Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Zusatztext ... this is a lively and stimulating collection. There is evidence here of the continued vigour which characterizes the study of this still puzzling period. Informationen zum Autor Ralph Griffiths is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wales, Swansea. His publications include the best selling Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy (OUP 1988) and, with John Gillingham, Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2000). Klappentext This book encompasses the histories of England! Ireland! Scotland! and Wales! and also considers the relationships between the different parts of the British Isles. Six chapters examine key themes in turn: society and population! economic life! religion! intellectual life and cultural expression! kingdoms and dominions at peace and at war! and kingship and government. Zusammenfassung Explores the long-term developments and short term-crises of a period which includes the Hundred Years War and the Peasants Revolt. This survey includes a political narrative and a thematic treatment of economic development, social change, the Church, and intellectual and cultural life across two centuries in the history of the British Isles.

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• Authors: Ralph Griffiths, Ralph A. Griffiths
• Assisted by: Ralph Griffiths (Editor), Ralph A. Griffiths (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2003
• EAN: 9780198731412
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873141-2
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Short Oxford History of the British Isles; Short Oxford History of the Br; Short Oxford History of the Br; Short Oxford History of the British Isles
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, HISTORY / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History