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  • Law and Jurisdiction in the Middle Ages

    de Walter Ullmann, George Garnett ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Walter Ullmann's contribution to the study of medieval political and legal thought needs no emphasis. In the present volume are collected a number of the early articles which it was not possible to include in his previous collections, together with others published since those volumes appeared. The articles display a striking consistency of approach, though in the more than forty years separating ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Norman Conquest

    A Very Short Introduction

    de George Garnett ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, cataclysmically transforming a disparate collection of small nations into a European state. But what actually happened? How was the invasion viewed by those who witnessed it? And how has its legacy been seen by generations since? This fascinating Very ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Norman Conquest in English History

    Volume I: A Broken Chain?

    de George Garnett ...
    The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted both an unprecedented campaign in the early twelfth century to write (or create) the history of England, and to excavate (and ... Leer más

    $100.99 USD

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    The Norman Conquest in English History

    Volume I: A Broken Chain?

    de George Garnett ...
    Narrado por Nigel Patterson ...

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    15 hora 25 minutos

    The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted both an unprecedented campaign in the early twelfth century to write (or create) the history of England, and to excavate (and ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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  • Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul

    Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition

    de Ralph Whitney Mathisen ...
    A study of the collapse of Roman rule in ancient Gaul and the shift to Germanic power.Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western ... Leer más

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  • King Rufus

    The Life and Murder of William II of England

    de Emma Mason ...
    The future William II was born in the late 1050s, the third son of William the Conqueror. The younger William nicknamed Rufus because of his ruddy cheeks at first had not great expectations of succeeding to the throne. The situation changed when Robert, the Conqueror's eldest son, repeatedly rebelled against his father, and Richard, the king's second son, died tragically at the age of just 14. ... Leer más

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  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    de Ernst Kantorowicz, William Chester Jordan ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell

    Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

    de John Schofield ...
    Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins and outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIII's chief minister and right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour, but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, which Cromwell had arranged, led to his swift downfall and execution. In this biography, John Schofield reveals ... Leer más

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  • Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250

    Medicine, Power and Religion

    de Claire Weeda ...
    Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ... Leer más

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  • Mary, Queen of Scots

    de Jenny Wormald, Anna Groundwater ...
    Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history’s romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her plotting, including probable involvement in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, led to her flight from Scotland and ... Leer más

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  • The Limits of History

    de Constantin Fasolt ...
    History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time.So argues Constantin Fasolt in The Limits of History, an ambitious and pathbreaking ... Leer más

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