Category: England

By K. L. Wood-Legh

Stories in Church lifestyles in England below Edward III was once first released in 1934 as a part of the Cambridge reviews in Medieval existence and idea sequence. Wood-Legh has selected 5 themes of church background which often take place within the Patent Rolls of Edward III. Chancery records have been useful resources of knowledge on points of the medieval church, yet had seldom been systematically studied via church historians sooner than this. The 5 essays disguise royal management of non secular homes, the visitation of hospitals, the appliance of the Statute of Mortmain, chantry chapels, and the appropriation of parish church buildings through non secular homes. All of those subject matters are then with regards to 3 topics, public opinion of the church, the results of the Black loss of life at the church, and the connection among the church and imperative govt. The booklet is a best instance of the way administrative assets can make clear all features of historical past.

By Henry of Avranches, Josiah Russell Cox, John Paul Heironimus

A normal creation to the examine of grasp Henry of Avranches (d. 1260) and an variation of the shorter Latin poems when it comes to England. the final advent contains an account of the assets from which our wisdom of grasp Henry’s poetry is derived, a brief heritage of his recognition, and a caricature of his existence, including a few observations upon the importance of his occupation. within the version of his poems we've got a chronological association so far as attainable.

By Mark A. Kishlansky

The tragedy of Charles I dominates probably the most unusual and painful classes in British historical past because the entire island tore itself aside over a perilous, entangled sequence of spiritual and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's awesome account it's by no means doubtful that Charles created his personal disaster, yet he was once still adverse by way of males with a ways fewer scruples and no more consistency who for occasionally relatively contradictory purposes conspired to break him. this can be a striking portrait of 1 of the main gifted, considerate, dependable, ethical, artistically alert and but, by some means, disastrous of all this country's rulers.

By Edwin Pears

The memoirs of British diplomat and barrister Edwin Pears in the course of his 40-year remain in Constantinople.

By David Howarth

By Nicholas Rogers

After the top of the warfare of Austrian Succession in 1748, hundreds of thousands of unemployed and infrequently unemployable squaddies and seamen came upon themselves at the streets of London able to roister town and scouse borrow whilst worthwhile. during this attention-grabbing e-book Nicholas Rogers explores the ethical panic linked to this speedy demobilization.

Through interlocking tales of duels, street robberies, smuggling, riots, binge consuming, or even earthquakes, Rogers captures the anxieties of a half-decade and assesses the social reforms contemporaries framed and alleged to care for the situation. He argues that during addressing those occasions, contemporaries not just recommended the conventional sanction of public executions, yet wrestled with the matter of increasing the parameters of presidency to incorporate practices and associations we now regard as typical: censuses, the regularization of marriage via uniform equipment of registration, penitentiaries and police forces.

By David Green

The tale of 1 of the good battles of the Hundred Years conflict, frequently overlooked in favour of its extra celebrated siblings, Crecy and Agincourt. The victory at Poitiers by way of an English strength outnumbered two-to-one, led by way of Edward the Black Prince on nineteenth September 1356 used to be probably the most major of the Hundred Years struggle. the implications of the conflict resonated in the course of the rest of the century and prompted the battle to its result in 1453. David eco-friendly has researched the conflict and the raids that preceded it exhaustively and information the method, strategies, palms and armour utilized by each side. He reconstructs the conflict utilizing an array of up to date resources and discusses the protagonists, the sighting, path and consequence of the come across and considers the consequences of the seize of King Jean II of France and plenty of of an important participants of the French the Aristocracy.

By Robin Eagles (auth.)

By Terence Hartley

The records assembled during this quantity have been chosen through Sir John Neale and plenty of of them have been utilized in his examine of the home of Commons and in his two-volume learn of Elizabeth's parliaments. they're divided into the diaries or journals complied via person contributors at the one hand, and at the different, separate debts of speeches meant for, or introduced, in Parliament, and of different complaints in relation to unmarried concerns. the rules on which this compilation has been offered are in step with these within the first quantity, topic to the amendment followed within the moment.

By Eamon Duffy

J.A. Froude used to be one of many most interesting English literary stylists of the Victorian age. yet he was once hugely severe of Mary Tudor, whose reign he seen as whatever of a catastrophe. Eamon Duffy takes a really diversified view and so this booklet will touch off much more controversy approximately this such a lot maligned of English monarchs.