Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics,...
Диафильм. — М.: Студия "Диафильм" Госкино СССР, 1990. — 48 с. Диафильм создан по программе средней образовательной школы. История средневековой Англии для VII класса.
СПб.: Сенатская типография, 1911. — 366 с.
В книге выдающегося историка П.Г. Виноградова (1854-1925) проводится всестороннее исследование развития средневекового английского поместья как социального института, проходящего через все стадии английской истории. По мнению автора, несмотря на то что английское поместье является чисто британским институтом, оно стало лучшим примером...
Учебное пособие. — К.: Атика, 2005. — 324 с. — ISBN 966-326-098-X. В книге описываются политическая история, общество и культура британских кельтов с древности до конца средневековья. Рассматриваются: процесс переселения кельтов на Британские острова, островное общество и культура железного века, племенная структура, период римского господства и англосаксонское завоевание....
Учебное пособие. — Киев: Атика, 2005. — 324 с. — ISBN 966-326-098-X. В книге описываются политическая история, общество и культура британских кельтов с древности до конца средневековья. Рассматриваются: процесс переселения кельтов на Британские острова, островное общество и культура железного века, племенная структура, период римского господства и англосаксонское завоевание....
СПб.: Евразия, 2007. — 283 с. — (Clio Cotidiana). — ISBN 978-5-8071-0166-9. Во втором издании монографии комплексно рассматриваются наиболее существенные проблемы развития раннесредневековой Англии (V – середина XI в.). В центре внимания автора находится эволюция важнейших хозяйственно-экономических, социально-политических и духовных институтов англосаксонского общества на...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2007. — 176 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN: 978-5-91419-018-4. Автор затрагивает малоисследованные в отечественной историографии проблемы политической истории Англии на рубеже раннего и классического Средневековья, помещая их в контекст общеисторического развития всего северо-западного региона Европы. Большое внимание уделяется англо-скандинавским отношениям и...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2021. — 686 с. — ISBN 978-5-00139-079-4. Первые короли династии Плантагенетов унаследовали от своих предков-норманнов залитое кровью царство и превратили его в империю, простиравшуюся от Шотландии до Палестины. В этой эпической хронике мужества, предательства, амбиций и обмана Дэн Джонс воскрешает непокорную королевскую династию, каждый представитель...
СПб.: Евразия, 2014. — 320 с. — (Clio). — ISBN 978-5-91852-092-5. Перед вами – книга о повседневной жизни в средневековой Англии, стране, всегда занимавшей особое место среди государств Западной Европы. Л. Ф. Зальцман, известный историк-медиевист, написал о самых значимых проблемах средневековой повседневности – домашнем быте, преступлении и наказании, войнах, путешествиях,...
СПб.: Евразия, 2014. — 320 с. — (Clio). — ISBN 978-5-91852-092-5. Перед вами – книга о повседневной жизни в средневековой Англии, стране, всегда занимавшей особое место среди государств Западной Европы. Л. Ф. Зальцман, известный историк-медиевист, написал о самых значимых проблемах средневековой повседневности – домашнем быте, преступлении и наказании, войнах, путешествиях,...
СПб.: Евразия, 2014. — 320 с. — (Clio). — ISBN 978-5-91852-092-5. Перед вами – книга о повседневной жизни в средневековой Англии, стране, всегда занимавшей особое место среди государств Западной Европы. Л. Ф. Зальцман, известный историк-медиевист, написал о самых значимых проблемах средневековой повседневности – домашнем быте, преступлении и наказании, войнах, путешествиях,...
СПб.: Евразия, 2014. — 320 с. — (Clio). — ISBN 978-5-91852-092-5. Перед вами – книга о повседневной жизни в средневековой Англии, стране, всегда занимавшей особое место среди государств Западной Европы. Л. Ф. Зальцман, известный историк-медиевист, написал о самых значимых проблемах средневековой повседневности – домашнем быте, преступлении и наказании, войнах, путешествиях,...
Пер. с англ. Ковалева Т.В. — СПб.: Евразия, 2002. — 420 с. — ISBN: 5-8071-0049-2. В этом издании объединены две работы английских ученых, супругов Марджори и Чарльза Квеннеллов: "Повседневная жизнь в Англии во времена англосаксов, викингов, норманнов" и "История повседневности в Англии: 1066-1499 гг. ", посвященные одной тематике и выдерживающие хронологическую...
Пер. с англ. Ковалева Т.В. — СПб.: Евразия, 2002. — 384 с. — ISBN 5-8071-0049-2. В этом издании объединены две работы английских ученых, супругов Марджори и Чарльза Квеннеллов: "Повседневная жизнь в Англии во времена англосаксов, викингов, норманнов" и "История повседневности в Англии: 1066-1499 гг. ", посвященные одной тематике и выдерживающие хронологическую...
Пер. с англ. Ковалева Т.В. — СПб.: Евразия, 2002. — 420 с. — ISBN: 5-8071-0049-2. В этом издании объединены две работы английских ученых, супругов Марджори и Чарльза Квеннеллов: "Повседневная жизнь в Англии во времена англосаксов, викингов, норманнов" и "История повседневности в Англии: 1066-1499 гг. ", посвященные одной тематике и выдерживающие хронологическую...
Пер. с англ. Т. Ковалевой. — СПб.: Евразия, 2002. — 384 с. — ISBN 5-8071-0049-2. В настоящем издании мы объединили две работы английских ученых, супругов Марджори и Чарльза Квеннеллов: «Повседневная жизнь в Англии во времена англосаксов, викингов, норманнов» и «История повседневности в Англии: 1066-1499 гг.», посвященные одной тематике и выдерживающие хронологическую...
М.: Госучпедгиз министерства просвещения РСФСР, 1959. — 358 с. Издание является учебным пособием и представляет собой сборник очерков по истории Англии Средних веков и Нового времени (до 1918 года). Англия в Средние века Англия в дофеодальный и раннефеодальный период Нормандское завоевание Англии Великая хартия вольностей и начало парламента Социально-экономическое развитие...
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1960. — 304 с.
Монография посвящена ранней истории английских средневековых городов и городскому ремеслу X-XII вв. На обширном материале разнообразных источников - законодательных памятников, грамот, хроник, королевских хартий, переписи 1086 г., казначейских свитков и других - автор раскрывает специфику процесса отделения ремесла от сельского хозяйства и...
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1960. — 304 с.
Монография посвящена ранней истории английских средневековых городов и городскому ремеслу X-XII вв. На обширном материале разнообразных источников - законодательных памятников, грамот, хроник, королевских хартий, переписи 1086 г., казначейских свитков и других - автор раскрывает специфику процесса отделения ремесла от сельского хозяйства и...
Учебное пособие. — М.: КДУ, 2007. — 340 с.; ил., табл. — ISBN: 978-5-98227-186-0. Учебное пособие предлагает последовательное изложение истории Англии на протяжении двенадцати веков с акцентированием внимания на переломных событиях и дискуссионных проблемах. Использован принцип периодизации по династиям английских королей. Кроме основного текста даны список источников и...
М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 336 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-72804-6. Представьте, что машина времени перенесла вас в четырнадцатый век… Что вы видите? Как одеваетесь? Как зарабатываете на жизнь? Сколько вам платят? Что вы едите? Где живете? Автор книг, доктор исторических наук Ян Мортимер, раз и навсегда изменит ваш взгляд на средневековую Англию, показав, что историю можно изучить, окунувшись...
М.: Эксмо, 2015. — 336 с. — (Путешественники во времени). — ISBN: 978-5-699-80637-7. Представьте, что машина времени перенесла вас в четырнадцатый век… Что вы видите? Как одеваетесь? Как зарабатываете на жизнь? Сколько вам платят? Что вы едите? Где живете? Автор книг, доктор исторических наук Ян Мортимер, раз и навсегда изменит ваш взгляд на средневековую Англию, показав, что...
М.: Эксмо, 2015. — 336 с. — (Путешественники во времени). — ISBN: 978-5-699-80637-7. Представьте, что машина времени перенесла вас в четырнадцатый век… Что вы видите? Как одеваетесь? Как зарабатываете на жизнь? Сколько вам платят? Что вы едите? Где живете? Автор книг, доктор исторических наук Ян Мортимер, раз и навсегда изменит ваш взгляд на средневековую Англию, показав, что...
М.: Эксмо, 2015. — 374 с. Представьте, что машина времени перенесла вас в четырнадцатый век… Что вы видите? Как одеваетесь? Как зарабатываете на жизнь? Сколько вам платят? Что вы едите? Где живете? Автор книг, доктор исторических наук Ян Мортимер, раз и навсегда изменит ваш взгляд на средневековую Англию, показав, что историю можно изучить, окунувшись в нее и увидев все своими...
М.: Эксмо, 2015. — 374 с. Представьте, что машина времени перенесла вас в четырнадцатый век… Что вы видите? Как одеваетесь? Как зарабатываете на жизнь? Сколько вам платят? Что вы едите? Где живете? Автор книг, доктор исторических наук Ян Мортимер, раз и навсегда изменит ваш взгляд на средневековую Англию, показав, что историю можно изучить, окунувшись в нее и увидев все своими...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 170 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 978-5-00165-237-3. Учебное пособие предназначено для помощи обучающимся в освоении учебного курса «Британский мир в Средние века». Цель курса «Британский мир в Средние века» – получение обучающимися знаний о ключевых проблемах развития Британии как особого этнокультурного региона средневековой Европы в период V–XVI веков.
М.: Государственное Социально-Экономическое издательство, 1937. — 232 с. В монографии исследуется история Англии в средние века: процесс становления общества и элиты, период норманнского завоевания, принятие Великой Хартии Вольностей, политическая борьба во второй половине XIII века. От автора От издательства Предисловие Введение. Феодализм и современная историческая наука...
М.: Государственное Социально-Экономическое издательство, 1937. — 232 с. В монографии исследуется история Англии в средние века: процесс становления общества и элиты, период норманнского завоевания, принятие Великой Хартии Вольностей, политическая борьба во второй половине XIII века. От автора От издательства Предисловие Введение. Феодализм и современная историческая наука...
Пер. с англ. И. И. Хазановой, под ред. 3. Ю. Метлицкой. — СПб.; М., Евразия ; Клио, 2014. — 336 с., 16 с. цв. илл. — ISBN 978-5-91852-052-9 ISBN 978-5-906518-03-3. В истории Англии найдется немного дат, которые сравнились бы по насыщенности событий и их последствиями с 1066 годом, когда изменился сам ход политического развития британских островов и Северной Европы. После смерти...
М.: Армада-пресс, 2001. — 164 с.
ISBN: 5-309-00154-9.
Книга рассказывает об истории лондонского Тауэра - самого древнего из европейских замков и тюрем, отметившего в 1978 году свое 900-летие. Читатель узнает о судьбах знаменитых узников, громких судебных процессах, кровавых драмах, разыгравшихся в его стенах. Книга написана хорошим литературным языком, снабжена иллюстративным...
Изд. 2-е, дополн. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2005. — 203 с.: ил. — (Рах Britannica). — ISBN: 5-89329-264-2. В книге изложена история Англии с древнейших времён до начала XVII в. Структура пособия соответствует основным периодам исторического развития страны: Британия в древности и раннее средневековье, нормандское завоевание и Англия XII в.; события, связанные с борьбой за «Великую...
Изд. 2-е, дополн. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2005. — 203 с.: ил. — (Рах Britannica). — ISBN 5-89329-264-2. В книге изложена история Англии с древнейших времён до начала XVII в. Структура пособия соответствует основным периодам исторического развития страны: Британия в древности и раннее средневековье, нормандское завоевание и Англия XII в.; события, связанные с борьбой за «Великую хартию...
История Англии в средние века» была опубликована почти тридцать лет назад. Тогда, в начале 70-х гг., за плечами Валентины Владимировны был уже опыт почти тридцатилетней работы со студенческой аудиторией, многочисленные статьи, две монографии («Очерки по истории Англии XVI века» — Л. , 1957; «Экономическая политика английского абсолютизма в эпоху его расцвета» — Л. , 1962),...
Изд. 2-е, дополн. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2005. — 203 с.: ил. — (Рах Britannica). — ISBN: 5-89329-264-2. В книге изложена история Англии с древнейших времён до начала XVII в. Структура пособия соответствует основным периодам исторического развития страны: Британия в древности и раннее средневековье, нормандское завоевание и Англия XII в.; события, связанные с борьбой за «Великую...
СПб. : Алетейя, 2005. — 203 с. ; ил. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 5-89329-264-2. В книге изложена история Англии с древнейших времен до начала XVII в. Структура пособия соответствует основным периодам исторического развития страны: Британия в древности и раннее средневековье, нормандское завоевание и Англия XII в.; события, связанные с борьбой за «Великую хартию вольностей», с...
Саратов : Издательство Саратовского университета, 1983. — 230 с. Монография кандидата исторических наук, доцента Саратовского университета М. М. Ябровой посвящена изучению первых ростков капитализма в городах Англии, в первую очередь в Лондоне. В работе прослеживается развитие купеческого капитала от мелких торговых объединений до крупных внешнеторговых компаний, развитие кредита...
Саратов : Издательство Саратовского университета, 1983. — 230 с. Монография кандидата исторических наук, доцента Саратовского университета М. М. Ябровой посвящена изучению первых ростков капитализма в городах Англии, в первую очередь в Лондоне. В работе прослеживается развитие купеческого капитала от мелких торговых объединений до крупных внешнеторговых компаний, развитие кредита...
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