Author: Edward WalfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Antiquary
Author: Edward WalfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
English Medieval Books
Author: Alan CoatesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198207566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This history of the books of Reading Abbey covers the period from the abbey's foundation to its dissolution, and follows up the dispersal of the book collections to c.1610. It provides valuable material on the ways in which books were used, and about the intellectual life of medieval monastery. Alan Coates makes an important contribution to our understanding of the fate of monastic books and book-collecting in the post-Dissolution period.
Henry I
Author: C. Warren HollisterPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300143729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, ruled from 1100 to 1135, a time of fundamental change in the Anglo-Norman world. This long-awaited biography, written by one of the most distinguished medievalists of his generation, offers a major reassessment of Henry’s character and reign. Challenging the dark and dated portrait of the king as brutal, greedy, and repressive, it argues instead that Henry’s rule was based on reason and order. C. Warren Hollister points out that Henry laid the foundations for judicial and financial institutions usually attributed to his grandson, Henry II. Royal government was centralized and systematized, leading to firm, stable, and peaceful rule for his subjects in both England and Normandy. By mid-reign Henry I was the most powerful king in Western Europe, and with astute diplomacy, an intelligence network, and strategic marriages of his children (legitimate and illegitimate), he was able to undermine the various coalitions mounted against him. Henry strove throughout his reign to solidify the Anglo-Norman dynasty, and his marriage linked the Normans to the Old English line. Hollister vividly describes Henry’s life and reign, places them against the political background of the time, and provides analytical studies of the king and his magnates, the royal administration, and relations between king and church. The resulting volume is one that will be welcomed by students and general readers alike.
The Antiquary
Author: The Bookman
Author: The Literary Year-book
Author: Frederick George AflaloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Academy
Author: Urban Society and Monastic Lordship in Reading, 1350-1600
Author: Joe ChickPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277564
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Interrogates the standard view of turbulent and violent town-abbey relations through a combination of traditional and new research techniques.
Anglia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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