Author: Eljas Oksanen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521760992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book explores the relations and exchanges between Flanders and the Anglo-Norman realm following the union of England and Normandy in 1066.
Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1216
Author: Eljas Oksanen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521760992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book explores the relations and exchanges between Flanders and the Anglo-Norman realm following the union of England and Normandy in 1066.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521760992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book explores the relations and exchanges between Flanders and the Anglo-Norman realm following the union of England and Normandy in 1066.
Anglo-Norman Studies XLIV
Author: Stephen D. Church
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277130
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The most recent cutting-edge scholarship on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277130
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The most recent cutting-edge scholarship on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries.
East Anglia and Its North Sea World in the Middle Ages
Author: Aleksander Pluskowski
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1783270365
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1783270365
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives.
Medieval Sex Lives
Author: Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501771892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music and poetry was composed and performed. In a focused analysis of the Oxford Bodelian Library's Douce 308 manuscript—a fourteenth-century compilation that includes over five hundred Old French lyrics composed over two centuries alongside a narrative account of elaborate courtly festivities centered on a week-long tournament—Elizabeth Eva Leach explores two distinct but related lines of inquiry: first, why the lyric tradition of "courtly love" had such a long and successful history in Western European culture; and, second, why the songs in the Bodleian manuscript would have been so important to the book's compilers, owners, and readers. The manuscript's lack of musical notation and authorial attributions make it unusual among Old French songbooks; its arrangement of the lyrics by genre invites inquiry into the relationship between this long musical tradition and the emotional and sexual lives of its readers. Combining an original account of the manuscript's contents and their likely social milieu with in-depth musical and poetic analyses, Leach proposes that lyrics, whether read or heard aloud, provided a fertile means of propagating and enabling various sexual scripts in the Middle Ages. Drawing on musicology, literary history, and the sociology and psychology of sexuality, Medieval Sex Lives presents a provocative hypothesis about the power of courtly songs to model, inspire, and support sexual behaviors and fantasies.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501771892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music and poetry was composed and performed. In a focused analysis of the Oxford Bodelian Library's Douce 308 manuscript—a fourteenth-century compilation that includes over five hundred Old French lyrics composed over two centuries alongside a narrative account of elaborate courtly festivities centered on a week-long tournament—Elizabeth Eva Leach explores two distinct but related lines of inquiry: first, why the lyric tradition of "courtly love" had such a long and successful history in Western European culture; and, second, why the songs in the Bodleian manuscript would have been so important to the book's compilers, owners, and readers. The manuscript's lack of musical notation and authorial attributions make it unusual among Old French songbooks; its arrangement of the lyrics by genre invites inquiry into the relationship between this long musical tradition and the emotional and sexual lives of its readers. Combining an original account of the manuscript's contents and their likely social milieu with in-depth musical and poetic analyses, Leach proposes that lyrics, whether read or heard aloud, provided a fertile means of propagating and enabling various sexual scripts in the Middle Ages. Drawing on musicology, literary history, and the sociology and psychology of sexuality, Medieval Sex Lives presents a provocative hypothesis about the power of courtly songs to model, inspire, and support sexual behaviors and fantasies.
The Feudal Kingdom of England, 1042-1216
Author: Frank Barlow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Now in its fifth edition, this hugely successful text remains as vivid and readable as ever. Frank Barlow illuminates every aspect of the Anglo-Norman world, but the central appeal of the book continues to be its firm narrative structure. Here is a fascinating story compellingly told. At the beginning of the period he shows us an England that is still, politically and culturally, on the fringe of the classical world. By the end of John's reign, the new world that has emerged was in outlook, structure and character, recognisable as part of the modern age. Incorporating the findings of the most recent scholarship in the field - much of it Barlow's own - the fifth edition includes new material on the role of women in Anglo-Norman England.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Now in its fifth edition, this hugely successful text remains as vivid and readable as ever. Frank Barlow illuminates every aspect of the Anglo-Norman world, but the central appeal of the book continues to be its firm narrative structure. Here is a fascinating story compellingly told. At the beginning of the period he shows us an England that is still, politically and culturally, on the fringe of the classical world. By the end of John's reign, the new world that has emerged was in outlook, structure and character, recognisable as part of the modern age. Incorporating the findings of the most recent scholarship in the field - much of it Barlow's own - the fifth edition includes new material on the role of women in Anglo-Norman England.
Norman Rule in Normandy, 911-1144
Author: Mark S. Hagger
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783272147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
A magisterial survey of Normandy from its origins in the tenth century to its conquest some two hundred years later.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783272147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
A magisterial survey of Normandy from its origins in the tenth century to its conquest some two hundred years later.
The Haskins Society Journal 31
Author: Laura L. Gathagan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
New insights into interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
New insights into interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries.
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2014
Author: Elisabeth M. C. van Houts
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The latest research on aspects of the Anglo-Norman world.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The latest research on aspects of the Anglo-Norman world.
A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World
Author: Christopher Harper-Bill
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9781843833413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is an introduction to the history of England and Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries. Within the broad field of cultural history, there are discussions of language, literature, the writing of history and ecclesiastical architecture.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9781843833413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is an introduction to the history of England and Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries. Within the broad field of cultural history, there are discussions of language, literature, the writing of history and ecclesiastical architecture.
Henry the Young King, 1155-1183
Author: Matthew Strickland
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300219555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father’s lifetime. Crowned at fifteen to secure an undisputed succession, Henry played a central role in the politics of Henry II’s great empire and was hailed as the embodiment of chivalry. Yet, consistently denied direct rule, the Young King was provoked first into heading a major rebellion against his father, then to waging a bitter war against his brother Richard for control of Aquitaine, dying before reaching the age of thirty having never assumed actual power. In this remarkable history, Matthew Strickland provides a richly colored portrait of an all-but-forgotten royal figure tutored by Thomas Becket, trained in arms by the great knight William Marshal, and incited to rebellion by his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, while using his career to explore the nature of kingship, succession, dynastic politics, and rebellion in twelfth-century England and France.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300219555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father’s lifetime. Crowned at fifteen to secure an undisputed succession, Henry played a central role in the politics of Henry II’s great empire and was hailed as the embodiment of chivalry. Yet, consistently denied direct rule, the Young King was provoked first into heading a major rebellion against his father, then to waging a bitter war against his brother Richard for control of Aquitaine, dying before reaching the age of thirty having never assumed actual power. In this remarkable history, Matthew Strickland provides a richly colored portrait of an all-but-forgotten royal figure tutored by Thomas Becket, trained in arms by the great knight William Marshal, and incited to rebellion by his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, while using his career to explore the nature of kingship, succession, dynastic politics, and rebellion in twelfth-century England and France.