Ralph Henry Carless Davies

King Stephen (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This well-known text, the standard account of the subject, is essential reading for students and scholars of the Norman period from undergraduate level upwards, and was hailed on first publication as: " a landmark in twelfth-century studies." Written in the form of a biography this completely revised and updated edition discusses the significant social, governmental and religious developments as they arose in the course of the narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317900535
• Artikelnr.: 40344863

Autorenporträt

R.H.C. Davis

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps and tables.  Preface to the first edition.  Preface to third
edition.  Acknowledgements.  Abbreviations. I Parentage and early life, c
1096-1135.  II. The succession, 1135-1136.  III Mistakes, 1136-1139.  IV.
The Empress and her party, 1136-1140.  V. Disaster, 1140-1141.  VI.
Recovery, 1141.  VII. A second start, 1142-1143.  VIII. Stalemate,
1143-1147.  IX. The new opposition, 1147-1149.  X The Magnates' Peace,
1150-1154.  Appendix I Earls and earldoms.  Appendix II Principal
participants in the Civil War.  Appendix III. The chronicle sources. 
Appendix IV. Politics and property.  Appendix V. The Beaumont twins:
Waleran of Meulan and Robert Earl of Leicester.  Appendix VI. Geoffrey de
Mandeville.  Appendix VII. Ranulf Earl of Chester and Coventry.  Appendix
VIII. Regesta III:  Additions and Corrections.  Index