Routledge Library Editions: Medieval Culture, Society, & Religion – serie
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Hundred & The Hundred Rolls
An Outline of Local Government in Medieval England
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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Originally published in 1930, this book outlines the system of local government at work in the reign of Edward I and provides a guide to the study of the 3 volumes of the Rotuli Hundredorum and Placita Quo Warranto which were printed early in the nineteenth century. The Hundreds were the districts of England into which every county was subdivided. They varied in size and shape but formed an indispensable part of the system of local government. For taxation, justice, police, law and military defence, the Hundred came into play. The Hundred Rolls were a complete statement as to the administration of the counties of England and the Hundred Rolls of 1274-75 are the starting point of this book. In interpreting them one can understand not only the England of Edward I, but the whole system of local government of the early Middle Ages in England.
Documents Illustrating the History of Civilization in Medieval England
1066–1500
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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The author and acclaimed historian of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history, maintaining that applying historical criticism to documents, and balancing one document against another was a process of ‘the highest educational value’. He compiled this volume with the aim of giving easy access to the more important documents of political history for the period between the Norman Conquest and the Accession of the House of Tudor. All the documents are translated into English from French or Latin and important documents, such as the Magna Carta are given in their entirety. The plan and arrangement of the documents is based on the belief that the political history of the Middle Ages is best understood in the light of social, economic and cultural evolution.
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Originally published in English in 1985, this book concentrates on the people of the Middle Ages and how they saw the world they lived in. Medieval behaviour – social, economic, political and religious, was regulated by the Medieval picture of the world. This book discusses the most important concepts of medieval culture – space and time, law, the attitude towards work, wealth and poverty – as they are reflected in the vernacular literature of the age: sagas, epics, courtly romances, the love songs of the troubadours, and the works of Dante, as well as numerous Latin writings. This enables the reader to reconstruct the culture of the Middle Ages, revealing it as a culture which resulted from the meeting of several traditions – Christian, classical and barbarian.
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Originally published in 1978, this global comparative survey investigates the political, social and economic features of feudalism. While Europe remains its point of departures, it considers many other societies and their history, such as China and Japan, Ethiopia and Latin America, explaining what about them is described as feudal and why. The book spans a period ranging from Confucius and Herodotus to Mao Tse-tung. It also surveys and compares different instances of such phenomena as vassalage and military lordship, feudal kingship, clientage and patronage, serfdom, debt bondage and the feudalism which has so often been the target of modern reformers and revolutionaries.
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Originally published in English in 1964, this book threw new light on the positive value and significance of the Middle Ages. It discusses Constantine and the triumph of Christianity; the clash between the German tribes and Roman civilization at the time of Stilicho and Alaric; the confrontation between Germanic Arianism and Roman Catholicism; St. Benedict and the foundation of Western monasticism; Charlemagne and the foundation of Europe; Otto II and the feudal empire; the expansion of the Christian world and the first Crusade; the final bids for power and the final crisis of the medieval world.
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Originally published in English in 1976, this book shed new light upon a dark aspect of a dark age in the social history of Europe. The book discusses and makes clear the differences between the feudal and ‘seigneurial’ organisation of society that developed with the disintegration of the State which followed the enormous enlargement of the Empire under Charlemagne. The author bases his analysis mainly upon the French experience but draws his evidence from England, Germany, Italy and Spain. Lucid and enlightening, this book will be of interest to students of medieval history.
456 kr
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Originally published in English in 1976, this book shed new light upon a dark aspect of a dark age in the social history of Europe. The book discusses and makes clear the differences between the feudal and ‘seigneurial’ organisation of society that developed with the disintegration of the State which followed the enormous enlargement of the Empire under Charlemagne. The author bases his analysis mainly upon the French experience but draws his evidence from England, Germany, Italy and Spain. Lucid and enlightening, this book will be of interest to students of medieval history.
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Originally published in 1974, this book examines in detail some of the finest plays from the great cycles of York, Wakefield and Chester. By considering the plays as plays rather than literary relics of a past age, he throws new light both on their aims and intentions as drama and on the intriguing problems of stage techniques. The major morality plays of the period are discussed not only for the interest of their content but for their effectiveness as theatre. Throughout the book the author stresses the richness and strength of a drama which, despite its small corpus of plays, survived as popular drama for several hundred years.
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Mystical understanding transfigured Christianity in the Middle Ages and led to some of its most sublime prose and poetry. Originally published in 1982, this was the first book of its kind to bring together some of the medieval mystics and to relate the depths of their understanding to modern life and to world views. The author, a writer and broadcaster on modern mystics and on the mystical aspects of eastern religions, particularly Zen, has interpreted each of these very different medieval mystics afresh.
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Originally published in 1958 and as a third edition in 1971, this comprehensive account of political thought in the Middle Ages presents medieval thinking against the historical background which animated it. The main emphasis is on the currents of thought and action in which individuals and institutions played their part and the central theme is the growth of the conception of a religious-political commonwealth and its gradual replacement by the idea of the State.
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Originally published in 1938, this book was the first to cover the history of geographical thought. It discusses the development of medieval earth-knowledge as it was affected, on the one hand, by the prevailing Christian and Muslim ideologies and, on the other, by the results of human enterprise on land and sea.
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Originally published in 1938, the author traces the rise of the great European Universities from the Cathedral Schools of the tenth and eleventh centuries and their gradual development into republics of learning with power to treat on terms of equality with king and pope. The conflict between Realism and Nominalism and the emergence of Scholasticism is also discussed and separate chapters are devoted to the greater universities of Europe.
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The subjects of medieval romance are the great and permanent concerns of the human mind. A literature is best approached by newcomers, through its major achievements, the author of this book, originally published in 1973, maintains. The book’s discussion centres on the romances of Chaucer and Chrétien de Troyes, and on such texts as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Roman de la Rose, and Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. The book’s introductory chapters stress the continuity between medieval and later literature.
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Originally published in 1973, this book examines the urban community of Southampton through its early and formative years. Southampton is one of the most interesting and important medieval towns, because of its position as a ‘gateway’ between England and the Continent. The author uses both historical and archaeological evidence to establish the characteristics of an emergent burgess class: its trading interests, social pre-occupations and tastes. Problems of government, of economic development, defence and faith are discussed as they came to prominence in the community. The close interconnections within the burgess class are emphasized, and the importance of the neighbourhood and of ‘neighbourliness’ is stressed. The study of Southampton’s urban growth reveals much about economic changes and developments during the medieval period and shows a high level of contact between England and the other countries of Europe. The book is fully illustrated and includes chronological tables and extensive appendices.
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From the evidence of Chinese documents, East African excavations and the researches of scholars and historians, the author of this book, originally published in English in 1972, gives a fascinating account of China’s early relations with Africa, the development of China’s navy and overseas enterprises, the visits of the great Ming expeditionary fleets in the early fifteenth century, and finally, why the vast Chinese shipyards ceased all activity by the end of the 15th century..
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This book, originally published in 1980, examines the history of the papacy in the century between the end of the Great Schism and the start of the Reformation, and considers how, and at what price, the popes were able to re-establish their power after the troubles of the years from 1378 to 1417. The author approaches the subject analytically rather than chronologically, covering such themes as theories of authority in the late Middle Ages, the problems of papal government and the potential areas of conflict between the popes and the secular princes. By concentrating on the period before 1517, the author stresses the importance of seeing the fifteenth century Church as the product of the conciliar crisis rather than as the cause of the Reformation although he suggests that the concession made by the papacy in this period created the political situation which made possible the divisions of Christendom in the sixteenth century. This work will be of interest to historians of the late medieval and early modern period, particularly those specialising in conciliar thought and Church history.
1 182 kr
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Originally published in 1986, this volume illuminates the predominant theatrical styles of a particular period in dramatic history. It does this by reconstructing – as far as conjecture permits – the manner in which five major plays of the late Middle Ages might have been staged in fifteenth-century Britain. The author draws on his experience in producing medieval plays to discuss the business of staging in a novel way. General conclusions are drawn from specific examples and the qualities which give medieval English drama its idiosyncratic features and appeal are characterized.
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Originally published in 1889 and as a fourth edition in 1950, this book is a study of travel in fourteenth century England. It brings to life those contemporaries of Chaucer who passed up and down the highways for business or pleasure, whether they were minstrels, messengers, merchants, wandering preachers, friars or pilgrims. The book builds a picture not just of travel in Medieval England, but how those on such nomadic journeys felt and thought.
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Originally published in 1972, Medieval Song assembles the whole tradition of early European poetry, from the writings of the late Roman Empire to the time of the Hundred Years War. It covers a vast range of languages and cultures, beginning with the Latin of pagan song and Christian hymn and ending with the Middle English ballads of the time of Chaucer. The selection stresses the interdependence of the sacred and the profane. The sequence of the translations shows how the dawn songs or albas of France, Germany and Italy are clearly related to the sacred songs in Latin. Professor Wilhelm’s translations reflect a variety of voices, from the earthy lyrics of Duke William IX of Aquitaine – the first known ‘modern’ poet – to the graceful, sophisticated poems of Charles d’Orléans. The book shows that the literature of the Middle Ages had its origins in the tradition of Latin composition, and developed in radically different ways in the various European communities. The book collects 230 poems.
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Originally published between 1926 and 1986, the volumes in this set bring to life the rich tapestry of the Medieval World across the globe, from cultural, religious and socio-political standpoints. They emphasize just how many of the legal and political institutions we take for granted today have their origins in medieval times.The volumes in the set:· Give easy access (in translation from the French and Latin) to the more important documents of political history for the period between the Norman Conquest and the Accession of the House of Tudor.· Present medieval thinking against the historical background which animated it.· Examine some of the finest plays from the great cycles of York, Wakefield and Chester throwing new light both on their aims and intentions as drama and on the intriguing problems of stage techniques.· Discuss the major morality plays of the period not only for the interest of their content but for their effectiveness as theatre.· Investigate the political, social and economic features of feudalism.· Discuss the development of medieval earth-knowledge as it was affected by the prevailing Christian and Muslim ideologies and by the results of human enterprise on land and at sea.