Author: Howard Levi GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Harvard Historical Studies
Author: Howard Levi GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
English Field Systems
Author: Howard Levi GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Lords and Lordship in the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Rees DaviesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199542910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
It is well known that political, economic, and social power in the British Isles in the Middle Ages lay in the hands of a small group of domini-lords. In his final book, the late Sir Rees Davies explores the personalities of these magnates, the nature of their lordship, and the ways in which it was expressed in a diverse and divided region in the period 1272-1422. Although their right to rule was rarely questioned, the lords flaunted their identity and superiority through the promotion of heraldic lore, the use of elevated forms of address, and by the extravagant display of their wealth and power. Their domestic routine, furnishings, dress, diet, artistic preferences, and pastimes all spoke of a lifestyle of privilege and authority. Warfare was a constant element in their lives, affording access to riches and reputation, but also carrying the danger of capture, ruin and even death, while their enthusiasm for crusades and tournaments testified to their energy and bellicose inclinations. Above all, underpinning the lords' control of land was their control of men-a complex system of dependence and reward that Davies restores to central significance by studying the British Isles as a whole. The exercise and experience of lordship was far more varied than the English model alone would suggest.
Harvard University Bulletin
Author: Bulletin of More Important Accessions with Bibliographical Contributions
Author: Justin WinsorHarvard University Bulletin
Author: Harvard UniversityThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
The First English Empire
Author: R. R. DaviesPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191543268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The future of the United Kingdom is an increasingly vexed question. This book traces the roots of the issue 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 different degrees, been subjugated to his authority; contemporaries were even comparing him with King Arthur. This was the culmination of a remarkable English advance into the outer zones of the British Isles in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The advance was not only a matter of military power, political control, and governmental and legal institutions; it also involved extensive colonization and the absorption of these outer zones into the economic and cultural orbit of an England-dominated world. What remained to be seen was how stable (especially in Scotland and Ireland) was this English 'empire'; how far the northern and western parts of the British Isles could be absorbed into an English-centred polity and society; and to what extent did the early and self-confident development of English identity determine the relationships between England and the rest of the British Isles. The answers to those questions would be shaped by the past of the country that was England; the answers would also cast their shadow over the future of the British Isles for centuries to come.
Author: Huw Walters