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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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Northumberland Pleas from the Curia Regis and Assize Rolls
Author: Northumberland Pleas from the Curia Regis and Assize Rolls, 1198-1272
Author: England. Curia RegisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northumberland
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Northumberland-Pleas from the Curia regis and assize rolls
Author: Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011
Author: Publisher: Douglas Richardson
ISBN: 1461045207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2635
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Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England
Author: Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804765901
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Homicide was a frequent occurrence in medieval England. Indeed, violence was regarded as an acceptable, and often necessary, part of life. These are the conclusions reached by the author in his study of homicide patterns in London, Bristol, and five English counties from 1202 to 1276. Using quantitative methods, the author analyzes murder as a social relationship that can tell us much about medieval life and its social organization, much that would otherwise remain unknown. Given investigates murder rates, violent conflicts between family members, masters, servants, and neighbors, and the collaboration between these same groups in assaulting others. He also explores the socio-economic status of killers and victims, the treatment of killers in court, including what attitudes toward violence can be gleaned from judicial verdicts, the effects of urbanization of patterns of homicide, and social factors that impeded or encouraged recourse to violence.
Henry III
Author: David CarpenterPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300255500
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III’s rule, from when he first assumed the crown to the moment his personal rule ended Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parliament. Pacific, conciliatory, and deeply religious, Henry brought many years of peace to England and rebuilt Westminster Abbey in honor of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor. He poured money into embellishing his palaces and creating a magnificent court. Yet this investment in "soft power" did not prevent a great revolution in 1258, led by Simon de Montfort, ending Henry's personal rule.Eminent historian David Carpenter brings to life Henry's character and reign as never before. Using source material of unparalleled richness—material that makes it possible to get closer to Henry than any other medieval monarch—Carpenter stresses the king’s achievements as well as his failures while offering an entirely new perspective on the intimate connections between medieval politics and religion.
Laywomen and the Crusade in England, 1150-1300
Author: DR GORDON M. REYNOLDSPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1837652244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Considers how elite women could participate in Crusade, their means and motivations. The popular perception of the medieval Crusades is of conflicts spanning from the Holy Land to the Baltic, with huge armies of religious zealots led by knights wearing crosses. However, the reality is far more nuanced. The vast majority of those living in western Europe did not go on crusade at all. But that does not mean that crusading was not on their minds, or that they could not influence the movement. They urged others to take up the cross, provided financial support, and prayed for the campaigns in the Holy Land; for them, this was crusade. This book investigates how English laywomen were encouraged to support crusades and identify with holy war during the Middle Ages, challenging preconceptions of what crusade "meant", and bringing out the diverse ways of their participation. It draws on detailed analysis of cartularies, judicial records, chronicles and lyrical sources; it also examines the rich material culture of commemoration that celebrated the endeavour, alongside the papal propaganda which idealised women's sponsorship of crusade. This study therefore sheds new light not only on the role of women in crusade, but on their influence and piety more generally.
Medieval Merchant Venturers
Author: E.M Carus-WilsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113658286X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
First published in 1967, this superb collection of essays on trade in the Middle Ages has been a major contribution to modern medieval studies. Professor Carus-Wilson examines: * fifteenth-century Bristol * trade with Iceland * the Merchant Adventurers of London * the thirteenth-century cloth industry (with its highly developed capitalist system) * the export of English woollen cloth * the wine trade. Each paper is firmly rooted in original research and contemporary sources such as customs returns and company minutes, and, in addition, her expose of the dubious accuracy of Aulnage accounts is widely recognised as a classic.
Norman Expansion
Author: Keith J. StringerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317086678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Normans had a formative influence on the development of states and societies in the British Isles, southern Italy and the Levant. Their achievements still resonate powerfully today, and represent a vital field of historical study. But how far did colonial elites define themselves as Norman, and to what extent were they categorized as such by others? What were the defining attributes of the supremacies achieved by the Normans, and by other incomers associated with them, and how decisive and diverse was the impact of their influence on local power-structures and native societies? How readily did they reach accommodations with those societies, and how might their own identities be renegotiated within the context of cross-cultural encounters? And, in terms of the progress and practices of state-formation, what was the balance between ’old’ and ’new’? These are some of the key questions addressed in this collection of essays, which also treats the Normans as a genuinely European phenomenon. Norman activity in the British Isles and in the Mediterranean lands receives equal coverage; and the topics explored include identities and identification, marriage policies, acculturation, the pre-existing landscapes of power and how far they were transformed, castle-building strategies, the nature of frontiers, urban government, and law and legislation. This volume therefore serves both to illustrate and to open up for fresh debate many of the salient themes concerning the Norman experience of diaspora and settlement. At the same time, it seeks to underscore how the dynamics, character and consequences of Norman expansion - and the connections, continuities and contrasts - can better be appreciated by taking the wider Norman world, or worlds, as the focus for collective study.
English Episcopal Acta
Author: M. G. SnapePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197262351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This volume, the second of two to cover the years 1196-1237, publishes the acta of Philip of Poitou, Richard Marsh and Richard Poore. Appendices present documents other than acta, including personal letters and itineraries. Pagination continues from the previous volume.