Gothic Kings Of Britain
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Author | : Philip J. Potter |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2009-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 078645248X |
This biographical history tells the story of 31 Gothic monarchs who fought in the crusades, enforced their feudal rights throughout the kingdom, sponsored the growth of representative government through a parliament, and ultimately created a military power that would dominate European affairs. In the process, the narrative recaptures the dramatic and chaotic span of the years between 1000 and 1400, when the great European monarchies were still in their formative stages. The book discusses the lives of English and Scottish kings in the context of their eras, discussing their achievements and failures, their relations with the Church and foreign powers, and their overall influence on the suppression of the nobility and the development of the monarchy as the primary governing institution of both Scotland and England.
Author | : Elizabeth M. Hallam |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781555841713 |
The Chroniclers of the Middle Ages provide the foundations of all we know about the period. Seldom even-tempered or fair, inveterate gossips, and lovers of scandal, they reveal firsthand the men and women who built our civilization. Full-color illustrations.
Author | : Nick Groom |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199586790 |
There are many interpretations of the word 'Gothic'. Nick Groom explores the rich history and chronology of the term, bringing together various underlying and disparate elements to clarify its meaning. By examining its history, he argues that we can better interpret and understand society today.
Author | : HENRY BRADLEY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1888 |
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Author | : Herwig Wolfram |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520069831 |
Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.
Author | : Kamilla Elliott |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421408643 |
Examples from British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show how portraits became a new mode of identity for the middle class. Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott, our current practices of “picture identification” (driver’s licenses, passports, and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates. Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction examines ways writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and C. R. Maturin as well as artists, historians, politicians, and periodical authors dealt with changes in how social identities were understood and valued in British culture—specifically, who was represented by portraits and how they were represented as they vied for social power. Elliott investigates multiple aspects of picture identification: its politics, epistemologies, semiotics, and aesthetics, and the desires and phobias that it produces. Her extensive research not only covers Gothic literature’s best-known and most studied texts but also engages with more than 100 Gothic works in total, expanding knowledge of first-wave Gothic fiction as well as opening new windows into familiar work.
Author | : Roger Collins |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470754567 |
This history of Spain in the period between the end of Roman rule and the time of the Arab conquest challenges many traditional assumptions about the history of this period. Presents original theories about how the Visigothic kingdom was governed, about law in the kingdom, about the Arab conquest, and about the rise of Spain as an intellectual force. Takes account of new documentary evidence, the latest archaeological findings, and the controversies that these have generated. Combines chronological and thematic approaches to the period. A historiographical introduction looks at the current state of research on the history and archaeology of the Visigothic kingdom.
Author | : John Gillingham |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2000-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019285402X |
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 identity in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Yet this was an age, too, of growing definition of Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural tradition. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : Robin S. Oggins |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300100587 |
Perhaps the equivalent of polo-playing today, the sport of falconry was the preserve of the wealthy and royalty, regarded as both a suitable and enjoyable leisure activity, and as a source of status and prestige.
Author | : Robert Southey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1818 |
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