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A Medieval Society
The West Midlands at the End of the Thirteenth Century
Av R. H. Hilton
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This book portrays the rural and urban economies and the social structure of the West Midlands of England at a peak period of medieval growth, the end of the thirteenth century. The subject matter ranges from lords to peasants, from merchants to artisans, and from bishops to parish priests. It …
The Origins of the English Gentry
Häftad, 2005
502 kr
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The gentry played a central role in medieval England, and this study is a sustained attempt to explore the origins of the gentry and to account for its contours and peculiarities between the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth century. The book deals with the deep roots of the gentry, but argues …
The First Modern Society
Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone
Av A. L. Beier, David Cannadine m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
720 kr
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Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.
Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution
The Colchester Plunderers
Häftad, 2005
502 kr
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This is a critical re-evaluation of one of the best known episodes of crowd action in the English Revolution, in which crowds in their thousands invaded and plundered the houses of the landed classes. The so-called Stour Valley riots have become accepted as the paradigm of class hostility, …
The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris
Av Bronislaw Geremek, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the margins of conventional organized society. Professor Geremek examines the various groups which made up the marginal world - beggars, prostitutes, procuresses and pimps, …
Landlords, Peasants and Politics in Medieval England
Av T. H. Aston
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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The articles in this book, reprinted from the journal Past and Present, are all, in different ways, concerned with the ownership of landed property in medieval England and with those who worked the land. Problems debated include those concerning the keeping intact of the great estates of the …
English Rural Society, 1500-1800
Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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This book honours the varied and creative career of Joan Thirsk, Fellow of the British Academy and former Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford. The chapters have been written largely by Dr Thirsk's former research students, and the diversity of themes covered reflects her own …
Winstanley 'The Law of Freedom' and other Writings
Häftad, 2006
667 kr
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Leader of the Diggers, or True Levellers, whose colony was forced to disband in 1650, Gerrard Winstanley stands out from a century remarkable for its development in political thought as one of the most fecund and original of political writers. An acute and penetrating social critic with a …
Emperor and Priest
The Imperial Office in Byzantium
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's Empereur et prêtre, an acknowledged masterwork by one of the great Byzantine scholars of our time. The figure of the Byzantine emperor, a ruler who sometimes was also designated a priest, has long fascinated the western imagination. This …
Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses
Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Medieval dynasties frequently relied upon the cult of royal saints for legitimacy. After the early medieval emergence of this type of sainthood, in the central Middle Ages most royal dynasties had saints in their family: Edward the Confessor, Olaf, Canute, Louis IX, Charlemagne, the Emperor Henry …
Rethinking the Age of Reform
Britain 1780-1850
Häftad, 2007
737 kr
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This book takes a look at the 'age of reform', from 1780 when reform became a common object of aspiration, to the 1830s - the era of the 'Reform Ministry' and of the Great Reform Act of 1832 - and beyond, when such aspirations were realized more frequently. It pays close attention to what …
A Contested Nation
History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891
Häftad, 2007
918 kr
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This book examines the ways in which the Swiss defined their national identity in the long nineteenth century, in the face of a changing domestic and international background. Its narrative begins in 1761, when the first Swiss patriotic society of national significance was founded, and ends in …
Fashioning Adultery
Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740
Häftad, 2007
804 kr
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This 2002 book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources - including sermons, pamphlets, plays, diaries, periodicals, trial reports and the records of marital …
The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726
A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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The Peasants of Ottobeuren offers an interesting perspective on one of the enduring problems of early modern European history: the possibilities for economic growth and social change in rural society. Based on the voluminous records of the Swabian Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren, this study …
Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society
The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680-1540
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society is a history of the large Church estate of Worcester from its foundation until the Reformation, and is a full-length study of an estate centred in the West Midlands. The medieval bishops of Worcester were landed magnates with manors scattered over three …
Crime in Seventeenth-Century England
A County Study
Av J. A. Sharpe
Häftad, 2008
589 kr
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The history of crime is an exciting field, forming one aspect of a much wider increase in interest in social history as a whole. This book, based on a detailed study of court records in Essex between 1620 and 1680 combines a detailed study of fluctuations in crime and punishment in a …
Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England
Av Paul Slack, Paul Slack
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present. This selection shows how the various forms of popular protest in England from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have been reinterpreted by modern scholars. Topics …
French Society and the Revolution
Av Douglas Johnson, Douglas Johnson
Häftad, 2008
687 kr
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Taken as a whole the essays in this volume illustrate the outstanding contribution made to French Revolutionary scholarship by British and American authors. Professor Johnson has selected essays which cover a wide spectrum of time, place and social class but are vitally concerned to describe and …
Studies on Byzantine Literature of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Av Alexander Kazhdan, Simon Franklin
Häftad, 2009
720 kr
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Byzantine literature is often regarded as little more than an agglomeration of stereotyped forms and generic conventions which allows no scope for individual thought or expression. Accordingly, histories of Byzantine literature tend to focus on the history of genres. The essays in this book …
The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain
Av I. A. A. Thompson, Bartolomi Yun Casalilla
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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This is a collection of revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. Since the 1970s an explosion of historical scholarship in Spain, employing new techniques, approached and sources, has transformed our knowledge of the Castilian past. …
Social Relations and Ideas
Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton
Av T. H. Aston, P. R. Coss m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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This volume of essays in honour of Professor R. H. Hilton is presented by some of his numerous friends and pupils. It attempts to reflect his wide-ranging interests while highlighting certain themes and preserving some distinct degree of unity. The essays illustrate his abiding concern with the …
Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom
The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John
Häftad, 2009
838 kr
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The so called 'Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level, for the steppe peoples it constitutes a distant dynamic which led to the world-shattering rise of Mongol power under Chinggis (Genghis) …
The Wild and the Sown
Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850
Häftad, 2009
902 kr
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This 1997 book describes the spread of new agricultural practice in the half millennium after 1350, and reconstructs a neglected part of Europe's agricultural past: the introduction of fodder crops, and the continuous reorganisation of traditional botanical inputs within a new system of farming. …
From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe
Häftad, 2009
672 kr
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This book is first and foremost an extended examination and discussion of the enslavement of men and women by others of their society and in particular of the means and causes of the gradual end of slavery in early medieval Europe between 500 and 1200. Drawing upon a very wide range of primary and …
Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840
Remaking Justice from the Margins
Av Peter King
Häftad, 2010
838 kr
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How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often …
Gender in Early Modern German History
Häftad, 2010
737 kr
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Why did parents prosecute their children as witches? Why did a sixteenth-century midwife entice a burgher woman to pretend that she was giving birth to puppies? How did the life of a transsexual woman in early eighteenth-century Hamburg come to its end? This volume presents a range of startling …
Puritanism and Theatre
Av Margot Heinemann, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 1982
804 kr
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The closing of the theatres by Parliament in 1642 is perhaps the best-known fact in the history of English drama. As the Parliamentary Puritans were then in power, it is easy to assume that all opponents of the theatre were Puritans, and that all Puritans were hostile to the drama. The reality was …
Crisis of Feudalism
Av G. Bois, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2009
871 kr
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Guy Bois' study of late medieval Normandy is a work of many dimensions. It should be of particular interest to English readers because of the close historical associations of England with Normandy and because of the natural resemblances between these two countries, separated only by the English …
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
Av Jack Goody
Häftad, 1983
394 kr
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Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their head. What had previously been the norm - marriage to close kin - became the new taboo. The same applied to adoption, the obligation of a man to marry his brother's widow and a number of other central practices. With …
Family and Inheritance
Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800
Av Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk m. fl.
Häftad, 1978
687 kr
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This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping …
