The Reign of King Henry VI

The Reign of King Henry VI
Author: Ralph A. Griffiths
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 1024
Release: 2024-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520312929

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

The Decline of English Feudalism, 1215-1540

The Decline of English Feudalism, 1215-1540
Author: John Malcolm William Bean
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1968
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719002946

Set of anthropological essays responding to the challenges generated by the historian Calvin Martin with his 1978 book, 'Keepers of the game: Indian animal relationships and the fur trade', regarding Indian motivation in the fur trade.

Fourteenth Century England VII

Fourteenth Century England VII
Author: W. M. Ormrod
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843837218

This series provides a forum for the most recent research into the political, social and ecclesiastical history of the 14th century.

The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485

The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485
Author: George Holmes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1966
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393003635

English life in the thirteenth century was characterized by: a single Christian Church owing allegiance to Rome and living on the revenues of its estates; kingship with difficulty kept intact in the face of scheming magnates jealous of their privileges; a countryside divided into thousands of small estates, tilled by peasants--some of them serfs--and owned by lords with considerable power over their tenants; armies of knights fighting on horseback; Gothic cathedrals; monasteries; castles; town gilds. Professor Holmes describes this medieval society and its evolution, after the Black Death, into a somewhat different kind of society in the late fifteenth century. He argues that the population decrease as a result of the plague, beginning in 1349, brought about fundamental transformations: village life changed, serfdom disappeared, the great estates became less important, industry grew, and the commodities and directions of trade changed.