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Papers on aspects of the growth of royal government during the century. The size and jurisdiction of English royal government underwent sustained development in the thirteenth century, an understanding of which is crucial to a balanced view of medieval English society. The papers here follow three central themes: the development of central government, law and justice, and the crown and the localities. Examined within this framework are bureaucracy and enrolment under John and his contemporaries; the Royal Chancery; the adaptation of the Exchequer in response to the rapidly changing demands of the crown; the introduction of a licensing system for mortmain alienations; the administration of local justice; women as sheriffs; and a Nottinghamshire study examining the tensions between the role of the king as manorial lord and as monarch. Contributors: NICK BARRATT, PAUL R. BRAND, DAVID CARPENTER, DAVID CROOK, ANTHONY MUSSON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT, LOUISE WILKINSON

Great Britain --- Politics and government --- History --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Bureaucracy. --- English Government. --- Law and Justice. --- Localities. --- Medieval Society. --- Royal Government. --- Thirteenth Century. --- 1154-1399.

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Over the last fifty years Ann Williams has transformed our understanding of Anglo-Saxon and Norman society in her studies of personalities and elites. In this collection, leading scholars in the field revisit themes that have been central to her work, and open up new insights into the workings of the multi-cultural communities of the realm of England in the early Middle Ages. There are detailed discussions of local and regional elites and the interplay between them that fashioned the distinctive institutions of local government in the pre-Conquest period; radical new readings of key events such as the crisis of 1051 and a reassessment of the Bayeux Tapestry as the beginnings of the 'Historia Anglorum'; studies of the impact of the Norman Conquest and the survival of the English; and explorations of the social, political, and administrative cultures in post-Conquest England and Normandy. The individual essays are united overall by the articulation of the local, regional, and national identities that that shaped the societies of the period. Contributors: S.D. Church, William Aird, Lucy Marten, Hirokazu Tsurushima, Valentine Fallan, Judith Everard, Vanessa King, Pamela Taylor, Charles Insley, Simon Keynes, Sally Harvey, K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, David Bates, Emma Mason, David Roffe, Mark Hagger.

England --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- Social conditions --- History --- History. --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon. --- Anglo-Saxon civilization --- Anglo-Saxons --- Anglo-Norman. --- Cultural identity. --- English. --- Legacy. --- Local government. --- Medieval society. --- Middle Ages. --- Norman Conquest.

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Here is an overarching, comprehensive analysis of the French military in the medieval period, focusing on the armies of the French monarchy and the lands close around them, and extending from the Low Countries to Provence.

HISTORY / Military / Medieval. --- France. --- History. --- Francia --- France --- Historia militar. --- History --- History, Military. --- armies. --- chivalry. --- culture of war. --- fortifications. --- medieval society. --- military technology. --- monarchy in the European Middle Ages. --- tactics. --- France combattante. --- Histoire militaire --- Histoire.

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The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interested in the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England's medieval landscapes. Tom Williamson is Professor of Landscape History, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.

Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Historical geography. --- Histoire --- Géographie historique --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Anglo-Saxon Period. --- Anglo-Saxon period. --- Early Medieval Society. --- Early medieval England. --- England. --- Field Systems. --- Geographical Features. --- Landscape. --- Natural Environment. --- Physical Geography. --- Regional Variations. --- Settlement Patterns. --- Social Structures. --- environment. --- field systems. --- geographical features. --- historical analysis. --- landscape. --- physical geography. --- settlement patterns. --- social structures.

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"A series which is a model of its kind". Edmund King, History

Normans --- Anglo-Saxons --- Saxons --- Northmen --- History --- Great Britain --- Anglo-Norman Studies XLI. --- Anglo-Norman history. --- Anglo-Norman rulers. --- Battle Conference 2018. --- England. --- Norman Conquest. --- castle construction. --- chanson de geste. --- historical research. --- intellectual history. --- material culture. --- medieval England. --- medieval archaeology. --- medieval art. --- medieval culture. --- medieval history. --- medieval manuscripts. --- medieval nobility. --- medieval politics. --- medieval scholarship. --- medieval society. --- medieval warfare. --- royal authority.