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Author : George William Coopland
Publisher : Liverpool [Eng.] : Liverpool University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036403660
Author : C. T. Allmand
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 0064901599
Author : Glending Olson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501746758
This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.
Author : Christopher Allmand
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781386903
The essays in this volume portray the public life of late medieval France as that country established its position as a leader of western European society in the early modern world. A central theme is the contribution made by contemporary writers, chroniclers and commentators, such as Jean Froissart, William Worcester and Philippe de Commynes, to our understanding of the past. Who were they? What picture of their times did they present? Were their works intended to influence their contemporaries and what success did they enjoy? Other contributions deal with the exercise of political power, the relationship between the court and those in authority in far-flung reaches of the kingdom, and the role and status of the death penalty as deterrent, punishment and means of achieving justice.
Author : Jenny Adams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812201048
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste, and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or sexual consummation. In Power Play, Jenny Adams looks to medieval literary representations to ask what they can tell us both about the ways the game changed as it was naturalized in the West and about the society these changes reflected. In its Western form, chess featured a queen rather than a counselor, a judge or bishop rather than an elephant, a knight rather than a horse; in some manifestations, even the pawns were differentiated into artisans, farmers, and tradespeople with discrete identities. Power Play is the first book to ask why chess became so popular so quickly, why its pieces were altered, and what the consequences of these changes were. More than pleasure was at stake, Adams contends. As allegorists and political theorists connected the moves of the pieces to their real-life counterparts, chess took on important symbolic power. For these writers and others, the game provided a means to figure both human interactions and institutions, to envision a civic order not necessarily dominated by a king, and to imagine a society whose members acted in concert, bound together by contractual and economic ties. The pieces on the chessboard were more than subjects; they were individuals, playing by the rules.
Author : Philippe Contamine
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0631144692
A history of medieval warfare in Europe covers the fifth through the fifteenth century and discusses armor, artillery, strategy, and courage
Author : Frederick H. Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1975-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521206901
The first systematic attempt to reconstruct from original manuscript sources and early printed books the medieval doctrines relating to the just war, the holy war and the crusade. Despite the frequency of wars and armed conflicts throughout the course of western history, no comprehensive survey has previously been made of the justifications of warfare that were elaborated by Roman lawyers, canon lawyers and theologians in the twelfth and thirteenth century universities. After a brief survey of theories of the just war in antiquity, with emphasis on Cicero and Augustine, and of thought on early medieval warfare, the central chapters are devoted to scholastics such as Pope Innocent IV, Hostiensis and Thomas Aquinas. Professor Russell attempts to correlate theories of the just war with political and intellectual development in the Middle Ages. His conclusion evaluates the just war in the light of late medieval and early modern statecraft and poses questions about its compatibility with Christian ethics and its validity within international law.
Author : Craig Taylor,Jane H. M. Taylor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275403
First full English translation of a major text, narrating the adventures of the Jouvencel whilst interweaving them with advice on military tactics and strategies.
Author : John Gillingham,James Clarke Holt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4362229
A valuable group of papers by pupils and associates of John Prestwich, which reflects his own rigorous questioning of the sources to elicit a clear picture of the realities of the wars that so concerned the medieval state.' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
Author : Catherine Nall
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843245
Reading, writing and the prosecution of warfare went hand in hand in the fifteenth century, demonstrated by the wide circulation and ownership of military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of military concerns into a huge corpus of texts; but their relationship has hitherto not received the attention it deserves, a gap which this book remedies, arguing that the connections are vital to the literary culture of the time, and should be recognised on a much wider scale. Beginning with a detailed consideration of the circulation of one of the most important military manuals in the Middle Ages, Vegetius' De re militari, it highlights the importance of considering the activities of a range of fifteenth-century readers and writers in relation to the wider contemporary military culture. It shows how England's wars in France and at home, and the wider rhetoric and military thinking those wars generated, not only shaped readers' responses to their texts but also gave rise to the production of one of the most elaborate, rich and under-recognised pieces of verse of the Wars of the Roses in the form of 'Knyghthode and bataile'. It also indicates how the structure, language and meaning of canonical texts, including those by Lydgate and Malory, were determined by the military culture of the period.
Author : Thomas Brady,Oberman,James D. Tracy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004391659
The Handbook of European History 1400-1600 brings together the best scholarship into an array of topical chapters that present current knowledge and thinking in ways useful to the specialist and accessible to students and to the educated non-specialist. Forty-one leading scholars in this field of history present the state of knowledge about the grand themes, main controversies and fruitful directions for research of European history in this era. Volume 1 (Structures and Assertions) described the people, lands, religions and political structures which define the setting for this historical period. Volume 2 (Visions, Programs, Outcomes) covers the early stages of the process by which newly established confessional structures began to work their way among the populace.
Author : Linda Clark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833338
A range of important issues in current research are debated in the latest volume in the series, with a special focus on warfare.
Author : Margaret Shewring,J R Mulryne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781349197347
Author : Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012994896
This is a study of two topics of central importance in late medieval history: the impact of war, and the control of disorder. Making war and making law were the twin goals of the state, and the author examines the effect of the evolution of royal government in England and France. Ranging broadly between 1000 and 1400, he focuses principally on the period c.1290 to c.1360, and compares developments in the two countries in four related areas: the economic and political costs of war; the development of royal justice; the crown's attempt to control private violence; and the relationship between public opinion and government action. He argues that as France suffered near breakdown under repeated English invasions, the authority of the crown became more acceptable to the internal warring factions; whereas the English monarchy, unable to meet the expectations for internal order which arose partly from its own ambitious claims to be 'keeper of the peace', had to devolve much of its judicial powers. In these linked problems of war, justice, and public order may lie the origins of English 'constitutionalism' and French 'absolutism'.
Author : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472112200
For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and castles and winning battles - including such glorious victories as Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, but then the English run of success began to fail, and in four short years she lost Normandy and finally her last stronghold in Guyenne. The protagonists of the Hundred Year War are among the most colourful in European history: for the English, Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V, later immortalized by Shakespeare; for the French, the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London, Charles V, who very nearly overcame England and the enigmatic Charles VII, who did at last drive the English out.
