The Fourteenth Century

Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835301

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Fourteenth Century England by Chris Given-Wilson Pdf

The essays collected here present the fruits of the most recent research on aspects of the history, politics and culture of England during the long' fourteenth century - roughly speaking from the reign of Edward I to the reign of Henry V. Based on a range of primary sources, they are both original and challenging in their conclusions. Several of the articles touch in one way or another upon the subject of warfare, but the approaches which they adopt are significantly different, ranging from an analysis of the medieval theory of self-defence to an investigation of the relative utility of narrative and documentary sources for a specific campaign. Literary texts such as Barbour's Bruce are also discussed, and a re-evaluation of one particular set of records indicates that, in this case at least, the impact of the Black Death of 1348-9 may have been even more devastating than is usually thought. Chris Given-Wilson is Professor of Late Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews. Contributors: Susan Foran, Penny Lawne, Paula Arthur, Graham E. St John, Diana Tyson, David Green, Jessica Lutkin, Rory Cox, Adrian R. Bell

Author : Derek Hill
Publisher : Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN : 1903153875

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Inquisition in the Fourteenth Century by Derek Hill Pdf

An investigation of two manuals of inquisition reveals much about the practice in action. The Inquisition played a central role in European history. It moulded societies by enforcing religious and intellectual unity; it helped develop the judicial and police techniques which are the basis of those used today; and it helped lay the foundations for the persecution of witches. An understanding of the Inquisition is therefore essential to the late medieval and early modern periods. This book looks at how the philosophy and practice of Inquisition developed in the fourteenth century. It saw the proliferation of heresies defined by the Church (notably the Spiritual Franciscans and Beguines) and the classifcation of many more magical practices as heresy.The consequentialwidening of the Inquisition's role in turn led to it being seen as an essential part of the Church and the guardian of all the Church's doctrinal boundaries; the inclusion of magic in particular also changed the Inquisition's attitude towards suspects, and the use of torture became systematised and regularised. These changes are charted here through close attention to the inquisitorial manuals of Bernard Gui and Nicholas Eymerich, using other sourceswhere available. Gui's and Eymerich's personalities were important factors. Gui was a successful insider, Eymerich a maverick, but Eymerich's work had the greater long-term influence. Through them we can see the Inquisition in action. DEREK HILL gained his PhD from the University of London.

Author : Michael Goodich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226302959

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Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century by Michael Goodich Pdf

As war, pestilence, and famine spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, so did reports of miracles, of hopeless victims wondrously saved from disaster. These "rescue miracles," recorded by over one hundred fourteenth-century cults, are the basis of Michael Goodich's account of the miraculous in everyday medieval life. Rescue miracles offer a wide range of voices rarely heard in medieval history, from women and children to peasants and urban artisans. They tell of salvation not just from the ravages of nature and war, but from the vagaries of a violent society—crime, unfair judicial practices, domestic squabbles, and communal or factional conflict. The stories speak to a collapse of confidence in decaying institutions, from the law to the market to feudal authority. Particularly, the miraculous escapes documented during the Hundred Years' War, the Italian communal wars, and other conflicts are vivid testimony to the end of aristocratic warfare and the growing victimization of noncombatants. Miracles, Goodich finds, represent the transcendent and unifying force of faith in a time of widespread distress and the hopeless conditions endured by the common people of the Middle Ages. Just as the lives of the saints, once dismissed as church propaganda, have become valuable to historians, so have rescue miracles, as evidence of an underlying medieval mentalite. This work expands our knowledge of that state of mind and the grim conditions that colored and shaped it.

Author : Martin Bauch,Gerrit Jasper Schenk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110657968

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The Crisis of the 14th Century by Martin Bauch,Gerrit Jasper Schenk Pdf

Pre-modern critical interactions of nature and society can best be studied during the so-called "Crisis of the 14th Century". While historiography has long ignored the environmental framing of historcial processes and scientists have over-emphasized nature's impact on the course of human history, this volume tries to describe the at times complex modes of the late-medieval relationship of man and nature. The idea of 'teleconnection', borrowed from the geosciences, describes the influence of atmospheric circulation patterns often over long distances. It seems that there were 'teleconnections' in society, too. So this volumes aims to examine man-environment interactions mainly in the 14th century from all over Europe and beyond. It integrates contributions from different disciplines on impact, perception and reaction of environmental change and natural extreme events on late Medieval societies. For humanists from all historical disciplines it offers an approach how to integrate written and even scientific evidence on environmental change in established and new fields of historical research. For scientists it demonstrates the contributions scholars from the humanities can provide for discussion on past environmental changes.

Author : William Abel Pantin
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : England
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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the english church in the fourteenth century by William Abel Pantin Pdf

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345349576

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A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman Pdf

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary

Author : Joel Kaye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521793866

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Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century by Joel Kaye Pdf

This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought.

Author : Sandra Baragli
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892368594

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European Art of the Fourteenth Century by Sandra Baragli Pdf

Fourteenth-century Europe was ravaged by famine, war, and, most devastatingly, the Black Plague. These widespread crises inspired a mystical religiosity, which emphasized both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering, producing emotionally charged and often graphic depictions of the Crucifixion and the martyrdoms of the saints. This third volume in the Art through the Centuries series highlights the most noteworthy concepts, geographic centers, and artists of this turbulent century. Important facts about the subjects under discussion are summarized in the margins of each entry, and salient features of the illustrated art works are identified and discussed.

Author : Andrea Ruddick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107652507

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English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century by Andrea Ruddick Pdf

This broad-ranging study explores the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England and sets it in its political and constitutional context for the first time. Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic relationship between nationality and subjecthood in the king of England's domains, a sense of English identity was deeply embedded in the mindset of a significant section of political society. Using previously neglected official records as well as familiar literary sources, the book reassesses the role of the English language in fourteenth-century national sentiment and questions the traditional reliance on the English vernacular as an index of national feeling. Positioning national identity as central to our understanding of late medieval society, culture, religion and politics, the book represents a significant contribution not only to the political history of late medieval England, but also to the growing debate on the nature and origins of states, nations and nationalism in Europe.

Author : Gertrud Jaron Lewis
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0888441258

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By Women, for Women, about Women by Gertrud Jaron Lewis Pdf

Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134751419

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The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages by Chris Given-Wilson Pdf

First Published in 2004. Four things dominated the life of the mediaeval noble: warfare, politics, land and family. It is with these central themes that this book is concerned. It encompasses the whole of the upper segment of the late medieval society; examines the relation of social status and political influence; describes the noble household and council; examines in detail the territorial and familial policies pursued by great landholders; emphasises the inter-relationship of local and national affairs; is arranged thematically, making it ideal for student use and has implications for the whole medieval period.

Author : Anya Seton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544222885

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Katherine by Anya Seton Pdf

John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.

Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107495128

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music by Mark Everist Pdf

From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques - the key areas of traditional music histories; next taking a topographical view of the subject - from Italy, German-speaking lands, and the Iberian Peninsula; and concludes with chapters on such issues as liturgy, vernacular poetry and reception. Rather than presenting merely a chronological view of the history of medieval music, the volume instead focuses on technical and cultural aspects of the subject. Over nineteen informative chapters, fifteen world-leading scholars give a perspective on the music of the Middle Ages that will serve as a point of orientation for the informed listener and reader, and is a must-have guide for anyone with an interest in listening to and understanding medieval music.

Author : James Bothwell,P. J. P. Goldberg,W. M. Ormrod
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1903153042

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The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-century England by James Bothwell,P. J. P. Goldberg,W. M. Ormrod Pdf

Papers from the Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fourteenth Century held at the University of York in July 1998.

Author : Philip Slavin
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Famines
ISBN : 250354780X

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Experiencing Famine in Fourteenth-century Britain by Philip Slavin Pdf

The agrarian crisis of 1315-17, known to history as the Great Famine, was one of the most devastating environmental crises to hit Europe within the last two millennia. The almost biblical flooding of 1314-16 brought about a series of crop failures, triggering a widespread agricultural crisis that unfolded into a catastrophic famine, which hit both human and animal populations with unprecedented force. The impact of this crisis, and the major long-term environmental consequences that followed, thus mark a truly watershed moment in European history. This volume provides an in-depth study of the Great Famine as it affected the British Isles, but through this focused approach, it also offers new insights into the late-medieval North European economy and society at a time of political, socio-economic, and biological shocks and crises. Close analysis of contemporary archival sources reveals that the Great Famine was a highly complex phenomenon made by both Nature and man; and this is reflected in a highly interdisciplinary approach that studies climate, economy, demography, and health, as well as the way in which human behaviour further exacerbated the impact of famine.