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Zusatztext In bringing to life the anxieties of twelfth-century Englishmen, Bartlett rescues from oblivion sources which are either unknown or far too little known. Informationen zum Autor Wardlaw Prof. of Medieval History Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung This vivid and and comprehensive account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest lays bare the patterns of everyday life and increases our understanding of a medieval society at a time when England was more closely tied to Europe than ever before. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Political Patterns: The Struggle for the Succession, 1075-1225; The Cross-Channel Realm; Court Politics; Predatory and Punitive Rule; Rebellion 2: England and Beyond: England and the British Isles; England and the Wider World 3: Lordship and Government: Kingship and Lordship; Regality; The Household and Household Administration; Itineration; Assemblies; Territorial Administration; Royal Finances; Courts and Judgements; Records and Record-Keeping 4: The Aristocracy: The Structure of the Aristocracy; The Aristocratic Estate; The Life of the Aristocracy 5: Warfare: Waging War; Recruitment; Castles 6: The Rural Foundations: The Physical Framework; Population; Settlement Patterns; Land Use and Agricultural Techniques; The Manorial Economy; Rural Social Structure 7: Towns and Trade: Urbanization; Town Law; Urban Self-Government; London; Urban Unrest; The Jews; Trade, the Framework; Commodities; Coinage and Monetization 8: The Institutional Church: The Hierarchy; Kingly Power and Priestly Power; The Religious 9: Religious Life: Concepts of the Holy; Devotion; Saints and their Cults; Overseas Pilgrimage; Dissent 10: Cultural Patterns: Languages and Literature; Education and Higher Learning; The Visual Arts; Performance; The Value of the Arts 11: The Course of Life: Childhood; Naming Patterns; Love, Sex, and Marriage; Manners; Medicine and Healing; Death and the Dead 12: Cosmologies: Time; The World; The Chain of Being; Beings Neither Angelic, Human, nor Animal Chronology of Political Events Bibliography Index ...
