Author: Charles J. RobinsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
A History of the Castles of Herefordshire
Author: Charles J. RobinsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles
Author: Ella S. ArmitagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Norman
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: The Publisher
Author: Lords of the Central Marches
Author: Brock HoldenPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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 frontier society that developed was the feudal honour and its court, and in the March it survived as a functioning entity much longer than in England. However, in the twelfth century, as the growing power of the English crown threatened Marcher honours, their lords asserted their independence from the king's courts, and the March became a land where 'the king's writ did not run'. At the same time, the increased military capability of their Welsh adversaries put the Marcher lordships under enormous military and financial strain. Brock Holden describes how this unusual frontier society developed in reaction to both the challenge of the native Welsh and the power of the English kings. Through a multi-faceted examination-political, economic, social, legal, and military-of the lordships of the Central March of Wales, it examines how the 'feudal matrix' of Marcher power developed over the course of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries.
The Castles and Abbeys of England
Author: William BeattiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abbeys
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
British Books
Author: William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England
Author: William (of Malmesbury)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Beauties of England and Wales
Author: The Athenæum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description