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One gusty morning in March 1016, Earl Uhtred of Northumbria came with 40 followers to a wooden hall at a place called Wiheal outside York, to parley ... More

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Drawn from two medieval collections of form letters for all manner of business and personal affairs, "Lost Letters of Medieval Life" depicts early ... More

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Using a combination of original sources and sharp analysis, this book is sheds new light on a crucial period in England s development. From Norman ... More

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"England and its Rulers" has established itself as an attractive and authoritative account of English history from 1066. For this third edition, ... More

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Volume 2 of the Political History of England by the distinguished Yale historian

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The lower ecclesiastical courts were among the most important law courts encountered by ordinary English people in the Middle Ages, dispensing the ... More

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Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly obligations, as ... More

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From the departure of the Roman legions, to the battle of Bosworth and the rise of the Tudors, the world of medieval England was one of profound ... More

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This volume publishes the written acts of Hugh of Le Puiset, the ambitious and acquisitive bishop of Durham from 1153 to 1195--including an unusually ... More

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Fourteenth-century London was noisy, dirty, and disorderly, but also prosperous, proud of itself, and full of life not yet dispersed to distant ... More

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The future of the United Kingdom is an increasingly open question. This book traces the issue's roots to the Middle Ages, when English power and ... More

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Who was the real King Arthur? What do the historical documents tell us about the Knight of the Round Temple? It is just a chivalric fantasy? The ... More

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Studies on the cultural, social, political and economic history of the age.

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A comprehensive introduction to English society in the later Middle Ages.

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there...Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and ... More

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Looking at the past as a foreign country, this guidebook allows readers to experience the Middle Ages like never before.

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Conspicuous consumption in the 15th century both offers causes for revolt and allows reconstruction of regional supply and trading networks.

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This vivid and comprehensive account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest lays bare ... More

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The Tudor period was a time of extremes when Henry VIII beheaded wives and Queen Mary executed non-Catholics. With the ascension of Protestant ... More

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William was a historian, biblical commentator, biographer and classicist; his intellectual achievement is studied here.

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