The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler - 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 Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler write by Robert B. Patterson. This book was released on 2019. The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (1088-1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and bastard eldest son of King Henry I of England. Robert could not succeed his father, but played a key role in the Anarchy against King Stephen, and had a lasting impact on British cultural and political history.
The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler
The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler - 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 Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler write by Robert B. Patterson. This book was released on 2019-01-24. The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (c.1088-1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and eldest son of King Henry I of England (1100-35), who could not succeed his father because he was a bastard. Instead, as the earl of Gloucester, he helped change the course of English history by keeping alive the prospects for an Angevin succession through his leadership of its supporters against his father's successor, King Stephen (1135-54) in the civil war known as the Anarchy. Robert of Gloucester is one of the great figures of Anglo-Norman history (1066-1154). He occupies important niches in the era's literature, from comprehensive political studies of Henry I's and Stephen's reigns and an array of specialized fields to the 'Brother Cadfael' novels of Ellis Peters. Gloucester was one of only three landed super-magnates of his day, a model post-Conquest great baron, Marcher lord, borough developer, and patron of the rising merchant class. His trans-Channel barony stretched from western Lower Normandy across England to south Wales. Robert was both a product and a significant agent of the contemporary cultural revival known as the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, being bi-lingual, well educated, and a significant literary patron. In this last role he is especially notable for commissioning the greatest English historian since Bede, William of Malmesbury, to produce a history of their times which justified the empress Matilda's claim to the English throne and Earl Robert's support of it.
The Heimskringla; Or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
The Heimskringla; Or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway - 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 Heimskringla; Or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway write by . This book was released on 1844. The Heimskringla; Or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler
The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler - 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 Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler write by Robert B. Patterson. This book was released on 2018-12-20. The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (c.1088-1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and eldest son of King Henry I of England (1100-35), who could not succeed his father because he was a bastard. Instead, as the earl of Gloucester, he helped change the course of English history by keeping alive the prospects for an Angevin succession through his leadership of its supporters against his father's successor, King Stephen (1135-54) in the civil war known as the Anarchy. Robert of Gloucester is one of the great figures of Anglo-Norman history (1066-1154). He occupies important niches in the era's literature, from comprehensive political studies of Henry I's and Stephen's reigns and an array of specialized fields to the 'Brother Cadfael' novels of Ellis Peters. Gloucester was one of only three landed super-magnates of his day, a model post-Conquest great baron, Marcher lord, borough developer, and patron of the rising merchant class. His trans-Channel barony stretched from western Lower Normandy across England to south Wales. Robert was both a product and a significant agent of the contemporary cultural revival known as the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, being bi-lingual, well educated, and a significant literary patron. In this last role he is especially notable for commissioning the greatest English historian since Bede, William of Malmesbury, to produce a history of their times which justified the empress Matilda's claim to the English throne and Earl Robert's support of it.
The Chronicle of John of Worcester
The Chronicle of John of Worcester - 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 Chronicle of John of Worcester write by . This book was released on 2024-08-08. The Chronicle of John of Worcester available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John of Worcester is celebrated for his work on the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, which was put together in stages in the first half of the twelfth century, and which became one of the most important historical texts to have survived from Britain of that period. A great deal of our understanding of early medieval British history, from before and after the Norman Conquest, depends upon it. At a late stage in the production of the Chronica Chronicarum, John turned his hand to the writing of an abbreviated chronicle, which he called his Chronicula, and which survives in a single, autograph manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin. The Chronicula interacts with its parent text, the Chronica Chronicarum, in interesting ways: it reassembles the Chronica according to the reigns of the emperors, it splices together information from different annals and sometimes redrafts the Chronica's entries, thus providing an altered emphasis. The Chronicula also contains unique details (notably a set of poems and two long miracle episodes) and makes use of sources in ways that are not seen in the Chronica. In editing, translating, and providing a full introduction and commentary to the Chronicula for the first time, the volume provides both crucial access to twelfth-century historiographical material and unprecedented detail concerning the working methods of a twelfth-century monastic historian.
