[PDF] The Later Middle Ages eBook

Author : Christopher Dyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 1989-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521272155

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Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and examines how they obtained their incomes and how they spent them. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter and an updated bibliography.

Author : Glending Olson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501746758

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This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.

Author : M.H. Keen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134483031

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First published to wide critical acclaim in 1973, England in the Later Middle Ages has become a seminal text for students studying this diverse, complex period. This spirited work surveys the period from Edward I to the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, which heralded in the Tudor Age. The second edition of this book, while maintaining the character of the original, brings the study up to date. Each chapter includes a discussion of the historiographical developments of the last decade and the author takes a fresh look at the changing world of the Later Middle Ages, particularly the plague and the economy. Also included is a rewritten introduction.

Author : Francis Oakley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780801493478

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Francis Oakley addresses late-medieval church history in its own terms, pointing out not only discontinuities but also continuities with earlier medieval experience. "By doing so," he writes, "I hope to have avoided the distortions and refractions that occur when that history is seen too obsessively through the lens of the Reformation."

Author : Andri Vauchez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521619813

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This is a standard work of reference for the study of the religious history of western Christianity in the later middle ages which, since its original publication in French in 1981, has come to be regarded as one of the great contributions to medieval studies of recent times. Hagiographical texts and reports of the processes of canonisation - a mode of investigation into saints' lives and their miracles implemented by the popes from the end of the twelfth century - are here used for the first time as major source materials. The book illuminates the main features of the medieval religious mind, and highlights the popes' attempts to gain firmer control over the wide variety of expressions of faith towards the saints in order to promote a higher pattern of devotion and moral behaviour among Christians.

Author : Isabella Lazzarini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0198731647

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This edited volume brings together experts on the later middle ages to chart the principle developments of medieval Europe.

Author : Bertie Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317873238

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This distinguished historical narrative of the Tudor period considers the major themes of the period: the resoration of order, reformation of the Church andthe opening phase in the development of a new England.

Author : Gabriel Byng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107157099

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The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

Author : Trevor Dean
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1526112647

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The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages.

Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1317899148

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This vivid and pioneering study illuminates the different roles played in late medieval society by noblewomen - the most substantial group of women to survive as individuals in medieval documents. They emerge (despite limited political opportunities) as figures of consequence themselves in a landowning society through estate management in their husbands' frequent absences, and through hospitality, patronage and affinity.