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  • On the Laws and Customs of England

    Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne

    Edited by Sally A. Scully, Thomas A. Green, Stephen D. White, Morris Arnold ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D. Thorne to the study of English legal history from the eleventh to the seventeenth century. The essays combine close study of legal texts and doctrines in their own setting with broader analysis of the interaction of legal and social change. Although ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • King Stephen

    by Edmund King ...
    Series series The English Monarchs Series
    This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135–1154), with its “nineteen long winters” of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths and weaknesses of the monarch. Keeping Stephen at the forefront of his account, the author also ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Stuart Courts

    Edited by Eveline Cruickshanks ...
    The regal courts of the English Stuart Kings, from James I (1603-1625) to the ill-fated James II (1685-1689), were magnificent affairs. In a country otherwise given to increasingly austere Puritan ways of living, the royal court shone with a brilliance usually associated with the courts of the Catholic kings of mainland Europe. They were centres of great culture, patronage, ceremony and politics. ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Memory to Written Record

    England 1066 - 1307

    by Michael T. Clanchy ...
    This seminal work of scholarship, which traces the development of literacy in medieval England, is now fully updated in a third edition.This book serves as an introduction to medieval books and documents for graduate students throughout the worldFeatures a completely re-written first chapter, ‘Memories and Myths of the Norman Conquest', and a new postscript by the author reflecting on the ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327

    by J. R. Maddicott ...
    The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Starting with the national assemblies which began to meet in the reign of King �thelstan, it carries the story through to the fully fledged parliament of lords and commons of the early fourteenth century, which came to be seen as representative ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2, The Age of Reformation

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 4)

    The Isle of Slaves – The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland

    by Ian McBride ...
    Series Book 4 - New Gill History of Ireland
    The eighteenth century is in many ways the most problematic era in Irish history. Traditionally, the years from 1700 to 1775 have been short-changed by historians, who have concentrated overwhelmingly on the last quarter of the period. Professor Ian McBride's survey, the fourth in the New Gill History of Ireland series, seeks to correct that balance. At the same time it provides an accessible and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empire and Revolution

    The Political Life of Edmund Burke

    by Richard Bourke ...
    A major new account of one of the leading philosopher-statesmen of the eighteenth centuryEdmund Burke (1730–97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Hanged Man

    A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages

    by Robert Bartlett ...
    Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his resurrection attributed to the saintly entreaties of the defunct Bishop ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381

    A Transformation of Governance and Law

    by Robert C. Palmer ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Robert Palmer’s pathbreaking study shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. The Black Death killed one-third of the English population between 1348 and 1351. To preserve traditional society, the king’s government aggressively ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Stolen Women in Medieval England

    Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100–1500

    by Caroline Dunn ...
    Series Book 87 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Life in the Medieval University

    by Robert S. Rait ...
    A fascinating look at University life in the Medieval era, written by Scottish historian, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Glasgow Sir Robert Sangster Rait Kt. CBE DL. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus