[PDF] The Later Middle Ages In England 1216 1485 eBook

Author : Bertie Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 131787322X

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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 : George Holmes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393003635

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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.

Author : Bertie Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,47 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 : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9780719041525

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The late Middle Ages (c.1200-1500) was an age of transition. The major events of this period - the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, the rise of Parliament, the depositions of five English kings between 1327 and 1483 - are examined in detail in this book.

Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0141908009

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There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Agincourt. The extraordinary artistic achievements - the great churches, castles and tombs that still dominate the landscape, the birth of the English language in The Canterbury Tales. For the first time in a generation, a historian has had the vision and confidence to write a spell-binding account of the era immortalised by Shakespeare's history plays. THE HOLLOW CROWN brilliantly brings to life for the reader a world we have long lost - a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war - but continues to define so much of England's national myth.

Author : M.H. Keen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 113448304X

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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, constantly changing period. The second edition of this book, while maintaining the character of the