Royal Rage and the Construction of Anglo-Norman Authority, c. 1000-1250 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Royal Rage and the Construction of Anglo-Norman Authority, c. 1000-1250 write by Kate McGrath. This book was released on 2019-02-18. Royal Rage and the Construction of Anglo-Norman Authority, c. 1000-1250 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority. It argues that ecclesiastical writers used their works to legitimize certain displays of royal anger, often resulting in violence, while at the same time deploying a shared emotional language that also allowed them to condemn other types of displays. These texts are particularly concerned about displays of anger in regard to suppressing revolt, ensuring justice, protecting honor, and respecting the status of kingship. In all of these areas, the role of ecclesiastical and lay counsel forms an important limit on the growth and expansion of royal prerogatives.
Early Medieval Winchester
Early Medieval Winchester - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Medieval Winchester write by Ryan Lavelle. This book was released on 2021-11-30. Early Medieval Winchester available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.
The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History
The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History write by Allen Boyer. This book was released on 2024-02-01. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. Describing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this worst of crimes. It explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book. This book also considers why treason as both a word and a concept remains so potent in wider modern culture, investigating prevalent current misconceptions about what is and what is not treason. It concludes by suggesting that the abolition or 'death' of treason in the near future, while a logical next step, is by no means a foregone conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History is a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history.
Constance of France
Constance of France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constance of France write by Myra Miranda Bom. This book was released on 2022-11-12. Constance of France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance’s life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the historical evidence of chronicles, charters, seal imprints and letters. The countess’s long and interesting life makes for women’s history with a large geographical scope, including France, England, Toulouse and the Latin East. It touches on many aspects of life during the Middle Ages such as birth, marriage and divorce, gender roles, experience of time, and expectation for the afterlife. Bom demonstrates how and to what extent medieval women could, and did, take control of their own lives. This book is an account of the interplay of historical context and agency.
Power and Pleasure
Power and Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Pleasure write by Hugh M. Thomas. This book was released on 2020-11-19. Power and Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although King John is remembered for his political and military failures, he also resided over a magnificent court. Power and Pleasure reconstructs life at the court of King John and explores how his court produced both pleasure and soft power. Much work exists on courts of the late medieval and early modern periods, but the jump in record keeping under John allows a detailed reconstruction of court life for an earlier period. Power and Pleasure: Court Life under King John, 1199-1216 examines the many facets of John's court, exploring hunting, feasting, castles, landscapes, material luxury, chivalry, sexual coercion, and religious activities. It explains how John mishandled his use of soft power, just as he failed to exploit his financial and military advantages, and why he received so little political benefit from his magnificent court. John's court is viewed in comparison to other courts of the time, and in previous and subsequent centuries.
