Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 310 p. This book examines the fifteenth-century gentry of Leicestershire under five broad headings: as landholders, as members of a social community based on the county, as participants in and leaders of the government of the shire, as members of the wider family unit and, finally, as individuals. Economically assertive, they were also socially...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 384 p. This collection of essays offers an interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship between the road as a material condition of daily life and the formation of local and national communities, arguing that the business of road maintenance, road travel and...
Amberley Publishing, 2017. — 526 p. The Wars of the Roses were a tumultuous period in English history, with family fighting family over the greatest prize in the kingdom – the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the crown? What made his Beaufort mother the great heiress of medieval England, and...
Amberley Publishing, 2017. — 526 p. The Wars of the Roses were a tumultuous period in English history, with family fighting family over the greatest prize in the kingdom – the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the crown? What made his Beaufort mother the great heiress of medieval England, and...
Amberley Publishing, 2017. — 526 p. The Wars of the Roses were a tumultuous period in English history, with family fighting family over the greatest prize in the kingdom – the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the crown? What made his Beaufort mother the great heiress of medieval England, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 370 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 43). This book is the first major study in English of a group of late twelfth-century religious enthusiasts, the early Humiliati, who were condemned by the Church as heretics in 1184 but--in a remarkable transition--were reconciled seventeen years later and went on to...
Pen & Sword History, 2019. — 200 p. When William the Conqueror died in 1087 he left the throne of England to William Rufus … his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus’s elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his; this conflict marked the start of 400 years of bloody disputes as the English monarchy’s line of hereditary succession was...
Pen & Sword History, 2019. — 200 p. When William the Conqueror died in 1087 he left the throne of England to William Rufus … his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus’s elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his; this conflict marked the start of 400 years of bloody disputes as the English monarchy’s line of hereditary succession was...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 414 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 118). The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet, in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 212 p. This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 200 p. - Explores the problem of conceptual history for medievalists - Each chapter focuses on a single noun, covering frequently encountered and under-analysed concepts - Aimed at students and scholars of medieval history This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 200 p. - Explores the problem of conceptual history for medievalists - Each chapter focuses on a single noun, covering frequently encountered and under-analysed concepts - Aimed at students and scholars of medieval history This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the...
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1911. — 208 p. Consideking the richness and variety of both technical and popular literature upon Castles generally, it may appear superfluous to send forth another book upon the same subject, and, if investigation had been at a standstill or barren in results during the past decade, criticism would be justified. But much has come to light upon...
Routledge, 2020. — 312 p. The essays brought together in this volume examine the conduct of war by the Angevin kings of England during the long thirteenth century (1189-1307). Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished administrative records that have been largely ignored by previous scholarship, David S. Bachrach offers new insights into the military technology of the period,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 381 p. The economic downturn of the mid-1370s and the easing of social tensions after 1381 are held to represent a watershed, after which English society finally settled into a post-plague equilibrium. This interpretation is not readily reconciled with evidence from the late 1380s for continuing economic turbulence, heightened anxiety about how...
The Boydell Press, 2007. — 344 p. Suffolk was one of the most important regions of England in the middle ages. Even by 1200 it was wealthy, densely populated, highly commercialised and urbanised; and it survived the impact of three of the most tumultuous events of the last millennium, the Great Famine [1315-22], the Black Death [1349] and the Peasants' Revolt [1381], to become by...
Boydell & Brewer, 2014. — 320 p. An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications. Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in particular, led the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The decline of serfdom between c.1300 and c.1500 in...
Boydell & Brewer, 2014. — 320 p. An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications. Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in particular, led the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The decline of serfdom between c.1300 and c.1500 in...
Manchester University Press, 2002. — 272 p. Provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records. Offers translations of, and commentaries upon, each category...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 324 p. From warhorses to the men-at-arms who rode them; armies that were raised to the lords who recruited, led, administered, and financed them; and ships to the mariners who crewed them; few aspects of the organisation and logistics of war in late medieval England have escaped the scholarly attention, or failed to benefit from the insights, of Dr Andrew...
Brill, 2024. — xxiv, 652 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 24). This book in memory of F. Donald Logan explores different aspects of Christian culture and society in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. Although this period has traditionally been interpreted in terms of decline and decay, this excessively gloomy picture has slowly given way over the last eighty years or...
Routledge, 2020. — 300 p. Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. A quick glance at the sources suggests as much. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority of the documents which have survived from later medieval England and Ireland, and medieval Europe in general, are legal in nature. Yet despite the fact that law played a prominent role in...
Routledge, 2020. — 300 p. Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. A quick glance at the sources suggests as much. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority of the documents which have survived from later medieval England and Ireland, and medieval Europe in general, are legal in nature. Yet despite the fact that law played a prominent role in...
Da Capo Press, 1997. — 190 p. — (Medieval Military Library). An examination of King Henry II's relationship with his sons, Richard and John. The important events of Henry's reign are covered in depth, major personalities are detailed, and there is a wealth of information on Henry himself, Queen Eleanor and the martyred bishop, and Thomas Beckett.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 224 p. Sandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status after the Black Death. Focusing on England, 'Venomous Tongues' uses a combination of legal, literary, and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was...
Boydell Press, 2003. — 224 p. Juliet Barker surveys the tournament in England from its first emergence in the twelfth century to the beginning of the fifteenth, when it was revolutionised by the emergence of technical changes which altered its very nature. The original publication of this study, deriving from Juliet Barker's PhD thesis supervised by Maurice Keen, reestablished...
Hambledon Continuum, 1994. — 288 p. Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 shows that it is possible to expand the repertoire of examples of medieval women with personalities and individuality beyond the well-known triad of Margaret Paston, Margery Kempe and the Wife of Bath. The rich documentation of London records allows these women to speak for themselves. They do so largely...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 810 p. This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. There are colourful details of the everyday life of ordinary men and women, with...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 810 p. This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. This was a period in which the ruling dynasty and military aristocracy were deeply...
Cornell University Press, 1966. — 518 p. So the scope of my inquiry was eventually broadened to include the whole history of warfare in England from the landing of Duke William in September 1066 to the death of Henry II in July 1189. It had long been suspected that the old notion of an "age of cavalry," at least as it applied to England, needed modification, and the work of C....
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 215 p. The wool market was extremely important to the English medieval economy and wool dominated the English export trade from the late thirteenth century to its decline in the late fifteenth century. Wool was at the forefront of the establishment of England as a European political and economic power and this 2007 volume was the first study of...
Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 298 p. — (Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Third Series 18). This study of Cheshire and Lancashire society in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries is a unique attempt to reconstruct the social life of an English region in the later Middle Ages. Drawing on the voluminous archives of the two palatinates and the...
University of London Press, 2022. — 284 p. A powerful study of medieval London’s urban fringe. The Margins of Late Medieval London seeks to unpack the complexity of urban life in the medieval age, offering a detailed and novel approach to understanding London beyond its grand institutions and social bodies. Using a combination of experimental digital, quantitative, and...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 675 p. — (Winchester Studies 1). London and Winchester were not described in the Domesday Book, but the royal properties in Winchester were surveyed for Henry I about 1110 and the whole city was surveyed for Bishop Henry of Blois in 1148. These two surveys survive in a single manuscript, known as the Winton Domesday, and constitute the earliest and by far...
Brill, 2002. — 306 p. — (The Northern World. North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. Peoples, Economies and Cultures 2). In May 1998, the North American Branch of the Richard III Society, in conjunction with the Departments of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ohio University, held its second conference on fifteenth-century studies. These...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 320 p. The city of Durham, although geographically far removed from the centre of political power in England in the later medieval period, was of great strategic and ecclesiastical importance during its early history. It was the seat of the prince bishops, a military headquarters for the defence of the northern borders of England, a centre...
Leiden: Brill, 2016. — 262 p. — (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 67). The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of scholarly studies on lollardy, the late medieval religious phenomenon that has often been credited with inspiring the English Reformation. In A Companion to Lollardy, Patrick Hornbeck sums up what we know about lollardy and what have been its...
Brill, 1998. — xii, 230 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 70). This study examines expectations of imminent judgment that energized reform movements in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. It probes the apocalyptic vision of the Lollards, followers of the Oxford professor John Wycliff (1384). The Lollards repudiated the medieval church and established...
The Boydell Press, 2004. — 242 p. Patronage was central to medieval kingship, and a crucial facet of royal power. This book, the first in-depth examination of this crucial facet of royal power, offers a detailed analysis of how Edward III, one of the most successful and, to use a modern term, charismatic of medieval English monarchs, used royal favour to create a 'new nobility'...
York Medieval Press, 2000. — 163 p. At the very moment that the image of the honest labourer seemed to reach its apogee in the Luttrell Psalter or, a few decades later, in Piers Plowman, the dominant culture of the landed interests was increasingly suspicious of what it described as the idleness, greed and arrogance of the lower orders. Labour was one of the central issues during...
Pen & Sword History, 2023. — 272 p. Stephen. John. Edward II. Richard II. Richard III. These five are widely viewed as the worst of England’s medieval kings. Certainly, their reigns were not success stories. Two of these kings lost their thrones, one only avoided doing so by dying, another was killed in battle, and the remaining one had to leave his crown to his opponent. All...
Pen & Sword History, 2023. — 272 p. Stephen. John. Edward II. Richard II. Richard III. These five are widely viewed as the worst of England’s medieval kings. Certainly, their reigns were not success stories. Two of these kings lost their thrones, one only avoided doing so by dying, another was killed in battle, and the remaining one had to leave his crown to his opponent. All...
Routledge, 2016. — 438 p. Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued importance (or otherwise) of the Anglo-Saxon past in the generations following the Norman Conquest of England. In order to better understand these issues, this...
Routledge, 2016. — 221 p. First published in 1962, this book challenges the notion that the later Middle Ages failed to sustain the economic growth of earlier centuries, suggesting that historians have been preoccupied with absolute levels of output over more important questions of output per head. It also argues they have ignored the disastrous fall in living standards in the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. — 368 p. A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treasure. The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered (it’s not really a tapestry) in the late eleventh century. As an artefact, it is priceless,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. — 368 p. A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treasure. The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered (it’s not really a tapestry) in the late eleventh century. As an artefact, it is priceless,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. — 368 p. A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treasure. The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered (it’s not really a tapestry) in the late eleventh century. As an artefact, it is priceless,...
Macmillan Education, 2003. — 262 p. What impact did the Church have on society? How did social change affect religious practice? Within the context of these wide-ranging questions, this study offers a fresh interpretation of the relationship between Church, society and religion in England across five centuries of change. Andrew Brown examines how the teachings of an...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 326 p. This book charts the striking rise, fall and restoration of the first earl of Ulster, Hugh II de Lacy, described by one contemporary chronicler as 'the most powerful of the English in Ireland'. A younger son of the lord of Meath,de Lacy ascended from relatively humble beginnings to join the top stratum of Angevin society, being granted in 1205 the...
Routledge, 2014. — 342 p. In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the English. However by 1400 Britain and Ireland were divided between the warring kings of England and Scotland, and peoples still starkly defined by race and nation. Why did the apparent trends...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. — 280 p. "You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership at the end of the Middle Ages. But what...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 316 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 85). This important exploration of the reign of Edward I - one of England's most lionised, feared and successful monarchs - presents his kingship in a radical new light. Through detailed case studies of Shropshire, Warwickshire and Kent, Caroline Burt examines how...
V&R unipress, 2020. — 477 p. — (Studien zu Macht und Herrschaft 12). In the present study Dominik Büschken uses narrative sources to examine medieval patterns of perception of social mobility, the influence of medieval interpretations on social advancement opportunities, and analyses the function that social mobility could assume for the system of society. Especially the...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 459 p. In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to pressing with weights as a coercive measure. Using peine forte et dure ('strong and hard punishment') as a lens through which to analyse the law and its relationship with Christianity, Butler asks: where do we draw the line between...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 304 p. Justice and mercy argues that our understanding of the creation of the English common law cannot be complete until we appreciate the moral dilemmas the process generated. It investigates one of the most acute difficulties facing the judges of the twelfth century: how to choose between justice and mercy when determining the appropriate...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 304 p. Justice and mercy argues that our understanding of the creation of the English common law cannot be complete until we appreciate the moral dilemmas the process generated. It investigates one of the most acute difficulties facing the judges of the twelfth century: how to choose between justice and mercy when determining the appropriate...
Routledge, 2005. — 312 p. — (Studies in Medieval History and Culture). This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance...
Princeton University Press, 1958. — 370 р. Illustrations. Abbreviations. Introduction: The Gregorian Reforms and the Norman Church-State System. The Beginnings of the Controversy Over Church-State Relations, 1089-1097. Anselm and the Papacy, 1097-1100. The Investiture Controversy, 1100-1104. The Ending of the Investiture Controversy, 1104-1109. Henry I, The English Church, and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 360 p. — (The Middle Ages Series). Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters between masters and servants, husbands and wives,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 812 p. This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners - the gentry - in one county of fifteenth-century England. It looks at all aspects of their lives, including marriage, the family, how they ran their estates and how they made friends and enemies, in an often very turbulent century that saw the reigns of the three Lancastrian kings (Henry...
Boydell and Brewer, 1998. — 218 p. The collection of fifteenth-century letters printed here for the first time stands alongside the Paston and Stonor correspondence in its intrinsic interest and the light it sheds on contemporary gentry life. Edited from a recently discovered manuscript in Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun.E.6.10 (4)), the letters deal largely with the prolonged...
Penguin Books, 2015. — 592 p. Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the most famous documents in world history. It asserts a fundamental principle: that the ruler is subject to the law. Alongside a new text and translation of the Charter, David Carpenter's commentary draws on new discoveries to give an entirely fresh account of Magna Carta's text,...
Penguin Books, 2005. — 640 p. Drawing upon vast amounts of fresh research, David Carpenter’s remarkable new book brings to life medieval Britain in the tumultuous period between the Norman conquest of England and the English conquest of Wales under Edward I. This epoch saw a profound reshaping of Britain, as Norman and Anglo-Saxon peoples were molded together into a new...
Faber and 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...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 62 p. William’s conquest of the island arguably made him the most important figure in shaping the course of English history, but modern caricatures of this vitally important medieval figure are largely based on ignorance. William is a fascinating and complex figure, in many ways the quintessential warrior king of this period. Inheriting the...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 187 p. The wide-ranging articles collected here represent the cutting edge of recent Anglo-Norman scholarship. There is a particular focus on historical sources for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and especially on the key texts which are used by historians in understanding the past. There are also articles on Eadmer's Historia Novorum, Dudo of...
Endeavour Press, 2017. — 307 p. 1381. Kent. After 15 long years at war, veteran Wat Tyler lives in peace on his Tonbridge farm with his daughter Sophia.Then the poll tax collectors come calling. They do not believe Sophia is 15, under age for the tax and perform an examination of maidenhood. Witnessing his daughter being sexually assaulted, Wat kills the tax collector and a...
CRC Press, 2012. — 201 p. This is an updated and expanded edition of a classic introduction to medieval England from the reign of William the Conqueror to Edward I. Includes a new chapter on family and gender roles, revisions throughout to enhance the narrative flow, and further reading sections containing the most up-to-date sources. Offers engaging and clear discussion of the...
Second edition, Oxford UK & Cambridge USA: Blackwell Pub, 1994. P. 407. ISBN: 0631168575 List of Plates Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition List of Abbreviations Being Prejudiced in Favour of Literacy Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Literacy England's Place in Medieval Literacy The Making of Records Memories and Myths of the Norman Conquest...
4th Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 364 p. This is an updated and expanded edition of a classic introduction to medieval England from the reign of William the Conqueror to Edward I. - Includes a new chapter on family and gender roles, revisions throughout to enhance the narrative flow, and further reading sections containing the most up-to-date sources - Offers engaging and...
3rd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 432 p. Michael Clanchy’s widely acclaimed history of the written word in the Middle Ages remains a seminal work in the field. Now available in its third edition, it has been updated to include the latest research and to reflect on the development of medieval literacy studies in recent decades. The book retains its focus on the period from...
The Boydell Press, 2012. — 172 p. The concerns of people over differing levels of fifteenth-century society are the focus of the essays contained in this volume. How would a queen in exile wish to be depicted on a medal, or a newly-crowned king deal with recalcitrant London merchants when their interests clashed with his policies? The logistics of an invasion of France present...
The Boydell Press, 2017. — 224 p. The focus of this volume may be summed up as "The Word". Its essays examine the contents and provenance of manuscripts which were written for polemical purposes, treasured by the duchess of York, and through the new medium of print introduced to a wider public topics of historical interest and illustrations of the geography of the known world....
The Boydell Press, 2018. — 208 p. The vitality and diversity of research into the late medieval period are exemplified by the contents of this volume. A central theme is the medieval Church: examinations of the process of ordination, the parishioners of Dartford in Kent and the influence of their learned vicar, how monastic chroniclers changed their focus as the century...
The Boydell Press, 2020. — 178 p. The essays collected here cast light on the factors that made or defined an individual, and the ways in which the men and women concerned gave expression to their individuality. Facets of the characters of English kings emerge from the varying contents of their wills, and the use of propaganda in their personal letters. By contrast, Margaret of...
York Medieval Press, 2018. — 289 p. — (Writing History in the Middle Ages 6). History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the twelfth century, has long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars, whilst editions...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 243 p. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, texts about the recent and more distant past were produced in remarkable numbers in the lands controlled by the kings of England. This may be seen, in part, as a response to changing social and political circumstances in the wake of the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The names of many of...
Routledge, 2017. — 500 p. First published in 1988, this book traces the complex evolution of Oxford and Cambridge from the twelfth through the early sixteenth centuries. In the process, the author incorporates new research on Cambridge University that has become available only recently. Alan B. Cobban is able to give an overall view of the functioning of the English...
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"....
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"....
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 216 p. Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. This clause in Magna Carta was in response to the appalling imprisonment and starvation of Matilda de Braose, the wife of...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 216 p. Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. This clause in Magna Carta was in response to the appalling imprisonment and starvation of Matilda de Braose, the wife of...
Combined Books, 1996. — 256 p. The author draws on fresh research for a new interpretation of the actual role of the knight in England during the middle ages. The knight underwent a process of evolution from a mounted warrior of modest means to an important member of the medieval hierarchy, with important local administrative functions in addition to military duties. There was an...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 338 p. In The Foundations of Gentry Life, Peter Coss examines the formative years of the English gentry. In doing so, he explains their lasting characteristics during a long history as a social elite, including adaptability to change and openness to upward mobility from below, chiefly from the professions. Revolving around the rich archive left by...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 344 p. Although the gentry played a central role in medieval England, this study is the first sustained exploration of its origins and development between the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth century. Arguing against views which see the gentry as formed or created earlier, the text investigates as well the relationship between lesser...
Doubleday, 2012. — 343 p. — (The Pageant of England). Thomas B. Costain's four-volume great history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of King John in 1216. The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and...
Popular Library, 1983. — 520 p. — (The Pageant of England). The final volume in A History of the Plantagenets covers the century from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor. This book covers the last of the Plantagenets from Richard II to Richard III including the War of the...
Popular Library, 1983. — 324 p. — (The Pageant of England). It is the second volume of Thomas Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers King Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272. During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw spectacular advancement in the arts, sciences and theology, as well as in...
Doubleday, 1962. — 475 p. — (The Pageant of England). It is a third volume in Thomas B. Costain's survey of Britain under the Plantagenets, covers the years between 1272 and 1377 when three Edwards ruled England. King Edward I brought England out of the Middle Ages. Edward II had a tragic reign but gave his country Edward III, who ruled gloriously, if violently. A thrilling...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 530 p. The Bishop Sets Forth. Principles of Authority. Episcopal Origins. A Network of Nephews. Structures of Power in England. Structures of Power in Normandy. The King’s Bishop. Policy and Patronage.
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 468 p. This book is a study of the reformation in ecclesiastical politics in twelfth-century England whereby the cathedral chapter, by gradually gaining control of more of its own wealth and resources, increased its power and emerged as a community largely independent of the bishop. The story illuminates an important period in the internal...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 362 p. William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I. Offering an original explanation of medieval society - one...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 362 p. William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I. Offering an original explanation of medieval society - one...
Longman, 2000. — 384 p. — ISBN-13 9780582226579. — ISBN-10 0582226570. A biography of King Stephen (1134-1154), the last Norman monarch whose reign was key in English history as well as the subject of much controversial assessment. Traditionally regarded as a period of anarchy and civil war, recent research has presented a more balanced perspective. The twelfth-century civil...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 338 p. List of Tables. Abbreviations. Muster rolls. Methodology. The Peerage. Age. Length of service. Frequency and type of service. The Knights. Trends in rhe numbers and proportions of knights serving in armies. Why did rhe number and proportion of knights decline? Strenui milites: who were the fighting knights? Roles and careers. The...
Boydell Press, 2011. — 252 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 38). Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical (and physical) landscape of the British Isles and Normandy in the middle ages; yet, in comparison with the history of monasteries, theirs has received significantly less attention. This volume helps to redress the balance by examining major themes in their...
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...
Routledge, 2003. — 272 p. Using a combination of original sources and sharp analysis, this book is sheds new light on a crucial period in England's development. From Norman Conquest to Magna Carta is a wide-ranging history of England from 1066 to 1215 ideal for students and researchers throughout the field of medieval history. Starting with the build-up to the Battle of...
Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 2003. — 336 p. Surveying a broad landscape through a narrow lens, "1215" sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life during a time of global upheaval, the ripples of which can still be felt today. At the center of this fascinating period is the document that has become the root of modern freedom: the Magna Carta. Never before had...
Oxford: University Press, 2000. - 224 p.
The future of the United Kingdom is an increasingly open question. This book traces the issue's roots to the Middle Ages, when English power and control came to extend to the whole of the British Isles. By 1300 it looked as if Edward I was in control of virtually the whole of the British Isles. Ireland, Scotland, and Wales had, in...
University of London, 2017. — 301 p. This thesis uses the existing evidence relating to the de Bohun family, earls of Hereford and Essex, to examine the development of the dynastic sense of identity and pious practices of the nobility of thirteenth and fourteenth century England. The thesis analyses the existing evidence for the family over several generations, starting at the...
York Medieval Press, 2006. — 256 p. Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period of English history, but to date he has been relatively neglected in comparison to other fourteenth and fifteenth-century kings. This book offers a significant re-appraisal of a much maligned monarch and his historical importance, making use of the latest empirical research and...
York Medieval Press, 2020. — 224 p. — (Political Culture in the Middle Ages 1). The essays collected here celebrate mark the distinguished career of Professor W. Mark Ormrod, reflecting the vibrancy and range of his scholarship on the structures, personalities and culture of ruling late medieval England. Encompassing political, administrative, Church and social history, the...
D.S.Brewer, 2020. — 432 p. An examination of how regional identities are reflected in texts from medieval England. The period after the Norman Conquest saw a dramatic reassessment of what it meant to be English, owing to both the advent of Anglo-Norman rule and increased interaction with other cultures through trade, travel, migration, and war. While cultural contact is often...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 236 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 36). Jocelin, bishop of Wells (d. 1242), is an iconic figure in his native city; but his career as courtier and statesman moved far beyond the west country. From a family network which had produced bishops over several generations, heplayed a major role in a developing diocese and mother church, and in...
Leiden: Brill, 2017. — 378 p. — (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 76). Brill's Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx explores the life, works, and thought of Aelred, Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey from 1147 to 1167. As well as introducing the three genres of his works —sermons, spiritual teaching, and history— scholars survey such central topics as Marian devotion,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 396 p. Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and in Peasants Making History , Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his example the peasants of the west midlands of England, Dyer examines peasant society in...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 396 p. Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and in Peasants Making History , Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his example the peasants of the west midlands of England, Dyer examines peasant society in...
Revised edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 298 p. Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and...
York Medieval Press, 2024. — 283 p. — (Health and Healing in the Middle Ages 6). Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts from medieval Britain. When will I die? What is the sex of my unborn child? Which of two rivals will win a duel?As today, people in the later Middle Ages approached their...
ARC Humanities Press, 2022. — 156 p. This study shows the importance of carolling in the celebrations and festivities of late medieval Britain and demonstrates its longevity from the eleventh century to the sixteenth century.
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 248 p. How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing attitudes and values of medieval England? Considering these questions from the perspective of the "moral economy", the web of shared values within a society, Rosamond Faith offers a penetrating...
Edited by Henry Richards Luard, D.D. — London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1890. — 505 p. The nineteenth-century academic and university administrator Henry Richards Luard (1825–91) was a major contributor to the Rolls Series. His edition of the Flores historiarum, published in three volumes in 1890, remains the standard work. This Latin chronicle, compiled at St Albans and...
D.S. Brewer, 2006. — 177 p. Written with largely uneducated rural congregations in mind, John Mirk's Festial became the most popular vernacular sermon collection of late-medieval England, yet until relatively recently it has been neglected by scholars -- despite the fact that the question of popular access to the Bible, undoubtedly regarded as the preserve of learned culture,...
Greenwood Press, 2009. — 302 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. Readers...
Cambridge University Press, 1979. — 311 p. Problems and sources I Introduction: The king and the magnates before 1318 The rise of the Despensers The civil war, 1321-2 The aftermath of the civil war: Imprisonments and executions The aftermath of the civil war: Confiscations and the territorial settlement Royal finance, 1321-6 The Despensers' spoils of power, 1321-6 The defeat in...
Boydell and Brewer, 2009. — 274 p. An important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical/moral purpose -- amongst many other aspects of romance. Medieval readers, like modern ones, differed in whether they saw "noble storie, and worthie for to drawen to memorie" in romance, or "drasty rymyng, nat worth a toord". This book tackles the task of discerning...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 420 p. Conquered England argues that Duke William of Normandy's claim to succeed Edward the Confessor on the throne of England profoundly influenced not only the practice of royal succession, but also played a large part in creating a novel structure of land tenure, dependent on the king. In these two fundamental respects, the attempt made in...
Boydell Press, 2013. — 256 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 40). While there has been work on the nobility as patrons of monasteries, this is the first real study of them as patrons of parish churches, and is thus the first study to tackle the subject as a whole. Illustrated with a wealth of detail, it will become an indispensable work of reference for those...
Brill, 2024. — 310 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 244). This volume contains transcriptions of rolls 1 to 20 (1466-1500) of the 105 (1466-1636) extant rolls of churchwardens' accounts from the parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London. These financial records, along with assorted memoranda, are filled with information about the church, its...
Boydell Press, 2003. — 289 p. Six of the greatest twelfth-century historians - William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Gaimar, Roger of Howden, and Gerald of Wales -are analysed in this collection of essays, focusing on their attitudes to three inter-related aspects of English history. The first theme is the rise of the new and condescending...
Brill, 2021. — 437 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 97). A Companion to the English Dominican Province offers an account of Dominican activities in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from their arrival in 1221 until their dissolution at the Reformation. Over the three centuries covered in this volume, the Friars Preachers not only devoted themselves to the...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 336 p. Crown-magnate relations, the Anglo-Scottish, Anglo-French and Anglo-Irish wars, national and local finance and administration and the nature of late medieval kingship are among the principal themes explored in this volume, along with aristocratic consumption, historical writing, chivalric culture and a review of recent work on crusading history....
The Boydell Press, 2008. — 332 p. Crown-magnate relations, the Anglo-Scottish, Anglo-French and Anglo-Irish wars, national and local finance and administration and the nature of late medieval kingship are among the principal themes explored in this volume, along with aristocratic consumption, historical writing, chivalric culture and a review of recent work on crusading...
Manchester University Press, 2000. — 304 p. The past decade or so has seen an explosion of writings on English medieval women. Only a proportion of this literature, however, represents the fruit of substantial archival work and there is an inevitable tendency for such studies to be primarily dependent on an individual source. Much writing on medieval women has, moreover, drawn...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011. — 288 p. The battle of Towton in 1461 was unique in its ferocity and brutality, as the armies of two kings of England engaged with murderous weaponry and in appalling conditions to conclude the first War of the Roses. Variously described as the largest, longest, and bloodiest battle on English soil, Towton was fought with little chance of escape and...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011. — 288 p. The battle of Towton in 1461 was unique in its ferocity and brutality, as the armies of two kings of England engaged with murderous weaponry and in appalling conditions to conclude the first War of the Roses. Variously described as the largest, longest, and bloodiest battle on English soil, Towton was fought with little chance of escape and...
The 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...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2007. — 386 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 31). Definitive history of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds during a crucial period in its history. St Edmund's Abbey was one of the most highly privileged and wealthiest religious houses in medieval England, one closely involved with the central government; its history is an integral part...
New York: E. & J. B. Young & co., 1901. — 274 p. This, little book is an attempt to give a brief sketch of Britain under the early English сonquerors, rather from the social than from the political point of view. For that purpose not much has been said about the doings of kings and statesmen ; but attention has been mainly directed towards the less obvious evidence afforded us...
Edited and introduced by Bob Carruthers — Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 224 p. James Grant (1822–1887) was a Scottish author and was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was a distant relation of Sir Walter Scott. He was a prolific author, writing some 90 books, including many yellow-backs. Titles included Adventures of an Aide-de-camp , One of 'The Six Hundred' , The Scottish...
Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2008. — 288 p. The years between 1200 and 1600 saw the flowering of the chivalrous knight and also his ultimate demise. It is the period that embraced both the ideals of chivalry as we think of them today and also the image of the knight in shining armour. Early knights were basically fighting men but during the 12th century this attitude had been...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 303 p. The is a full-length analysis of the machinery and men of government under Henry I, which looks in much greater detail than is possible for other contemporary states at the way government worked and at the careers of royal servants. Royal government in England in the early twelfth-century was developing fast under political and military...
The Hambledon Press, 1991. — 408 p. King and Country is a selection of essays and papers from Ralph A. Griffiths, published variously in Wales, England, France and North America between 1964 and 1990. It explores themes in the history of England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century and the dominions of the English crown beyond.
Random House Publishing Group, 2013. — 448 p. A revisionist new biography reintroducing readers to one of the most subversive figures in English history'the man who sought to reform a nation, dared to defy his king, and laid down his life to defend his sacred honor Becket's life story has been often told but never so incisively reexamined and vividly rendered as it is in John...
Boydell Press, 2006. — 205 p. The new research here covers a number of aspects of the politics and culture of fourteenth-century England, including religious culture and institutions as illustrated in the cult of Thomas of Lancaster, preaching to women in the later fourteenth century, and in the Church's response to a royal fundraising campaign. There are detailed examinations of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 234 p. Medieval London, like all premodern cities, had a largely immigrant population-only a small proportion of the inhabitants were citizens-and the newly arrived needed to be taught the civic culture of the city in order for that city to function peacefully. Ritual and ceremony played key roles in this acculturation process. In Ceremony and...
Harvard University Press, 1979. — 288 p. As this account of crime patterns in medieval England shows, crime can perhaps tell us more about a society's dynamics, tensions, and values than any other single social phenomenon. And Barbara Hanawalt's approach is particularly enlightening because it looks at the subject not from the heights of the era's learned opinion, but from the...
University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011. — 239 p. This book seeks to explore the changing nature of English society through a case study of countryside and town in southern England during the period from c.1380 to c.1520. It explores the influence of landscape and population on the agriculture of Wiltshire, the regional patterns of arable and pastoral farming, and the growing...
Routledge, 2016. — 352 р. In 1214, King John issued a charter granting freedom of election to the English Church; henceforth, cathedral chapters were, theoretically, to be allowed to elect their own bishops, with minimal intervention by the crown. Innocent III confirmed this charter and, in the following year, the right to electoral freedom was restated at the Fourth Lateran...
Macmillan Education, 1977. — 92 p. An Introduction to the Controversy. Direct Evidence of Population Change. Economic Evidence of Population Change. Why was the Population Decline so Protracted? Population in Early Tudor England.
Manchester University Press, 2009. — 232 p. — (Manchester Medieval Sources). 'Monasticism in Late Medieval England, c. 1300-1535' provides the first collection of translated sources on this subject. The volume covers both male and female houses of all orders and sizes, and offers a range of new perspectives on the character and reputation of English monasteries in the later...
London: Routledge, 2002. — 280 p. English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century is a new and original study of how politics worked in late medieval England, throwing new light on a much-discussed period in English history. Michael Hicks explores the standards, values and principles that motivated contemporary politicians, and the aspirations and interests of both dukes and...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 352 p. Excommunication was the medieval churches most severe sanction, used against people at all levels of society. It was a spiritual, social, and legal penalty. Excommunication in Thirteenth-Century England offers a fresh perspective on medieval excommunication by taking a multi-dimensional approach to discussion of the sanction. Using...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 352 p. Excommunication was the medieval churches most severe sanction, used against people at all levels of society. It was a spiritual, social, and legal penalty. Excommunication in Thirteenth-Century England offers a fresh perspective on medieval excommunication by taking a multi-dimensional approach to discussion of the sanction. Using...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 236 p. This book contains eight articles, six of which are based on papers contributed to a commemoration conference organised by the Past and Present Society in 1981. Two further articles and an introduction are contributed by other experts. They explore the various dimensions of the rising of 1381: the discontent of peasants and townspeople...
Oxford University Press, 1975. — 275 p. The Peasantry as a Class. The Social Structure of the Village. The Peasants' Economy. Conflict and Collaboration. The Small Town as Part of Peasant Society. Women in the Village. Social Structure of Rural Warwickshire in the Middle Ages. Gloucester Abbey Leases of the Late Thirteenth Century. A Study in the Pre-history of English...
Routledge, 2003. — 249 p. Rodney Hilton's account of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 remains the classic authoritative text on the 'English Rising'. Hilton views the revolt in the context of a general European pattern of class conflict. He demonstrates that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not mere unrelated outbreaks of violence but had their roots in common...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 299 p. In the Middle Ages, the March between England and Wales was a contested, militarised frontier zone, a 'land of war'. With English kings distracted by affairs in France, English frontier lords were left on their own to organize and run lordships in the manner that was best suited to this often violent borderland. The centrepiece of the...
Hambledon Press, 1997. — 362 p. The process of colonization that followed the Norman Conquest defined much of the history of England over the next 150 years, structurally altering the distribution of land and power in society. The author's subjects include Domesday Book, the establishment of knight-service, aristocratic structures and nomenclature, the relation of family to...
Routledge, 2014. — 298 p. This book brings together twelve outstanding articles by eminent historians to throw light on the evolution of medieval towns and the lives of their inhabitants. The essays span the period from the dramatic urban expansion of the thirteenth century to the crises in the fifteenth century as a result of plague, population decline and changes in the...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. — 208 p. The Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of the scholarly arguments about the Normans and their influence overlook...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. — 208 p. The Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of the scholarly arguments about the Normans and their influence overlook the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 296 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Fourth Series 39). This book explores the full range of social, economic, religious, and cultural contacts between England and the German city of Cologne during the Central Middle Ages, c. 1000 to c. 1300. A wealth of original archive material reveals an extensive network of English...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 297 p. Alchemists did more than try to transmute base metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines and advocated the regeneration of matter and spirit. This book illustrates how this new branch of thought became increasingly popular as the practical and theoretical...
Routledge, 2016. — 266 p. Ruling England , now in its second edition, is a key text for students wishing to understand the complexities of medieval kingship in England from 1042–1217. Beginning just before the Norman Conquest, and ending with the ratification of Magna Carta, this book is divided into three parts: Late Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Norman England and Angevin...
Routledge, 2016. — 266 p. Ruling England , now in its second edition, is a key text for students wishing to understand the complexities of medieval kingship in England from 1042–1217. Beginning just before the Norman Conquest, and ending with the ratification of Magna Carta, this book is divided into three parts: Late Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Norman England and Angevin...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 336 p. This intriguing book tells the story of England’s great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. Whether noble and brave or flawed and...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 336 p. This intriguing book tells the story of England’s great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. Whether noble and brave or flawed and...
Brepols, 2005. — 264 p. — (Medieval Church Studies 8). Rievaulx abbey was one of the most prominent houses of white monks (Cistercians) in England, and became in the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries an important feature of the ecclesiastical and social landscape of Yorkshire. The present work is the first in-depth study devoted to Rievaulx's social history. The...
Penguin Books Ltd, 2012. — 649 p. — ISBN13: 9781101606285. The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. We meet the captivating Eleanor of Aquitaine,...
Amber Books, 2014. — 338 p. — ISBN: 9781782741800 Series: Dark Histories Divorced, beheaded, died, Divorced, beheaded, survived. – the fates of Henry VIII’s wives Beginning with the victory of Henry Tudor over Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485, and ending with the death of the childless Elizabeth I in 1603 following a 45-year reign, the Tudor dynasty marks a period in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 224 p. Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. He cultivated and then sabotaged figures of great influence, switching allegiances between kings, upstarts, and popes at an...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 314 p. Church court records offer the most detailed records of everyday life in medieval England for people below the level of the elite. Vivid testimony in cases of marriage, insult, and debt, as well as tithes, testaments and ecclesiastical rights, show how men and women thought about the past and presented their own histories. While previous studies of...
Ashgate, 2009. — 243 p. Accounts of Jack Cade's 1450 Rebellion - an uprising of some 30,000 middle-class citizens, protesting Henry VI's policies, and resulting in hundreds of deaths as well as the leaders' execution - form the dominant entry in a group of quasi-historical documents referred to as the London chronicles of the Fifteenth Century. However, each chronicle is...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 272 p. The 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation’s history: how a bunch of European thugs became the quintessentially English gentry. In 1066 go-getting young immigrant Osbern Fitz Tezzo crossed the Channel in William the Conqueror’s army....
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 272 p. The 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation’s history: how a bunch of European thugs became the quintessentially English gentry. In 1066 go-getting young immigrant Osbern Fitz Tezzo crossed the Channel in William the Conqueror’s army....
The Boydell Press, 1999. — 563 p. This is the first of two volumes offering for the first time an authoritative and complete prosopography of post-Conquest England, 1066-1166. Based on extensive and wide-ranging research, the two volumes contain over eight thousand entries on persons occurring in the principal English administrative sources for the post-Conquest period -- Domesday...
University of California Press, 1992. — 305 p. Feudal Surveys: The Infeudationes militum and the Cartae baronum. The Knight's Fee and Scutage. Henry II's Scutage Policy and the Servicium Debitum. Feudal Patronage. Feudal Taxation under Henry II.
University Of Hertfordshire Press, 2020. — 192 p. This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectual approach has been to consider both subject and evidence from a modern,...
University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020. — 192 p. This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectual approach has been to consider both subject and evidence from a modern,...
Phaidon, 1988. — 280 p. "Medieval England" presents a broad panorama of the political and cultural development of English society from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Wars of the Roses. It is a story of change, progress, setback, and consolidation, with England emerging as a wealthy and stable country, many of whose essential features were to remain unchanged until the...
Andrews UK, 2011. — 103 p. This collection of regional Battle stories is brought to you as an eBook specially formatted by Andrews UK for today's eReaders. In this first book of the 'Battle Trails' series, popular regional writer Clive Kristen turns his hand to an examination of the Battles that shaped british region Northumbria and beyond from 574 until 1513 years.
Routledge, 2006. — 318 p. Larson examines the changing relations between lords and peasants in post-Black Death Durham. This was a time period of upheaval and change, part of the transition from ‘medieval’ to ‘modern.’ Many historians have argued about the nature of this change and its causes, often putting forth a single all-encompassing model; Larson presses for the...
Amberley Publishing, 2016. — 320 p. Immortalised by the chronicler Froissart as the most beautiful woman in England and the most loved, Joan was the wife of the Black Prince and the mother of Richard II, the first Princess of Wales and the only woman ever to be Princess of Aquitaine. The contemporary consensus was that she admirably fulfilled their expectations for a royal...
Sutton Publishing, 1999. — 271 p. In this core text, leading scholars explore the pre-Reformation Church in England with chapters on the Celtic Church and the Papacy, the Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy, From the Conquest to the Death of John, and the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.
Hambledon Press, 1984. — 411 p. his is a collection of the selected papers of John La Patourel, considered by him to be the most representative of his body of work on the Norman and Plantaganet feudal empires. A striking feature of this anthology is the unity, modification and development of Professor Le Patourel's thought from his earliest to the latest essays included....
Brill, 2006. — xxii, 490 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 4). The Companion to John Wyclif contains eight substantial essays covering the central aspects of John Wyclif's life and thought. The volume's authors have drawn on an extensive amount of primary material, as well as the most recent secondary sources, so as to present a comprehensive picture of Wyclif...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 296 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 Becket, the rebellions of Henry II’s sons, the deposition...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 280 p. Two cousins waged war for the future of England. Only one could win. This is the story of Stephen and Matilda, and the civil war remembered as The Anarchy. The Anarchy was the first civil war in post-Conquest England, enduring throughout the reign of King Stephen between 1135 and 1154. It ultimately brought about the end of the Norman...
The Boydell Press, 2014. — 284 p. The abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, by 1100, was an international centre of learning, outstanding for its culting of St. Edmund, England's patron saint, who was known through France and Italy as a miracle worker principally, but also as a survivor, who had resisted the Vikings and the invading king Swein and gained strength after 1066. Here we...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 293 p. North-East England contained some distinctive power structures during the late middle ages, notably the palatinate of Durham, where writs were issued in the name of the bishop of Durham rather than of the king and the bishop exercised secular authority as earl palatine. The core of the palatinate was the bishopric of Durham, an area bounded by the...
The Boydell Press, 2005. — 265 p. The recent surge of interest in the political, ecclesiastical, social and economic history of north-eastern England is reflected in the essays in this volume. The topics covered range widely, including the development of both rural and urban life and institutions. There are contributions on the well-known richness of Durham cathedral muniments,...
Macmillan, 1997. — 275 p. A study of the development of regional networks of trade and social interaction over two centuries. Masschaele examines how the expansion of commercial activity, whose focus was the markets, wrought dynamic changes in relations between towns and their rural hinterlands, and helped to erode the localism of medieval society. The book looks at urban...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 238 p. In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, poets write as if addressing the king himself, drawing on their sense of the rights granted by Magna Carta. These apparent appeals to the sovereign increase with the...
Pen & Sword History, 2019. — 216 p. For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children. John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a ten-year-old granddaughter of Edward I, had...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 216 p. For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children. John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a ten-year-old granddaughter of Edward I, had...
Routledge, 2011. — 376 p. The period from 1066 to 1272, from the Norman Conquest to the death of Henry III, was one of enormous political change in England and of innovation in the Church as a whole. Religion, Politics and Society 1066-1272 charts the many ways in which a constantly changing religious culture impacted on a social and political system which was itself dominated...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 280 p. Conflict between England and France was a fact of life for centuries, but few realize that its origins date from the time of the Vikings, when a Norse chieftain named Rollo established himself and his progeny in Normandy. In this compelling and entertaining history, Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to those dark and turbulent...
Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — 108 p. This Palgrave Pivot explores the representation of sea kings, sinners, and saints in the mid-thirteenth century Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles , the single most important text for the history of the kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c.1066-1300. The focus of the Chronicles on the power struggles, plots and intrigues within the ruling...
Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — 108 p. This Palgrave Pivot explores the representation of sea kings, sinners, and saints in the mid-thirteenth century Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles , the single most important text for the history of the kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c.1066-1300. The focus of the Chronicles on the power struggles, plots and intrigues within the ruling...
Birlinn, 2020. — 304 p. The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful individuals, with unquestionably regnal status, who interacted in a variety of ways with rulers of surrounding...
Birlinn, 2020. — 304 p. The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful individuals, with unquestionably regnal status, who interacted in a variety of ways with rulers of surrounding...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 220 p. This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority. It argues that ecclesiastical writers used their works to legitimize certain displays of royal anger, often resulting in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 220 p. This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority. It argues that ecclesiastical writers used their works to legitimize certain displays of royal anger, often resulting in...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 327 p. This history of the English royal manor of Havering, Essex, illustrates life at one extreme of the spectrum of personal and collective freedom during the later Middle Ages, revealing the kinds of patterns which could emerge when medieval people were placed in a setting of unusual independence. As residents of a manor held by the crown,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. — 272 p. Shannon McSheffrey studies the communities of the late medieval English heretics, the Lollards, and presents unexpected conclusions about the precise ways in which gender shaped participation within the movement. While much recent scholarship has contended that heresies offered medieval women opportunities for religious and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 304 p. How were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval society, and what form did these relationships take? Using extensive documentary evidence from both the ecclesiastical court system and the records of city and royal government, as well as advice manuals, chronicles, moral tales, and liturgical...
Routledge, 2014. — 320 p. This is the first volume of a two-volume study of medieval England covering the period between the Norman Conquest and the Black Death. The book opens with a summary portrait of the English economy and society in the reign of William I. It goes on to examine in detail the population increase from 1086 to 1348 and to investigate the structure of society...
Routledge, 2014. — 470 p. This book is intended as a complement to "Medieval England: Rural Society and Economic Change, 1086-1348", even though other inescapable commitments have meant that it appears more tardily than we had hoped. Since each volume is designed to be read independently there are some overlaps between the two volumes and, in particular, the final chapter of the...
The Boydell Press, 1999. — 262 p. The Battle of Hastings is a unique collection of materials focused on one of the most significant battles in European history. It includes all the primary sources for the battle, including pictorial, and seminal accounts of the battle by the major historians of the last two centuries. Stephen Morillo, in his own important piece, first sets the...
Combined Publishing, 1996. — 409 p. — (Medieval Military Library). If it be true that the English learnt on the battlefields of Scotland the experience which was destined to make them the victors at Crecy and Poitiers, it is equally true that the preliminary experience had been learnt in Wales. It was precisely because I wanted to trace back the evolution of the typically English...
Continuum, 2010. — 394 p. Ian Mortimer considers some of the key questions in Medieval history and rethinks the nature of historical evidence. In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne...
Vintage, 2010. — 400 p. One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London. With the king's men-at-arms in pursuit he fled to the south coast, and sailed to France. There he was joined by Isabella, the Queen of England, who threw herself into his arms. A year later, as lovers, they returned with an...
Wiley-Blackwell, 1994. — 280 p. Richard Mortimer's book covers the reigns of Henry II, his sons Richard the Lionheart and John, and much of that of his grandson Henry III. The period was beset by constant wars with France, frequent troubles with the popes, and baronial rebellions culminating in Magna Carta. But Angevin rule also witnessed the re-establishment of a strengthened...
Moss Publishing, 2011. — 178 p. On October 14, 1066, at Hastings in southern England, the last Orthodox king of England, Harold II, died in battle against Duke William of Normandy. William had been blessed to invade England by the Roman Pope Alexander in order to bring the English Church into full communion with the “reformed Papacy”; for since 1052 the English archbishop had...
The Boydell Press, 2016. — 272 p. Christianity has had a problematic relationship with warfare throughout its history, with the middle ages being no exception. While warfare came to be accepted as a necessary activity for laymen, clerics were largely excluded from military activity. Those who participated in war risked falling foul of a number of accepted canons of the church...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 382 p. This book charts the contributions made to the development of the late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high taxation, adverse weather, and mortality of sheep....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 338 p. This book examines the emergence of the queen consort in medieval England, beginning with the pre-Conquest era and ending with death of Margaret of France, second wife of Edward I, in 1307. Though many of the figures in this volumes are well known, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Eleanor of Castille, the chapters here are unique in the equal...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 338 p. This book examines the emergence of the queen consort in medieval England, beginning with the pre-Conquest era and ending with death of Margaret of France, second wife of Edward I, in 1307. Though many of the figures in this volumes are well known, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Eleanor of Castille, the chapters here are unique in the equal...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 200 p. The arguments used to justify the deposition of Richard II in 1399 created new forms of political discussion which developed alongside new expectations of kingship itself and which shaped political action and debate for centuries to come. This interdisciplinary study analyses the political language and literature of the early Lancastrian...
Routledge, 2020. — 374 p. This is the first book to describe the early English woollens’ industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-sixteenth century, as English trade was transformed from dependence on wool to value-added woollen cloth. It compares English and continental draperies, weighs the advantages of urban and rural production, and...
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955. — 187 p. In so far as it is possible without a wide and exact knowledge of Anglo-Saxon language and literature, this is a thorough and extremely informing piece of historical scholarship. Dr Oleson, after examining every aspect of his subject, concludes that 'the Witenagemot was little more than a court council': and further, that 'the...
York Medieval Press, 2010. — 250 p. Some sixty years before the advent of the printing press, the first political pamphlets about parliament circulated in the city of London. Often vitriolic and satirical, these handwritten pamphlets reported on a trilogy of parliamentary victories against the crown known as the Good, the Wonderful, and the Merciless Parliaments. The first...
University Of Hertfordshire Press, 2007. — 192 p. How were the field boundaries created and cultivated by the farmers of prehistoric and Roman Britain transformed into the open fields of medieval England? Historians and archaeologists have posited a complete physical break between the field systems of Roman Britain and the common or open fields of medieval England. Susan...
The Boydell Press, 2004. — 234 p. New research on aspects of the politics and culture of fourteenth-century England includes close studies of political events such as the quarrel of Edward II and Thomas of Lancaster and Bishop Despenser's Flanders Crusade (1383), fresh considerations of the political and cultural context of English royal tombs and the Wilton Diptych, a number of...
Macmillan Education, 1995. — 177 p. This book explores the dimensions of political society and the major preoccupations of English politics between the later years of Edward I's reign and the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses. W.M. Ormrod was born in South Wales and studied at King's College, London and Worcester College, Oxford. He was Lecturer in History at the Universities of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 156 p. This book provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages. Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women’s access to the highest court of medieval England. Women were active supplicants to the Crown in Parliament, and...
Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 224 p. — (Studies in European Urban History, 1100-1800, vol. 42). The essays collected in this volume identify and analyse the presence of immigrants in late medieval England. Drawing on unique evidence from the alien subsidies collected in England between 1440 and 1487 and other newly accessible archival resources, and deploying a wide range of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. The Norman Conquest is one of the most momentous events in English history and its consequences changed England forever. Indeed, the Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England – so what happened to the children this conflict left behind? Conquered offers a fresh take on the Norman...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. The Norman Conquest is one of the most momentous events in English history and its consequences changed England forever. Indeed, the Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England – so what happened to the children this conflict left behind? Conquered offers a fresh take on the Norman...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 276 p. The Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (c. 1088-1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and eldest son of King Henry I of England (1100-35), who could not succeed his father because he was a bastard. Instead, as the earl of Gloucester, he helped change the course of English history by keeping...
Brill Academic, 2004. — 392 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 124). This volume is an analysis of the development of cultural politics in Lancastrian England. It focusses on Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, brother of Henry V and Protector of England during Henry VI's minority. Humphrey's intellectual activity conformed itself to the Duke's own position in the kingdom:...
Manchester University Press, 2003. — 264 p. The first study on medieval women to treat young women or 'maidens' separately and at length. The book makes a contribution to gender studies through its study of medieval girls' acquisition of appropriate roles and identities, and their own attitudes towards these roles. Examines the experiences and voices of young womanhood....
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 232 p. This book provides a detailed analysis of women’s involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns – Nottingham, Chester and Winchester – and their courts to bring to life the experiences of hundreds of women within the...
Fonthill Media, 2019. — 352 p. Described as ‘greedy and grasping, and raised from nothing’, the Woodviles have had a bad press. This book investigates the family origins, and explains the rise and fall of the senior branch from ‘baron’ to gentry, and how, in the early fifteenth century the wheel of fortune turned dramatically in favour of the junior branch in Northamptonshire,...
Fonthill Media, 2019. — 352 p. Described as ‘greedy and grasping, and raised from nothing’, the Woodviles have had a bad press. This book investigates the family origins, and explains the rise and fall of the senior branch from ‘baron’ to gentry, and how, in the early fifteenth century the wheel of fortune turned dramatically in favour of the junior branch in Northamptonshire,...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 224 p. The Montfortian Civil Wars in England lasted from 1259-1267, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his followers at the battle of Evesham in 1265 ought to have ended the conflict. In the aftermath of the battle, Henry III's decision to disinherit all the surviving Montfortians served to prolong the war for another two years....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 218 p. This book explores the late medieval English cults which evolved around 'political martyrs'. By examining these cults the richness of political culture is revealed, and insights offered into the ways in which belief, worship, social and civic identities, and political language and practice were continuously constructed and re-constructed.
Brill, 2017. — 408 p. — (Brill's Companions to European History 13). This Companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the Central Middle Ages (11th–13th Centuries) offers the first major collection of studies dedicated to the medieval abbey of Le Bec, one of the most important, and perhaps the single most influential, monastery in the Anglo-Norman world. Following its foundation in...
Amberley Publishing, 2016. — 400 p. To our modern minds, the Middle Ages seem to mix the well-known and familiar with wildly alien concepts and circumstances. The Middle Ages Unlocked provides an invaluable introduction to this complex and dynamic period in England.Exploring a wide range of topics from law, religion and education to landscape, art and magic, between the eleventh...
Routledge, 2022. — 252 p. A.J. Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories, tales and ballads of Robin Hood, and re-examines the story of this fascinating figure. Setting out the economic, social and political context of the time, Pollard illuminates the legend of this yeoman hero and champion of justice as never before. Imagining Robin Hood questions: what a...
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 320 p. This book breaks new ground in the study of crime and law enforcement in late medieval England using the reign of Henry V as a detailed case study. Dr Powell considers the subject on three levels: legal theory - academic, governmental, and popular thinking about the nature of law; legal machinery - the framework of courts and their...
The Boydell Press, 2005. — 239 p. This collection presents new and original research into the long thirteenth century, from c.1180-c.1330, with a particular focus on the reign of Edward II and its aftermath. Other topics examined include crown finances, markets and fairs, royal stewards, the aftermath of the Barons' War, Wace's Roman de Brut, and authority in Yorkshire nunneries;...
Macmillan Education UK, 1990. — 184 p. Intended to bring together recent ideas about the 13th century, this book discusses kingship, the aristocracy, the county community, the Church, Englishmen and foreigners, military service, taxation and parliament and community.
Routledge, 2003. — 319 p. This book is an excellent introduction to this eventful period in history, offering students of history and the Middle Ages a fascinating insight into the reigns of three very different sovereigns: Edward I – a confident and masterful conqueror of Wales, Edward II – defeated by the Scots, humiliated and deposed, Edward III – triumphant against the...
Faber and Faber Ltd., 1972. — 317 p. If you only know if Edward I of England from watching Braveheart, this book will fill you in with many details about his reign. We know of his fight against the Scots, but he waged battles on many other fronts including Wales, Gascony, and Flanders. In this book, a historian has gone into great depth looking at still existing historical...
Cambridge University Press, 1982. — 216 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Third Series 17). This is a comprehensive survey of medieval English mortmain legislation from both the point of view of the crown and that of the Church. It examines methods of enforcement and evaluates their success. It traces the emergence of licensing policies and the increasing...
Cambridge University Press, 1978. — 293 p. As one of the richest and most powerful land-owning families in later medieval England, the Staffords played their leading part in the politics of their time. This book traces the often complex relations between the three Stafford Dukes of Buckingham and the Crown. In doing so it casts light upon the attitude of successive English...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 250 p. What was considered courteous table manner in Medieval England? Would children delight in playing hide-and-seek, follow-the-leader, and blind mans bluff? Harkening back to a time when men wore close-fitting bonnets tied under the chin and women adorned themselves with purses suspended from their belts with small daggers attached to the...
Boydell Press, 2004. — 190 p. Castle studies have been shaped and defined over the past half-century by the work of R. Allen Brown. His classic English Castles, renamed here to acknowledge its definitive approach to the subject, has never been superseded by other more recent studies, and is still the foundation study of the English, and Welsh, castles built between the Norman...
University of Ottawa, 2016. — 164 p. This thesis is an iconographic study of Saint-King Edward the Confessor. It focuses on the political and devotional functions of his images in twelfth to fourteenth century England. The images are not concerned with the historical Anglo-Saxon King, but rather depict an idealized and simplified version of Edward. The discrepancies between...
Tempus Publishing, 2004. — 224 p. In 1066 the English were conquered by the infamous William the Conqueror. However, the English did not just roll over and die before their oppressors; far from it. For over five years the English violently rebelled against the invading Normans, murdering quislings, burning towns and sacking cathedrals. Peter Rex tells the story of each...
Macmillan Education, 2002. — 206 p. The Lollards offers a brief but insightful guide to the entire history of England's only native medieval heretical movement. Beginning with its fourteenth century origins in the theology of the Oxford professor, John Wyclif, Richard Rex examines the spread of Lollardy across much of England until its eventual dissolution amidst the...
Notre Dame Press, 2023. — 408 p. — (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern) Nicole Rice’s original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation. The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy categorization. They were institutions of charity, medical care, and liturgical commemoration. At the same...
Methuen & Co in Association with The Jewish Historical Society of England, 1960. — 312 p. The purpose of the author is to correct, with the aid of all available evidence, current beliefs regarding the activities of the Jews in medieval England. Their relations with the Gentile community in which they lived are described, not as is conventionally imagined, but as these relations...
Methuen & Co in Association with The Jewish Historical Society of England, 1960. — 312 p. The purpose of the author is to correct, with the aid of all available evidence, current beliefs regarding the activities of the Jews in medieval England. Their relations with the Gentile community in which they lived are described, not as is conventionally imagined, but as these relations...
Blackwell Publishing, 2003. — 665 p. This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages. Addresses questions at the leading edge...
Brill, 2019. — 525 p. — (The Medieval Franciscans 14). This volume explores the rich diversity of the Franciscan contribution to the life of the order and its ministry throughout England between 1224 and c. 1350. The 21 contributions examine the friars' impact across the different strata of English society, from the parish churches, the missions, the royal courts and the...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 356 p. Compiled from the records of a survey of the kingdom of England commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085, Domesday Book is a key source for the history of England. However, despite over 200 years of intense academic study, its evidence has rarely been exploited to the full (partly owing to a lack of a critical edition). The essays in this...
Boydell Press, 1998. — 536 p. This study of Anglo-Norman Durham's history, architecture, art, and religious and literary culture covers much ground, including the Cathedral Priory and its relationship to monastic reform; the careers of the prince bishops; studies of the spectacular castle; the relationship between Durham and the Scottish kings; the architecture of the...
Routledge, 2021. — 208 р. First published in 1976, Nobles and the Noble Life, 1295-1500 offers a rounded picture of aristocratic life in England from the time Edward I began to call his great councillors together in ‘House of Lords’ through to the end of the Middle Ages. Professor Rosenthal’s treatment of the aristocracy takes full note of political and economic as well as...
Penguin Books, 2005. — 420 p. There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequate killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 337 p. The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance. During this period a mentality took hold which trusted to procedures of accountability as a means of controlling officers' conduct. The mentality was not inherently new, but it became qualitatively more complex and...
Collins and Brown, 1994. — 205 p. In Britain these considerations about the relationship of the present to the past have been lent added force by recent developments in the Community. Questions have again been asked about Britain's role in the world and about the background to her role with Europe. How close were those relations in the past? To what extent was England's...
Hambledon Continuum, 2005. — 304 p. The three Richards who ruled England in the Middle Ages were among the most controversial and celebrated of its rulers. Richard I ("Coeur de Lion", 1189-99) was a great crusading hero; Richard II (1377-99) was an authoritarian aesthete deposed by his cousin, Henry IV, and murdered; while Richard III (1483-85), as the murderer of his nephews,...
University of Wales Press, 2016. — 357 p. Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its...
The Boydell Press, 2008. — 228 p. In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less modest by his later standards. Most of his countrymen had not been on active service outside the realm for twenty years and more, if at all, yet over the course of the following four decades, up to the battle of Bannockburn in...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 301 p. There is a growing interest in the history of relations among the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish as the United Kingdom and Ireland begin to construct new political arrangements and to become more fully integrated into Europe. This book brings together the latest work on how these relations developed between 900 and 1300, a period...
Boydell & Brewer Press, 2018. — 234 p. Late medieval petitions, providing unique insights into medieval social and legal history, have attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent years. This wide-ranging collection brings two approaches into dialogue with each other: the study of royal justice and secular petitions presented to the English crown, and the study of papal...
Amberley Publishing, 2014. — 160 p. A full, lavishly illustrated study of a nobleman whose exploits became the stuff of medieval romance, once recounted in the same breath as Robin Hood. Ranulf de Blondeville was fabulously rich and powerful. He served six kings, endured difficult regime-change, fought his way across half of France and back and more than once turned wrested...
Bellona, 2003. — 195 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. It took place approximately 7 miles (11 kilometres) northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of...
Boydell and Brewer, 2013. — 240 p. The medieval Anglo-Norman prose chronicles are fascinating hybrids of history, legends and romance, building on the rich tradition of historical writing circulating in England at the time of their composition, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia" and the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle". Their prime subject is the history of England, but they also...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 224 p. Essays looking at the links between England and Europe in the long thirteenth century. The theme running through this volume is that of "England in Europe", with contributions tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, placing England in a European context, exploring connections between the insular world and continental...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 224 p. Essays looking at the links between England and Europe in the long thirteenth century. The theme running through this volume is that of "England in Europe", with contributions tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, placing England in a European context, exploring connections between the insular world and continental...
Hodder and Stoughton, 2015. — 304 p. At Runnymede, on the banks of the River Thames, on 15 June 1215, the seal of King John was attached to the Magna Carta, and peace descended upon the land. Or that's what successive generations have believed. But is it true? And have we been persuaded (or persuaded ourselves) that the events of 15 June 1215 not only ended a civil war between...
Boydell Press, 2007. — 301 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 29). Lay patronage of religious houses remained of considerable importance during the late medieval period; but this is the first full-length study dedicated to the subject. Based on a wide range of medieval documentary sources, including wills, monastic registers, inquisitions post mortem, cartularies...
London: Routledge, 1993. — 93 p. — (Lancaster Pamphlets). In this study of King Stephen's reign, Keith Stringer looks at the relationship between government, warfare, and the rise and fall of medieval states. Using primary sources and the most recent research, he offers an important re-evaluation of the so-called `Anarchy' and a radical reassessment of King Stephen's ability as a...
Brepols, 2006. — 334 p. This book explores the legal and theological thought of Master Vacarius (c.1115/20 - c.1200), the renowned twelfth-century jurist. It focuses on this Italian master's four works, composed in the second half of the twelfth century, which deal with the resolution of conflict in law and theology. Vacarius is a paradox for scholars. They have found it...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 474 p. — ISBN: 9780199251230. Since the Anglo-Norman period itself, the relations between the English and the Normans have formed a subject of lively debate. For most of that time, however, complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066 has ruled. This book first challenges that complacency,...
Routledge, 2018. — 227 p. First published in 1998, this book describes the surviving medieval remains there and the far more numerous manor houses and castles owned by the bishops, as well as their London houses. Apart from royal residences these are far the largest group of medieval domestic buildings of a single type that we have. The author describes how these buildings...
Routledge, 2014. — 442 p. A detailed survey which examines the major developments in English society during this period of social crises, population decline, agarian unrest, the introduction to enclosures - and political tensions particularly over succession. First published in 1983. John Aidan Francis Thomson (1934-2004) was Professor of Medieval History at Glasgow and a...
Routledge, 2014. — 442 p. A detailed survey which examines the major developments in English society during this period of social crises, population decline, agarian unrest, the introduction to enclosures - and political tensions particularly over succession. First published in 1983. John Aidan Francis Thomson (1934-2004) was Professor of Medieval History at Glasgow and a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 239 p. This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent. It examines the ways in which royal women were able to participate in traditional queenly...
Ozymandias Press, 2018. — 697 p. When John died, on October 19, 1216, the issue of the war between him and the barons was still doubtful. The arrival of Louis of France, eldest son of King Philip Augustus, had enabled the barons to win back much of the ground lost after John's early triumphs had forced them to call in the foreigner. Beyond the Humber the sturdy north-country...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 224 p. The many storied monarchs of twelfth century England lived, fought, loved, and died surrounded by their illegitimate relatives. While their many contributions have too often been overlooked, these illegitimate sons, daughters and siblings occupied crucial positions within the edifice of royal authority, serving their legitimate relatives as...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 224 p. The many storied monarchs of twelfth century England lived, fought, loved, and died surrounded by their illegitimate relatives. While their many contributions have too often been overlooked, these illegitimate sons, daughters and siblings occupied crucial positions within the edifice of royal authority, serving their legitimate relatives as...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 336 p. This book presents a study of the evolution of a professional judiciary in medieval England through the careers of forty-nine royal justices from the last decade of Henry II until 1239. Those years were crucial for the growth of the common law, producing the two legal treatises Glanvill and Bracton. The period also represents a...
Routledge, 2013. — 304 p. This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about...
Routledge, 2002. — 418 p. Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the...
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,...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 320 p. This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy. This involves a unique analysis of medieval lordship in action, as well as a re-imagining of the role of English kingship in the western British Isles and a rewriting of seventy-five years of Anglo-Irish history. By viewing...
Routledge, 2020. — 492 p. A Chronology of Medieval British History 1066–1307 covers events in British history, starting with the arrival of the new Norman ruling dynasty which "connected" British politics, culture, religion and society more closely to mainland Europe, and ending with Edward I’s death and Robert Bruce’s revolt in 1307. The book is designed as a year-by-year...
Routledge, 2020. — 497 p. A Chronology of Medieval British History 1307–1485 is a year-by-year guide to political, military, religious and cultural developments in the states within the British Isles from 1307-1485. The book uses a range of primary sources to provide a detailed and comprehensive narrative of events as they occurred. Throughout, the dating and accuracy of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 240 p. Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the period from the death of William I to the reign of Edward III and a little beyond. As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which History could easily have taken a different turn and analyses the possible and likely...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 239 p. Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the period from the death of William I to the reign of Edward III and a little beyond. As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which History could easily have taken a different turn and analyses the possible and likely...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 256 p. Royal murder mysteries never fail to intrigue readers and TV viewers. Here are some of the most haunting and even horrific episodes from the middle ages, based on latest historical research and historiography, and authentic and rare sources, including archaeology and DNA evidence, uncovering wonderful tales of pathos, tragedy, suffering and...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 256 p. Royal murder mysteries never fail to intrigue readers and TV viewers. Here are some of the most haunting and even horrific episodes from the middle ages, based on latest historical research and historiography, and authentic and rare sources, including archaeology and DNA evidence, uncovering wonderful tales of pathos, tragedy, suffering and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 256 p. — (An Alternative History of Britain). Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner? Among the...
Routledge, 2018. — 559 p. First published in 1950 in its 7th edition, this volume became a standard work. Covering 213 years, it begins with Edward I and proceeds through events including the Black Death and the Hundred Years War to Edward IV. In doing so, the author balanced political, constitutional, social and economic aspects of England’s national evolution.
Robinson, 2011. — 352 p. From the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Bosworth Field - how Britain was invaded and become a nation. The first volume in the stunning four volume Brief History of Britain series. From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Normandy, killed King Harold and...
Robinson, 2011. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1845293967 From the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Bosworth Field - how Britain was invaded and become a nation. The first volume in the stunning four volume Brief History of Britain series. From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Normandy,...
Robinson, 2011. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1845293967 From the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Bosworth Field - how Britain was invaded and become a nation. The first volume in the stunning four volume Brief History of Britain series. From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Normandy,...
Routledge, 2021. — 224 p. In the Middle Ages the household was such a fundamental part of the social structure that the post-1350 era has been termed ‘the Age of the Household.’ Academic studies have generally focused on the grand, itinerant households of the wealthy aristocracy, illuminating the lifestyles and pastimes of this elite class. Using the household accounts of Alice...
Manchester University Press, 1995. — 243 p. While there is increasing interest in the lives of medieval women, the documentary evidence for their activities remains little known. This book provides a collection of sources for an important and influential group of women in medieval England, and examines changes in their role and activities between 1066 and 1500.
The History Press, 2018. — 320 p. Traditionally, the Wars of the Roses – one of the bloodiest conflicts on English soil – began in 1455, when the Duke of York attacked King Henry VI’s army in the narrow streets of St Albans. But this conflict did not spring up overnight. Blood Roses traces it back to the beginning. Starting in 1245 with the founding of the House of Lancaster,...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 248 p. In 1254 the teenage heir to the English throne married a Spanish bride, the sister of the king of Castile, in Burgos, and their marriage of thirty-six years proved to be one of the great royal romances of the Middle Ages. Edward I of England and Leonor of Castile had at least fourteen children together, though only six survived into...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 255 p. For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was transformative. Peering through the looking-glass to focus on one of Europe’s largest...
Pen and Sword Books, 2022. — 184 p. Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieval ancestors, in an informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in England from 1250 to 1450. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behaviour, and the ways in which these attitudes were often determined by...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. — 288 p. From its creation in the early fourteenth century to its dissolution in the sixteenth, the nunnery at Dartford was among the richest in England. Although obliged to support not only its own community but also a priory of Dominican friars at King's Langley, Dartford prospered. Records attest to the business skill of the Dartford...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 289 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Fourth Series 66). This is a fascinating study of religious culture in England from 1050 to 1250. Drawing on the wealth of material about religious belief and practice that survives in the chronicles, Carl Watkins explores accounts of signs, prophecies, astrology, magic,...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 232 p. Medieval manors have long been the subject of academic study, though the ways in which these houses reflected and shaped - and were shaped by - their occupants to express social authority have not yet been fully explored. This book undertakes a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of them, aiming to provide a fuller account of how...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 192 p. 1215 is one of the most famous dates in English history, and with good reason, since it marks the signing of the Magna Carta by King John and the English barons, which altered the entire course of English and world history. John Lackland was born to King Henry II and Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine in December, 1166; he was the youngest of five...
Pen and Sword Books, 2022. — 239 p. In August 1347 six bare footed men knelt before King Edward III with nooses around their necks to beg for their lives and present him with the keys to Calais. This was the dramatic beginning of Calais becoming England’s first colony and an integral part of the kingdom for over two hundred years. From its capture to the present day, Calais has...
Routledge, 2013. — 445 p. This distinguished historical narrative of the pre-Tudor period considers the major themes of the period: Hundred Year's War, War of the Roses, the restoration of order, reformation of the Church and the opening phase in the development of a new England.
Quercus, 2014. — 320 p. England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but also most notorious kings, the house of Plantagenet would reign for over 300 blood-soaked, yet...
Quercus, 2014. — 320 p. England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but also most notorious kings, the house of Plantagenet would reign for over 300 blood-soaked, yet...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 252 p. Britain of the fifteenth century was rife with social change, religious dissent, and political upheaval. Amid this ferment lived John Capgrave - Austin friar, doctor of theology, leading figure in East Anglian society, and noted author. Nowhere are the tensions and anxieties of this critical period, spanning the close of the...
Overlook Hardcover, 2009. — 240 p. Year 1066 remains the most famous date in English history. Harriet Harvey Wood’s original and fascinating book tells a story that few of us know. She shows that, rather than bringing culture and enlightenment to England, the Normans’ aggressive and illegal invasion destroyed a long-established and highly developed civilization, far ahead of other...
Routledge, 2022. — 357 p. This book is the first full-length biography of Joan of Navarre, a fascinating royal woman who became duchess of Brittany and queen consort of England through her two marriages in 1386 and 1403 respectively. Joan was enmeshed in the turbulent politics of the later Middle Ages as her extensive family and marital connections meant she was related to most...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 200 p. Studies in Church Life in England under Edward III was first published in 1934 as part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought series. Wood-Legh has chosen five topics of church history which frequently occur in the Patent Rolls of Edward III. Chancery documents were valuable sources of information on aspects of the...
Yale: Yale University Press, 2016. - 373 p. In this revelatory work of social history, C. M. Woolgar shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of sources, he charts how emerging technologies as well as an influx of new flavors and trends from abroad had an impact on...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 364 p. — (Medieval History and Archaeology). Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages. In the last two decades, the potential for the study of diet in medieval England has changed markedly: historians have addressed sources in new ways; material from a wide range of sites has been processed by zooarchaeologists...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 262 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Saints and their Communities offers a new approach to the study of lay religion as evidenced in collections of miracle narratives in twelfth-century England. There are a number of problems associated with the interpretation of this hagiographical genre and an extended introduction discusses these. The...
М.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1962. — 381 стр. Одно из значительнейших в советской медиевистике исследований. В книге рассматриваются проблемы социальной истории феодальной деревни в средневековой Англии. Над этой титанической по объему переработанных данных книгой автор работал на протяжении шестнадцати лет, с 1945 по 1961 год. В своих работах по аграрной истории Англии...
М.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1962. — 381 стр. Одно из значительнейших в советской медиевистике исследований. В книге рассматриваются проблемы социальной истории феодальной деревни в средневековой Англии. Над этой титанической по объему переработанных данных книгой автор работал на протяжении шестнадцати лет, с 1945 по 1961 год. В своих работах по аграрной истории Англии...
ЖМНП. СПб.: Типография В. С. Балашева, 1886 V- 73 c.; VIII- 35 c.; IX -39 c.; XI- 20 c.; XII- 21; 1887 IV-32 c.; V- 39 c.
Докторская диссертация П. Г. Виноградова, посвящённая истории средневековой Англии — «Исследования по социальной истории Англии в средние века» (1887).
В дальнейшем он продолжал исследования проблемы происхождения английского феодализма, истории английского...
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...
Сборник статей. М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1963. — 456 с. Настоящий сборник избранных статей известного советского историка, академика Е. А. Косминского, включает 15 его работ, опубликованных в разное время и ставших ныне в значительной степени библиографической редкостью. Хронологически сборник охватывает более чем 30-летний период научной деятельности Е. А....
Сборник статей. М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1963. — 456 с. Настоящий сборник избранных статей известного советского историка, академика Е. А. Косминского, включает 15 его работ, опубликованных в разное время и ставших ныне в значительной степени библиографической редкостью. Хронологически сборник охватывает более чем 30-летний период научной деятельности Е. А....
М.: Наука, 1987. — 283 с. Книга представляет значительную часть научного наследия доктора исторических наук Я. А. Левицкого (1906-1970) - известного специалиста в области изучения истории Англии, одного из ведущих советских урбанистов. Основное место в книге занимает публикация рукописных материалов из архива ученого: исследование Книги Страшного суда, лекции по истории...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 283 с. Книга представляет значительную часть научного наследия доктора исторических наук Я. А. Левицкого (1906-1970) - известного специалиста в области изучения истории Англии, одного из ведущих советских урбанистов. Основное место в книге занимает публикация рукописных материалов из архива ученого: исследование Книги Страшного суда, лекции по истории...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1936. — 239 с. Работа академика Д. М. Петрушевского «Памятники истории Англии XI—XIII вв.» дает собрание документов по политической истории средневековой Англии XI—XIII вв. Наиболее важные документы приводятся и в латинских подлинниках. Книга снабжена введением акад. Д. М. Петрушевского. От издательства Введение акад. Д. М. Петрушевского Ордонанс Вильгельма...
Киров: Изд-во ВятГУ, 2007. — 204 с. В книге исследуются социальные процессы, происходящие в английском городе позднего Средневековья. Использован широкий междисциплинарный подход: автор основывает свои выводы на данных медиевистики, социологии и социальной психологии. Впервые в отечественной науке многофакторная теория стратификации получила конкретное применение к городскому...
Киров: Изд-во ВятГУ, 2007. — 204 с. В книге исследуются социальные процессы, происходящие в английском городе позднего Средневековья. Использован широкий междисциплинарный подход: автор основывает свои выводы на данных медиевистики, социологии и социальной психологии. Впервые в отечественной науке многофакторная теория стратификации получила конкретное применение к городскому...
Пер. с англ. Т. Ковалевской. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2021. — 437 с. — (Интеллектуальная история). В 1144 году возле стен Норвича, города в Восточной Англии, был найден изувеченный труп молодого подмастерья Уильяма. По городу, а вскоре и за его пределами прошла молва, будто убийство - дело рук евреев, желавших надругаться над христианской верой. Именно с этого...
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