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Zusatztext Completely up-to-date and assimilating immense reading, it ranges from devotion and ideas to the rural and urban economy and society, politics and the constitution. Grand narrative interacts with deep analysis and a mass of data is succinctly deployed. Nowhere is it ever less than authoritative, and invariably readable throughout. Informationen zum Autor Gerald Harriss is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College! Oxford. Klappentext The Black Death. The Peasants' Revolt. The Hundred Years War. The War of the Roses. A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and penetrating account of this formative period, Gerald Harriss draws on the research of the last thirty years to illuminate late medieval society at its peak, from the triumphalism of Edward III in 1360 to the collapse of Lancastrian rule. The political narrative centers on the deposition of Richard II in 1399 and the establishment of the House of Lancaster, which was in turn overthrown in the Wars of the Roses. Abroad, Henry V's heroic victory at Agincourt in 1415 led to the English conquest of northern France, lasting until 1450. Both produced long term consequences: the first shaped the English constitution up to the Stuart civil war, while the second generated lasting hostility between England and France, and a residual wariness of military intervention in Europe. Zusammenfassung The Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses... A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and penetrating account of this formative period, Gerald Harriss illuminates a richly varied society, as chronicled in The Canterbury Tales, and examines its developing sense of national identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART 1: POLITICAL SOCIETY ; 1. Concepts of Governance ; 2. The King and the Court ; 3. Central Government ; 4. The Nobility ; 5. The Gentry ; 6. The Local Polity ; PART 2: WORK AND WORSHIP ; 7. Agrarian Society ; 8. Trade! Industry! and Towns ; 9. The Institutional Church ; 10. Religion! Devotion! and Dissent ; PART 3: MEN AND EVENTS ; 11. England! France! and Christendom 1360-1413 ; 12. Ruling England 1360-1413 ; 13. England and her Neighbours ; 14. The English in France 1413-1453 ; 15. Ruling England 1413-1461 ; CONCLUSION: THE EMERGING NATION ...
