Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 410 p. — (Cambridge Companions to Culture). This Cambridge Companion offers readers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century: the age of William the Conqueror. Besides England, Normandy, and northern France, the volume also explores Scandinavia, the North Sea world, the insular world...
Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi. 1929. Bd. 44. P. 500 – 511. In the» Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum» (ed. Schmeidler p. 84) the following somewhat mystifying statement is made:» Anglia, ut supra diximus et in Gestis Anglorum scribitur, post mortem Gudredi a filiis eius Analaph, Sigerih et Reginold per annos fere C permansit in ditione Danorum. Tunc vero Haroldus Hiring...
New Edition — DK Publishing, 2024. — 408 p. — (DK Definitive Visual Histories). — ISBN: 0593842316, 978-0593842317. Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible...
Brill, 2024. — 310 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 244). This volume contains transcriptions of rolls 1 to 20 (1466-1500) of the 105 (1466-1636) extant rolls of churchwardens' accounts from the parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London. These financial records, along with assorted memoranda, are filled with information about the church, its...
Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 304 p. In 1215 King John had agreed to the terms of the Magna Carta, but he then reneged on his word, plunging the kingdom into war. The rebellious barons offered the throne to the French prince Louis and set off the chain of events that almost changed the course of English history. Louis first arrived in May 1216, was proclaimed king in the heart of...
Oxford University Press, 1996. - 222 p. - ISBN: 0-19-506242-6. A "common woman" in medieval England had many sex partners, often for money. Any woman not under the dominion of one man — husband, father, master — ran the risk that her independent behavior would lead to her being labeled a whore. Medieval society attempted to control such women by treating them as though they...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - 272 p. - ISBN-13: 978-0-230-60779-8. This book is about the early history of the jury system in medieval England. It deals with the period from the middle of the twelfth century to the end of the fourteenth century, an era of momentous change that saw the birth of the Common Law, the origin of Parliament, and England’s first experience as a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 264 p. Women born in mid-twentieth-century Britain were the 'welfare state generation' – not only were their lives fundamentally shaped by the welfare state, but they also helped to transform it. In this ground-breaking work, Eve Worth examines the impact of the welfare state on the life course of women whose opportunities and social experiences...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 246 p. This is the first in-depth and comparative study of the experience of colonial encounters for troops from the British Empire during the First World War. Drawing on a rich variety of textual and visual material, Anna Maguire explores new contact zones that materialized beyond the battlefield, on troopships, in ports, in military camps...
Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-19-876996-5. The first and only book on the subject of historical writing in Angevin England, a period that has been called the 'golden age' of medieval historical writing in England. Provides an introduction to the subject for the uninitiated, and the definitive reference work for those familiar with the area. Uses examples of work...
Routledge, 2006. — 634 p. Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603. It looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition from medieval to renaissance warfare, the development of...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 336 p. The co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II put England at the heart of early modern Europe. This volume provides a positive reassessment of their reign, countering parochial, misogynist and anti-Catholic assumptions while seeking to correct the myths that surround Mary and Philip's marriage and examining the reasons for the couple's...
Little, Brown and Company, 2005. — 288 p. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the...
The History Press, 2011. — 368 p. Recreating the turbulent life of one of the most exciting women in European medieval history, this biography reveals a peculiarly "modern" queen Eleanor of Aquitaine was the only person ever to sit on the thrones of both France and England. This account of the adventures of the extraordinary mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John takes...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 238 p. In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, poets write as if addressing the king himself, drawing on their sense of the rights granted by Magna Carta. These apparent appeals to the sovereign increase with the...
University of Exeter Press, 2015. — 691 p. The city of Exeter was one of the great provincial capitals of late medieval and early modern England and possessed a range of civic amenities fully commensurate with its size and importance. Among the most impressive of these was its highly sophisticated water supply system. Beautifully illustrated, Water in the City reveals the story...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 500 p. In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at the book's heart is the tragic, magnetic figure of Henry VII - controlling,...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 429 p. This is a historical study of the career of King James VI and I, as king of Scotland (1567-1625) and England (1603-1625), who achieved a union of the crowns as the first king of Great Britain, and who undertook to end the recurring religious wars. His peacemaking by diplomatic means was complemented by his efforts to foster closer...
Grove Press, 2001. — 576 p. In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, and led his soldiers into the last battle against...
Hachette, 2010. — 448 p. With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot. 'Told with impressive...
Knopf, 1984. — 544 p. Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widowed? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life...
Random House Value Publishing, 1988. — 612 p. Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox and the unruly Scottish...
Vintage, 1993. — 496 p. Under Antonia Fraser's intent scrutiny, Catherine of Aragon emerges as a scholar-queen who steadfastly refused to grant a divorce to her royal husband; Anne Boleyn is absolved of everything but a sharp tongue and an inability to produce a male heir; and Catherine Parr is revealed as a religious reformer with the good sense to tack with the treacherous...
Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1979. — 540 p. Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660. Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography...
Phoenix Press, 2001. — 571 p. A fine book so obviously the fruit of devoted labour, there is everything to enjoy in it. A sympathetic modern biography of the man who was right at the heart of all the struggles in the 17th century--and a thoroughly researched history that reads like the thriller it is. Written in a bold and evocative style, this engrossing volume weaves an...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 217 p. The first expansive study of how when the Popish Plot of 1678 came to light, fears of an Irish Catholic rebellion amongst Ireland's uneasy Protestant elite, who dominated over the Catholic majority population, were manipulated in England in an attempt to block the Catholic Duke of York from succeeding to the throne.
Routledge, 1993. — 249 p. The first major study of party conflict in England over the later Stuart period from the reign of Charles II to its culmination under Queen Anne. Tim Harris shows how the party configuration of subsequent British politics emerged in these crucial years. He deals not only with high politics and with the organisation of the new parties, but also with the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 607 p. A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise in rebellion against Stuart rule. Both James VI and I and his son Charles I were...
Picador, 2015. — 704 p. Janice Hadlow's A Royal Experiment is a masterpiece. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, this heartbreaking narrative of family dysfunction and royal sacrifice is an absolute page-turner. From the first pages of Janice Hadlow's enthralling A Royal Experiment you know you are in the hands of a master narrator as well as a profoundly perceptive...
Ashgate Publishing, 2007. — 316 p. Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649-1709) was the closest confidant of William III and arguably the most important politician in Williamite Britain. Beginning his career in 1664 as page to William of Orange, his fortunes gained momentum with the Prince's rise to power in the Netherlands and Britain, emerging as William's favourite...
Manchester University Press, 2003. — 272 p. In this fascinating book the author discusses the political story of the first decade of the reign of George III, one of the most controversial figures in modern British history. George III has often been blamed for the loss of Britain’s American colonies in an attempt to restore royal power. Peter D.G. Thomas confirms Namier’s...
The History Press, 2013. — 295 p. The early Scottish kingdom underwent a fundamental transformation between the tenth twelfth centuries. It started out as the Kingdom of Alba with a largely Gaelic language and culture and strong links to Ireland. It ended up as the Kingdom of Scotland with a more mixed culture, increasingly influenced by its southern English neighbour. This...
McFarland, 2010. — 221 p. An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated in eastern Europe around 850 B.C., bringing to early Britain a cult of an underworld deity, a belief in reincarnation, and a keen interest in...