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Author : Jack Robert Lander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018621857
Author : M.H. Keen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134483037
First published to wide critical acclaim in 1973, England in the Later Middle Ages has become a seminal text for students studying this diverse, complex period. This spirited work surveys the period from Edward I to the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, which heralded in the Tudor Age. The second edition of this book, while maintaining the character of the original, brings the study up to date. Each chapter includes a discussion of the historiographical developments of the last decade and the author takes a fresh look at the changing world of the Later Middle Ages, particularly the plague and the economy. Also included is a rewritten introduction.
Author : Clayton J. Drees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781567507492
As part of a unique series covering the grand sweep of Western civilization from ancient to present times, this biographical dictionary provides introductory information on 315 leading cultural figures of late medieval and early modern Europe. Taking a cultural approach not typically found in general biographical dictionaries, the work includes literary, philosophical, artistic, military, religious, humanistic, musical, economic, and exploratory figures. Political figures are included only if they patronized the arts, and coverage focuses on their cultural impact. Figures from western European countries, such as Italy, France, England, Iberia, the Low Countries, and the Holy Roman Empire predominate, but outlying areas such as Scotland, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe are also represented. Late medieval Europe was an age of crisis. With the Papacy removed to Avignon, the schism in the Catholic Church shook the very core of medieval belief. The Hundred Years' War devastated France. The Black Death decimated the population. Yet out of this crisis grew an age of renewal, leading to the Renaissance. The great Italian city-states developed. Humanism reawakened interest in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Dante and Boccaccio began writing in their Tuscan vernacular. Italian artists became humanists and flourished. As the genius of Italy began spreading to northern and western Europe at the end of the 15th century, the age of renewal was completed. This book provides thorough basic information on the major cultural figures of this tumultuous era of crisis and renewal.
Author : David M Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317895428
This ambitious and wide-ranging study of the European Middle Ages respects the complexity and richness of its subject; always accessible, it is never merely superficial or over-simplistic. Stressing the long-term factors of continuity, evolution and change throughout, David Nicholas discusses the social and economic aspects of medieval civilization, and examines their links with political, institutional and cultural development. Designed for students and non-specialists, his book triumphantly meets the need for a comprehensive survey of the medieval world within the covers of a single authoritative volume.
Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576075753
This authoritative A–Z encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses provides accurate and concise descriptions of the major battles and events and the principal historical figures and issues involved. For centuries, historians agreed about the Wars of the Roses, seeing them as four decades of medieval darkness and chaos, when the royal family and the nobility destroyed themselves fighting for control of the royal government. Even Shakespeare got into the act, dramatizing, popularizing, and darkening this viewpoint in eight plays. Today, based on new research, this has become one of the most hotly controversial periods in English history. Historians disagree on fundamental issues, such as dates and facts, as well as interpretation. Most argue that the effects of the wars were not as widespread as once thought, and some see the traditional view of the era as merely Tudor propaganda. A few even claim that England during the late 15th century was "a society organized for peace." Historian John A. Wagner brings readers up to date on the latest research and thinking about this crucial period of England's history.
Author : Richard Britnell,John Hatcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521522730
A series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.
Author : Judith Ferster
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512805529
Fictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses to—as well as attempts to manage—the risks implicit in advising a king. Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to engage political conflicts, the mirrors for princes have been taken for dull and conventionalized testimonies to the medieval taste for platitude. Judith Ferster maintains that advice was at the center of one of the important political debates in the late Middle Ages: how to constrain the king and allow for his subjects' participation. Fictions of Advice rereads the English mirrors for princes to show how their moralizing was often highly topical and even subversive. Although overtly deferential to the rulers they address, the mirrors' authors were surprisingly capable of criticism and opposition. In putting the texts back into their historical contexts, Ferster reveals the vital cultural and political function they fulfilled in their societies.
Author : Elliot Kendall
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199542642
In a sustained new reading of John Gower's major English poem, Confessio Amantis (1390-3), Elliot Kendall shows how deeply the great household shaped the way Gower and his contemporaries (including Chaucer, Clanvowe, chroniclers, and parliamentary petitioners) imagined their world.
Author : Richard Gorski
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0851159338
A study of the careers of over 1200 sheriffs appointed in England during the fourteenth century.
Author : Pamela Nightingale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000092134
The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the Black Death. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the Statute Merchant and Staple records, the articles chart the chronological and geographical changes in the economy from the late-thirteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. This period started with the triumph of English merchants over alien exporters in the early 1300s, and concluded in the early 1500s with cloth exports overtaking wool in value. The articles assess how these changes came about, as well as the degree to which both political and economic forces altered the pattern of regional wealth and enterprise in ways which saw the northern towns decline, and London rise to be the undisputed financial as well as the political capital of England.
Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780203441268
An authoritative and vivid reconstruction of the true nature of political society in late medieval England. Arranged thematically, it is ideal for student use.
Author : John Watts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521653932
A re-evaluation of politics and political structure in the reign of Henry VI (1422-61), first published in 1996.
Author : Donald Joseph Kagay,L. J. Andrew Villalon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9004125531
This collection of eighteen essays focuses on various phases of warfare around the medieval Mediterranean. Topics of these essays range from crusading activity to the increasing use of mercenaries to the spread of gunpowder weaponry.
Author : A. K. Gundy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521837545
A reinterpretation of Richard II's reign and deposition from the perspective of one of the leading nobles who opposed him.
Author : Richard Bonney
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542206
In this volume an international team of scholars builds up a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal history of Europe over six centuries. It forms a fundamental starting-point for an understanding of the distinctiveness of the emerging European states, and highlights the issue of fiscal power as an essential prerequisite for the development of the modern state. The study underlines the importance of technical developments by the state, its capacity to innovate, and, however imperfect the techniques, the greater detail and sophistication of accounting practice towards the end of the period. New taxes had been developed, new wealth had been tapped, new mechanisms of enforcement had been established. In general, these developments were made in western Europe; the lack of progress in some fiscal systems, especially those in eastern Europe, is an issue of historical importance in its own right and lends particular significance to the chapters on Poland and Russia. By the eighteenth century `mountains of debt' and high debt-revenue ratios had become the norm in western Europe, yet in the east only Russia was able to adapt to the western model by 1815. The capacity of governments to borrow, and the interaction of the constraints on borrowing and the power to tax had become the real test of the fiscal powers of the `modern state' by 1800-15.