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43 produkter
Hagiography and the Cult of Saints
The Diocese of Orléans, 800-1200
Av Thomas Head, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
502 kr
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This is a study of the place of patron saints in Frankish society during the Carolingian and early Capetian periods. The book focuses on the composition of works in praise of dead holy people - hagiography - and the veneration of their physical remains - the cult of saints. It examines the patrons …
Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century
A Social Portrait
Av William J. Courtenay, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
738 kr
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This study of the social, geographical and disciplinary composition of the scholarly community at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century is based on the reconstruction of a remarkable document: the financial record of tax levied on university members in the academic year 1329-1330. …
Kings, Barons and Justices
The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England
Av Paul Brand, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
705 kr
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This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation - the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267 - and is the first on any of the statutes of this period of major legislative change. The Provisions of Westminster were …
The Household Knights of King John
Av S. D. Church, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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If the medieval king was the helmsman of the ship of state, the royal household was the ship's engine. It comprised men from most ranks of society, from the great magnates of the realm to simple servants who looked after the day-to-day needs of the king and his court. English government, in both …
Restoration and Reform, 1153-1165
Recovery from Civil War in England
Av Graeme J. White, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
921 kr
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This book examines the processes by which effective royal government was restored in England following the civil war of Stephen's reign. It questions the traditional view that Stephen presided over 'anarchy', arguing instead that the king and his rivals sought to maintain the administrative …
Colonisation and Conquest in Medieval Ireland
The English in Louth, 1170-1330
Av Brendan Smith, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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This book examines the development of English colonial society in the eastern coastal area of Ireland now known as county Louth, in the period 1170-1330. At its heart is the story of two relationships: that between settler and native in Louth, and that between the settlers and England. An important …
State and Society in the Early Middle Ages
The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000
Av Matthew Innes, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering study of politics and society in the early Middle Ages. Whereas it is widely believed that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study of the workings of social and political relationships on the ground, …
The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069-1215
Av Janet Burton, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
813 kr
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This 1999 book explores the dramatic growth of the monastic order in Yorkshire from the foundation of the first post-Conquest abbey at Selby in 1069 to 1215. The first half examines the dynamics of monastic expansion, discussing the influences on both its chronological development and its …
Locality and Polity
A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499
Häftad, 2009
854 kr
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This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners - the gentry - in one county in fifteenth-century England. In common with other local studies of the later Middle Ages, it builds upon the seminal work of K. B. McFarlane, looking at the political and social world in the localities from which the …
The Wars of the Roses
Politics and the Constitution in England, c.1437-1509
Inbunden, 1997
1204 kr
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This is a new interpretation of English politics during the extended period beginning with the majority of Henry VI in c. 1437 up to the accession of Henry VII in 1509. The later fifteenth century in England is a somewhat baffling and apparently incoherent period which historians and history …
The Wars of the Roses
Politics and the Constitution in England, c.1437-1509
Häftad, 1997
653 kr
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This is a new interpretation of English politics during the extended period beginning with the majority of Henry VI in c. 1437 up to the accession of Henry VII in 1509. The later fifteenth century in England is a somewhat baffling and apparently incoherent period which historians and history …
Locality and Polity
A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499
Inbunden, 1992
2365 kr
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This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners - the gentry - in one county in fifteenth-century England. In common with other local studies of the later Middle Ages, it builds upon the seminal work of K. B. McFarlane, looking at the political and social world in the localities from which the …
Kings, Barons and Justices
The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England
Av Paul Brand, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
2549 kr
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This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation - the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267 - and is the first on any of the statutes of this period of major legislative change. The Provisions of Westminster were …
The Government of England under Henry I
Av Judith A. Green, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
754 kr
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The is a full-length analysis of the machinery and men of government under Henry I, which looks in much greater detail than is possible for other contemporary states at the way government worked and at the careers of royal servants. Royal government in England in the early twelfth-century was …
Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291
Av Christopher Marshall, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
594 kr
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This book offers a detailed examination of warfare in the Latin East from the end of the Third Crusade, to the demise of the Latin Kingdom in 1291. It considers both the crusades and the long periods of truce during which warfare was restricted to raiding expeditions and conflict among the …
Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c.936-1075
Av John W. Bernhardt, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
921 kr
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In examining the relationship between the royal monasteries in tenth- and eleventh-century Germany and the German monarchs, this book assimilates a great deal of European scholarship on a central problem - that of the realities and structures of power. It focuses on the practical aspects of …
Land and Power in Late Medieval Ferrara
The Rule of the Este, 1350-1450
Av Trevor Dean, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
566 kr
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Among the many states of late medieval Italy, one stands out for its unfamiliarity to an English audience and for its neglect in historical research: that of the Este family, lords (later Dukes) of the cities of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio in northern Italy. This book is the first modern attempt to …
Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne
Anglo-German Emigrants, c.1000-c.1300
Av Joseph P. Huffman, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
636 kr
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This book explores the full range of social, economic, religious and cultural contacts between England and the German city of Cologne during the central Middle Ages, c.1000 to c.1300. A wealth of original archive material reveals an extensive network of English and German emigrants who were …
Clement V
Av Sophia Menache, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
770 kr
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Clement V, the first 'Avignon' pope, led the Church during nine critical years, 1305-14. Elected two years after the outrage committed upon Boniface VIII at Anagni, Clement saw as his main goal the restoration of harmonious relations with the leading monarchs of Christendom. In achieving his aim, …
Peter des Roches
An Alien in English Politics, 1205-1238
Av Nicholas Vincent, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
720 kr
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This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the Plantagenet court second only to that of the king. The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens …
Medieval Merchants
York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages
Av Jenny Kermode, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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This book is based on some 1400 individuals who lived in three northern English towns during the later middle ages. It analyses the many aspects of merchant society visible to the historian: achievements in politics, attitudes towards religion, the family, wider circles of friends and business …
Conquest, Anarchy and Lordship
Yorkshire, 1066-1154
Av Paul Dalton, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
502 kr
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Focusing on Yorkshire, by far the largest English county, this book, first published in 1994, examines three of the most important themes in the period described by Sir Frank Stenton as 'the first century of English feudalism': the Norman conquest, the anarchy of Stephen's reign, and the nature of …
Barcelona and its Rulers, 1096-1291
Av Stephen P. Bensch, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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This volume examines the early growth of Barcelona and the formation of its ruling classes. The city did not at first grow because of overseas trade but because of market-oriented agriculture and tribute from Islamic Spain. Only after a difficult adjustment did the city develop the commercial …
People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554
Av Patrick Amory, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
720 kr
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The barbarians of the fifth and sixth centuries were long thought to be races, tribes or ethnic groups who toppled the Roman Empire and racist, nationalist assumptions about the composition of the barbarian groups still permeate much scholarship on the subject. This book proposes a new view, …
Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, c.200-c.1150
Av Peter Cramer, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
804 kr
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The liturgy of the medieval church has been little studied in its relation to medieval thought and society. It has often been taken for granted that the Latin liturgy was understood by the priest, but to his congregation was only a spectacle of authority. This book begins with the hypothesis that …
Kings and Lords in Conquest England
Av Robin Fleming, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
594 kr
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This is a study of landholding and alliance in England in the years 950 to 1086, a period in which the fortunes of lay lords and their families rose and fell dramatically. It was also a period of dizzying tenurial change, in which the fluctuations in landed wealth and alliances shed light on the …
Caesarius of Arles
The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul
Av William E. Klingshirn, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
754 kr
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This book studies the processes by which the pagan Roman empire was transformed into the Christian middle ages. Drawing on the perspectives of social history, archaeology and anthropology, it focuses on the strategies of Bishop Caesarius of Arles (AD 470-542) to promote Christian values, practices …
Peter des Roches
An Alien in English Politics, 1205-1238
Av Nicholas Vincent, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2314 kr
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This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the Plantagenet court second only to that of the king. The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens …
Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483
Inbunden, 1996
1341 kr
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The Stonor letters and papers form one of only three surviving archives of gentry correspondence from late medieval England. The collection - which includes documents ranging from love letters to household accounts - provides us with a wealth of otherwise unobtainable detail about the lives and …
Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483
Häftad, 1996
787 kr
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The Stonor letters and papers form one of only three surviving archives of gentry correspondence from late medieval England. The collection - which includes documents ranging from love letters to household accounts - provides us with a wealth of otherwise unobtainable detail about the lives and …
