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The reign of King Stephen (1135-54) has usually been seen as uniquely disastrous in the history of the medieval England. This book aims to challenge this picture and shows that much of what has been written about Stephen has been based on the selective use of the testimony of hostile witnesses.

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A collection of 14 papers by Van Caenegem, all but one previously unpublished in English, which contrast the development of legal and political institutions across England and northern Europe. Other subjects include influential historians and the nature of modern historiography.

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Essays on medieval law, including a number of comparative studies on England and the low countries.

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A collection of essays which brings out the virtues rather than the failings' of medieval writers of history, highlighting their attitudes and habits of thought, and stressing the importance of tradition.

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A portrait of everyday life in medieval times looks at the various types of people who lived and worked in Europe during that time.

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A cultural history of one of the most important centres of the Hellenistic and Byzantine world.

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This book considers a range of antiquarian practices history-writing, archaeological investigations, works of art, architecture and literature that emerged in early modern Europe. Challenging the idea of a single 'Renaissance', it assembles essays on local antiquities in Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland.

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Magna Carta Magna Carta is the name later given to a document signed by king John of England under pressure from the barons and other notables of England in the summer of 1215 at a meadow called Runnymede, which is on the river Thames between London and Windsor.

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This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and eccle

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Intimate details about the personal lives of medieval people are rare. Most information comes from the records of the church courts of the province of York, which date from the 14th century. This work investigates cases involving a range of disputes, including sex, consent and violence.

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All too often the medieval social past has been explored as an adjunct to high politics. This book places ordinary men and women, for who the politics of the manor, the village or the borough were often far more real and pressing, at centre stage.

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A collection of Bisson's essays which investigate the feudalism and finance of France and Spain.

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Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, outlining his ground-breaking approach to historical evidence. An important work from one of today's most original and popular medieval historians.

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This is an examination of how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society. The author provides a history of judicial developments in the 13th and 14th centuries and considers the intellectual history in the period.

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The medieval landscape, as traditionally viewed, was hardly populated by women - aside from the occasional queen, mistress, abbess, or mystic. This study aims to fill that gap by examining the experiences and voices of young medieval womanhood.

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This is the first in-depth, comparative study of women's access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of women's legal status in actions that arose from the complex, messy ties of everyday life. -- .

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This is the first in-depth, comparative study of womens access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of womens legal status in actions that arose from the complex, messy ties of everyday life.