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The World Before Domesday
Author | : Ann Williams |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781441121189 |
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Ann Williams' important new book discusses the dynamics of English aristocratic society in a way that has not been explored before. She investigates the rewards and obligations of status including birth, wealth, the importance of public and royal service and the need to participate in local affairs, especially legal and administrative business. This period saw the birth of a 'lesser aristocracy', the ancestors of the English gentry, the power-house of society and politics in the late medieval and early modern periods. Going on to examine the obligations and rewards of lordship and the relations between lords and their men, Williams illustrates how status was displayed and covers the importance of the manorial house, which was at once a home, an estate centre and a symbol of authority and the insignia of rank in weaponry, clothing and personal adornment. The growing gap between the highest rank of society and the lowest, fuelled by underlying economic developments is also covered. In conclusion she considers some of the occupations which symbolized and perpetuated lordly power. Though the upper levels of aristocratic society were swept away by the Norman settlement, the 'lesser aristocracy' had a much higher rate of survival and it was this group who began the manorialization of English society, familiar from the late medieval period.
Doomsday Book
Author | : Connie Willis |
Publsiher | : Spectra |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 1993-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780553562736 |
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Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.
The Domesday Quest
Author | : Michael Wood |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2011-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781446417577 |
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In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman king William the Conqueror. It was called Domesday, the day of judgement, because 'like the day of judgement, its decisions are unalterable'. In Search of the Roots of England is not only a study of the ancient manuscript but an attempt to analyse the world that Domesday Book so vividly portrayed. By skilful use of the Domesday record historian Michael Wood examines Norman society and the Anglo-Saxon, Roman, and even the Iron Age cultures that preceded it. 'Wood is a perceptive, entertaining and enthusiastic companion.' Sunday Times 'Wood is a lively storyteller.' Washington Post
The English and the Norman Conquest
Author | : Ann Williams |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0851157084 |
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A study of the experiences of the lesser English lords and landowners at the time of the Norman conquest and the aftermath
Domesday Now
Author | : David Roffe,K. S. B. Keats-Rohan |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781783270880 |
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Essays into numerous aspects of the Domesday Book, shedding fresh light on its mysteries.
Domesday Book and Beyond
Author | : Frederic William Maitland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433081652319 |
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Cursor Mundi The Cursur O the World
Author | : Richard Morris |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Christian poetry, English (Middle) |
ISBN | : ONB:+Z282587800 |
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Cursor Mundi The Cursor O the World
Author | : Richard Morris |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : PSU:000005248780 |
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