This is a fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities. It is also a broad scholarly exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages by one of its most distinguished historians. Barbara Harvey exploits the exceptionally rich archives of the Benedictine foundation of Westminster to the full, offering numerous vivid insights into the lives of the Westminster monks, their pensioners, and their patrons. She examines their charitable practices, their food and drink, illness and death, the abbey...
This is a fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities. It is also a broad sc...
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 control came to extend to the whole of the British Isles. By 1300 it looked as if Edward I was in control of virtually the whole of the British Isles. Ireland, Scotland, and Wales had, in different degrees, been subjugated to his authority; contemporaries were even comparing him to King Arthur. This was the culmination of a remarkable English advance into the outer zones of the British Isles in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The advance was...
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 contr...
What were the causes of the English Civil War? The traditional explanations involving the struggle for sovereignty and the bourgeois revolution have been questioned in recent years. In this study, Conrad Russell offers a compelling new analysis, bringing into focus fundamental religious and constitutional issues of vital importance to contemporaries but neglected by historians. Drawing heavily on research in printed and unpublished sources, Russell highlights the constitutional problem of multiple kingdoms within Britain; the religious problem of competing theologies within and outside a...
What were the causes of the English Civil War? The traditional explanations involving the struggle for sovereignty and the bourgeois revolution have b...
In this book F. M. L. Thompson makes an incisive contribution to the longstanding debate over gentrification and entrepreneurialism in Britain. He provides an expert analysis of the links between economic performance and the penetration of industrial wealth into landed society.
In this book F. M. L. Thompson makes an incisive contribution to the longstanding debate over gentrification and entrepreneurialism in Britain. He pro...
