Author: Philip FallePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An Account of the Isle of Jersey, the Greatest of Those Islands that are Now the Only Remainder of the English Dominions in France
Author: Philip FalleAn Account of the Isle of Jersey
Author: Philip FalleAn Account of the Isle of Jersey, the Greatest of Those Islands that are Now the Only Remainder of the English Dominions in France,... by Philip Falle,...
Author: Philip FalleAn Account of the Isle of Jersey, the Greatest of Those Islands that are Now the Only Remainder of the English Dominions in France
Author: Philip FalleThe Channel Islands, 1370-1640
Author: Tim ThorntonPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Charts the history of Jersey and Guernsey, showing their crucial importance for England in the period. This book surveys the history of the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey in the late medieval and early modern periods, focusing on political, social and religious history. The islands' regular tangential appearance in histories ofEngland and the British Isles has long suggested the need for a more systematic account from the perspective of the islands themselves. Jersey and Guernsey were at the forefront of attempts by the English kings in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries to maintain and extend their dominions in France. During the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudor period, they were frequently the refuge for claimants and plotters. Throughout the Reformation, they were a leading centre of Presbyterianism. Later, they were strategically important during the continental wars of Elizabeth's reign. The book charts all these events in a comprehensive way. In addition, it shows how the islands' relationship with central power in England varied but never saw a simple subjection to centralised uniform authority, how Jersey and Guernsey maintained links with Normandy, Brittany and France more widely, and how politics, religion, society and culture developed in the islands themselves. Tim Thornton is Professor of History and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at the University of Huddersfield, having been previously Dean of the School of Music, Humanities and Media. He is the author of Cheshire and the Tudor State and Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England, both of which are published by Boydell & Brewer.
The Channel
Author: Renaud MorieuxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316489736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century, in both a metaphorical and a material sense. Instead of arguing that Britain's insularity kept it spatially and intellectually segregated from the Continent, Renaud Morieux focuses on the Channel as a zone of contact. The 'narrow sea' was a shifting frontier between states and a space of exchange between populations. This richly textured history shows how the maritime border was imagined by cartographers and legal theorists, delimited by state administrators and transgressed by migrants. It approaches French and English fishermen, smugglers and merchants as transnational actors, whose everyday practices were entangled. The variation of scales of analysis enriches theoretical and empirical understandings of Anglo-French relations, and reassesses the question of Britain's deep historical connections with Europe.
Anecdotes of British Topography
Author: Richard GoughPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108064469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 823
Book Description
This 1768 work provides a thorough guide to the sources available for the study of British and Irish antiquities.
The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation
Author: Alexander ChalmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Authority and Consent in Tudor England
Author: George BernardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351956620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Brought together as a tribute to the distinguished Tudor historian C.S.L. Davies, the essays in this collection address key themes in the current historiography of the Tudor period. These include the nature, causes and consequences of change in English government, society and religion, the relationship of centre, localities and peripheral areas in the Tudor state, the regulation of belief and conduct, and the dynamics of England's relations with her neighbours. The contributors, colleagues and students of Cliff Davies, are all leading scholars who have provided fresh and interesting essays reflecting the wide ranging inquisitiveness characteristic of his own work. They seek to cross as he has done the traditional boundaries between the medieval and early modern periods and between social, political and religious history. A coherent collection in their own right, these essays, by showing the many new directions open to those studying the Tudor period, provide a fitting tribute to such an influential scholar.
Author: Alexander Chalmers