Scalacronica
Author | : Thomas Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Clifford J. Rogers |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2007-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313042012 |
The most dangerous arms in the world are those of horse and lance, because there is no means of stopping them, wrote a 15th-century commander, Jean de Bueil. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the 15th century, the men (and a few women in disguise) who reported for military service or who led other men, scouted and skirmished, plundered and burned. If they did not slaughter the peasants they met, they took them prisoner to be sold as slaves or ransomed at heavy cost. It was a brutal time. Rogers illuminates the history of medieval soldiers in wartime and in peacetime, describing the lives of those who attacked, and those who defended, the fortified castles, towns, and lands of Europe and beyond in the Middle Age.
Author | : Richard James Moll |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802037220 |
Although most modern scholars doubt the historicity of King Arthur, parts of the legend were accepted as fact throughout the Middle Ages. Medieval accounts of the historical Arthur, however, present a very different king from the romances that are widely studied today. Richard Moll examines a wide variety of historical texts including Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and John Hardyng's Chronicle to explore the relationship between the Arthurian chronicles and the romances. He demonstrates how competing and conflicting traditions interacted with one another, and how writers and readers of Arthurian texts negotiated a complex textual tradition. Moll asserts that the enormous variety and number of existing chronicles demonstrates the immense popularity of the historical Arthur in medieval England. Since these chronicles were the dominant source of Arthurian information for the late medieval reader, they provide an invaluable, and neglected, interpretive context for modern readers of Malory and other later medieval romances. The first monograph to look at the impact of these historical texts on Arthurian literature, Before Malory is also the first to show how canonical vernacular romances interacted with chronicle texts that have since dropped out of the canon.
Author | : Stephen Spinks |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2019-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445685086 |
A new and revealing portrait of the king behind the legend during the turmoil of the First Scottish Wars of Independence, based on primary sources.
Author | : John Spence |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 190315345X |
The medieval Anglo-Norman prose chronicles are fascinating hybrids of history, legends and romance. Their prime subject is the history of England, but they also shed much light on other networks of influence, such as those between families and religious houses. This book studies the essential characteristics of the genre for the first time, situating Anglo-Norman prose chronicles within the multilingual cultures of late medieval England. It considers the chronicles' treatment of the ""legendary history of Britain"", legends about English heroes, accounts of the Norman Conquest, and histories o.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401205515 |
There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions.The yearbook The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds. The Medieval Chronicle is published in cooperation with the Medieval Chronicle Society.
Author | : Nigel Saul |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780851157764 |
Biennial volumes of new research on an eventful century coloured by the Plantagenet dynasty.
Author | : Michael Penman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2014-06-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300209282 |
Robert the Bruce (1274–1329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior, Michael Penman focuses on Robert’s kingship in the fifteen years that followed his triumphant victory and establishes Robert as not only a great military leader but a great monarch. Robert faced a slow and often troubled process of legitimating his authority, restoring government, rewarding his supporters, accommodating former enemies, and controlling the various regions of his kingdom, none of which was achieved overnight. Penman investigates Robert’s resettlement of lands and offices, the development of Scotland’s parliaments, his handling of plots to overthrow him, his relations with his family and allies, his piety and court ethos, and his conscious development of an image of kingship through the use of ceremony and symbol. In doing so, Penman repositions Robert within the context of wider European political change, religion, culture, and national identity as well as recurrent crises of famine and disease.
Author | : George Unwin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
First Published in 1962. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.