Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
The Normans in South Wales, 1070–1171
Author: Lynn H. NelsonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292781075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A frontier has been called "an area inviting entrance." For the Norman invaders of England the Welsh peninsula was such an area. Fertile forested lowlands invited agricultural occupation; a fierce but primitive and disunited native population was scarcely a formidable deterrent. In The Normans in South Wales, Lynn H. Nelson provides a comprehensive history of the century during which the Normans accomplished this occupation. Skillfully he combines facts and statistics gleaned from a variety of original sources—The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Domesday Book, Church records, charters of the kings and of the marcher lords, and more imaginative literary sources such as the chanson de geste and the frontier epic—to give a vivid picture of a century of strife. He describes the fluctuating conflict between Norman invaders in the lowlands and Welsh tribesmen in the highlands; the hard struggle of medieval frontiersmen to take from the new land a profit commensurate with their labors; the development of a Cambro-Norman society distinct and quite different from the Anglo-Norman culture which engendered it; and the attempt of the frontiersman to prevent the Anglo-Norman authorities from taking control of the lands he had won. The turbulent Welsh tribes provided an ever present harassment along the frontier, and Nelson begins his presentation with an account of the failure of the Saxons to control them. He examines the methods adopted by William the Conqueror to cope with the problem—the creation of the great marcher lordships and the subsequent problems in controlling these lordships—and the weakness of some Anglo-Norman kings and the strength of others. By 1171 the conquest of the Welsh frontier was complete; but as Nelson points out, this conquest was strangely limited. The frontier, which extended throughout the lowlands of Wales, stopped at the 600-foot contour line in the mountains. In his final chapter Nelson speculates upon the curious fact that large areas of seemingly inviting moorlands lying above this line remained closed to the Cambro-Norman, and his speculations lead him to some interesting inferences about the nature of the frontier's influence upon the civilization which moves in to occupy it.
The Kings and Their Hawks
Author: Robin S. OgginsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300100587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Perhaps the equivalent of polo-playing today, the sport of falconry was the preserve of the wealthy and royalty, regarded as both a suitable and enjoyable leisure activity, and as a source of status and prestige.
Manual of Collections of Treaties and of Collections Relating to Treaties
Author: Denys Peter MyersPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae, Et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica, Inter Reges Angliae Et Alios Quosvis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes, Vel Communitates ... [1069-1383] ...
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Author: Thomas RymerPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : la
Pages : 182
Book Description
The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis
Author: Daniel WillimanPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501510010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 E IV: the Latin Chronicle (from the Creation to 1300) of Guillaume de Nangis, copied in the abbey library of St-Denis-en-France. The authors shed new light on the production process, identifying the illuminator of the Royal MS and naming the scribe. Detailed evidence links the codex to important events in history, such as the Council of Constance, and famous actors like Jean de France, duc de Berry, Sigismund of Luxembourg, Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, and Henry VIII, to name a few. The authors show how it traveled from one capital to the other, narrating the entire life and interesting times of this codex. Another dimension of this study accounts for all twenty-two copies of the Chronicle, now scattered in nine cities from London to Vienna, placing each one in a scrupulously drawn stemma codicum and sketching its history.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Jean Du Tillet and the French Wars of Religion
Author: Jean Du TilletPublisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Normans in South Wales, 1071-1171
Author: Lynn Harry NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Normans
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description