R. Trevor Davies

Documents Illustrating the History of Civilization in Medieval England (eBook, ePUB)

1066-1500

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The author of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history. He compiled this volume with the aim of giving easy access to important documents of political history for the period between the Norman Conquest and the Accession of the House of Tudor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040330326
• Artikelnr.: 73648110

Autorenporträt

R. Trevor Davies was Professor of History at the University of Oxford and Vice-Principal of Culham College.

Inhaltsangabe

1.The Norman Conquest i) Domesday Book - Motives for its Formation;
Extracts; Statistics ii). William of Malmesbury's account of the Norman
Conquest iii). An Estimate of William the Conqueror from the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle 2. The constitutional Struggle Between the Brons and the Monarchy
3. The Catholic Church 4. Trade Guilds and Universities 5. The Age of the
Crusades i) The First Crusade: Extract from William of Malmesbury's
Chronicle of the Kings of England ii) Extracts from the Itinerarium
Kambriae of Giraldus Cambrensis iii) Extracts from Joinville's Chronicle of
the Crusade of St. Louis iv) Extracts from the Voyages and Travels of 'Sir
John Maundeville' v) Extracts from the Works of Roger Bacon 6. The Hundred
Years' War i) The Military Exploits: Froissart's Account of the Battle of
Creçy ii) The War and the Church 7. The Black Death i) The Statute of
Labourers, 1349 ii) The Second Statute of Labourers, 1351 iii) Population
of England as Recorded in the Poll-Tax Accounts of 1377 and 1381 iv)
Extracts from the Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales v) The Vision of
Piers Plowman: Prologue and Parts of Passus I 8. The Decline of Medieval
Civilization i) A Selection from the Paston Letters ii) Extracts from the
Stonor Papers 9. The End of the Middle Ages i) The Libel of English Policy
ii) Extracts from More's History of King Richard III