Making History offers a fresh perspective on the study of the past. It is an exhaustive exploration of the practice of history, historical traditions and the theories that surround them. Discussing the development and growth of history as a discipline and of the profession of the historian, the book encompasses a huge diversity of influences, organized around the following themes:
the professionalization of the discipline
the most significant movements in historical scholarship in the last century, including the Annales School
the increasing...
Making History offers a fresh perspective on the study of the past. It is an exhaustive exploration of the practice of history, historical...
Bjorn K. U. Weiler Janet Burton Phillipp Schofield
Editors: Janet Burton, Bjorn Weiler, Philipp Schofield, Karen Stober The thirteenth century brought the British Isles into ever closer contact with one another, and with medieval Europe as a whole. This international dimension forms a dominant theme of this collection: it features essays on England's relations with the papal court; the adoption of European cultural norms in Scotland; Welsh society and crusading; English landholding in Ireland; and dealings between the kings of England and Navarre. Other papers, on ritual crucifixion, concepts of office and ethcis, and the English royal...
Editors: Janet Burton, Bjorn Weiler, Philipp Schofield, Karen Stober The thirteenth century brought the British Isles into ever closer contact with on...
Additional editors: Karen Stober, Bjorn Weiler The articles collected here bear witness to the continued and wide interest in England and its neighbours in the -long- thirteenth century. The volume includes papers on the high politics of the thirteenth century, international relations, the administrative and governmental structures of medieval England and aspects of the wider societal and political context of the period. A particular theme of the papers is Anglo-French political history, and especially the ways in which that relationship was reflected in the diplomatic and dynastic...
Additional editors: Karen Stober, Bjorn Weiler The articles collected here bear witness to the continued and wide interest in England and its neighbou...
Peasants and historians is an examination of historical discussion of the medieval English peasantry. In this book, the first such study of its kind, the author traces the development of historical research aimed at exploring the nature of peasant society.
The opening chapters discuss initial work in this area by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians, as well as the major themes associated with relevant research and writing. In separate chapters, the author examines the three main defining explanations that have been applied to the medieval economy in general....
Peasants and historians is an examination of historical discussion of the medieval English peasantry. In this book, the first such study of its kin...
