The Rise And Fall Of A Medieval Family
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The Rise And Fall Of A Medieval Family
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Author : Kathryn Warner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-30
The Rise And Fall Of A Medieval Family written by Kathryn Warner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-30 with categories.
The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favourite and perhaps lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great influence, and Hugh the Younger's greed and tyranny brought down a king for the first time in English history and almost destroyed his own family. Rise and Fall tells the story of the ups and downs of this fascinating family from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, when three Despenser lords were beheaded and two fell in battle. We begin with Hugh the justiciar, who died rebelling against King Henry III and his son in 1265, and end with Thomas Despenser, summarily beheaded in 1400 after attempting to free a deposed Richard II, and Thomas's posthumous daughter Isabella, a countess twice over and the grandmother of Richard III's queen.From the medieval version of Prime Ministers to the (possible) lovers of monarchs, the aristocratic Despenser family wielded great power in medieval England. Drawing on the popular intrigue and infamy of the Despenser clan, Kathryn Warner's book traces the lives of the most notorious, powerful and influential members of this patrician family over a 200 year span.
The Rise And Fall Of A Medieval Family
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Author : Kathryn Warner
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2021-12-30
The Rise And Fall Of A Medieval Family written by Kathryn Warner and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with categories.
The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps lover.
The Rise And Decline Of The Male Breadwinner Family
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Author : Angélique Janssens
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-04-09
The Rise And Decline Of The Male Breadwinner Family written by Angélique Janssens and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-09 with Family & Relationships categories.
The essays look at the origins and expansion of different patterns of breadwinning.
Marriage And The Family In The Middle Ages
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Author : Frances Gies
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Marriage And The Family In The Middle Ages written by Frances Gies and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with History categories.
From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic “Medieval Life” series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable account of the family unit as it evolved throughout the Medieval period—reissued for the first time in decades. “Some particular books that I found useful for Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention. Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies.” —George R. R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones Throughout history, the significance of the family—the basic social unit—has been vital. In Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies trace the development of marriage and the family from the medieval era to early modern times. It describes how the Roman and barbarian cultural streams merged under the influence of the Christian church to forge new concepts, customs, laws, and practices. Century by century, the Gies follow the development—sometimes gradual, at other times revolutionary—of significant components in the history of the family including: The basic functions of the family as a production unit, as well as its religious, social, judicial, and educational roles. The shift of marriage from private arrangement between families to public ceremony between individuals, and the adjustments in dowry, bride-price, and counter-dowry. The development of consanguinity rules and incest taboos in church law and lay custom. The peasant family in its varying condition of being free or unfree, poor, middling, or rich. The aristocratic estate, the problem of the younger son, and the disinheritance of daughters. The Black Death and its long-term effects on the family. Sex attitudes and customs: the effects of variations in age of men and women at marriage. The changing physical environment of noble, peasant, and urban families. Arrangements by families for old age and retirement. Expertly researched, master historians Frances and Joseph Gies—whose books were used by George R.R. Martin in his research for Game of Thrones—paint a compelling, detailed portrait of family life and social customs in one of the most riveting eras in history.
Medieval Families
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Author : Carol Neel
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Medieval Families written by Carol Neel and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Family & Relationships categories.
The collection reveals how scholars of the 1970s through the 1990s argued the importance of previously unconsidered questions about the shape of medieval familial experience, and how their mutual information and criticism has refined and added to this investigation in the intervening period.
Medieval Households
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Author : David HERLIHY
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Medieval Households written by David HERLIHY and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life. In a series of bold hypotheses, he presents his ideas about the emergence of a distinctive medieval household and its transformation over a thousand years. Ancient societies lacked the concept of the family as a moral unit and displayed an extraordinary variety of living arrangements, from the huge palaces of the rich to the hovels of the slaves. Not until the seventh and eighth centuries did families take on a more standard form as a result of the congruence of material circumstances, ideological pressures, and the force of cultural norms. By the eleventh century, families had acquired a characteristic kinship organization first visible among elites and then spreading to other classes. From an indifferent network of descent through either male or female lines evolved the new concept of patrilineage, or descent and inheritance through the male line. For the first time a clear set of emotional ties linked family members. It is the author's singular contribution to show how, as they evolved from their heritages of either barbarian society or classical antiquity, medieval households developed commensurable forms, distinctive ties of kindred, and a tighter moral and emotional unity to produce the family as we know it. Herlihy's range of sources is prodigious: ancient Roman and Greek authors, Aquinas, Augustine, archives of monasteries, sermons of saints, civil and canon law, inquisitorial records, civil registers, charters, censuses and surveys, wills, marriage certificates, birth records, and more. This well-written book will be the starting point for all future studies of medieval domestic life.
Give A Manor Take A Manor
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Author : Murray Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-23
Give A Manor Take A Manor written by Murray Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-23 with History categories.
Domestic rebellions and foreign wars, the king's rule, murder, traitors and execution, crippling debt, arranged marriages of young heirs and heiresses, avoidance of taxes, medieval decrees of inheritance, the black death and famine. All that and more can be found in a fascinating new book based on the meticulous research of exceptional author Murray Johnston. While his first book, The Watford Knight's Fee, will satisfy serious students and enthusiasts of medieval English history, his second opens the door to everyone. A time machine takes the reader along a fascinating and sometimes wobbly journey with the lords of the manor through 700 years - including, unique in English history, one family for 500 years. Welcome to the world of manors in medieval England!
Galbert Of Bruges And The Historiography Of Medieval Flanders
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Author : Jeff Rider
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2009-11
Galbert Of Bruges And The Historiography Of Medieval Flanders written by Jeff Rider and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Edited by two of the world's most prominent specialists on Galbert today, Jeff Rider and Alan V. Murray, this book brings together essays by established scholars who have been largely responsible for the radical changes in the understanding of Galbert and his work that have occurred over the last thirty years and essays by younger scholars.
The Rise And Fall Of Imperial China
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Author : Yuhua Wang
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-11
The Rise And Fall Of Imperial China written by Yuhua Wang and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with Political Science categories.
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China’s history can help us better understand state building. Wang argues that Chinese rulers faced a fundamental trade-off that he calls the sovereign’s dilemma: a coherent elite that could collectively strengthen the state could also overthrow the ruler. This dilemma emerged because strengthening state capacity and keeping rulers in power for longer required different social networks in which central elites were embedded. Wang examines how these social networks shaped the Chinese state, and vice versa, and he looks at how the ruler’s pursuit of power by fragmenting the elites became the final culprit for China’s fall. Drawing on more than a thousand years of Chinese history, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China highlights the role of elite social relations in influencing the trajectories of state development.
The Rise And Fall Of Merry England
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Author : Ronald Hutton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
The Rise And Fall Of Merry England written by Ronald Hutton and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Calendar categories.
Highly readable and entertaining, Ronald Hutton's acclaimed work is the first comprehensive account of the religious and secular rituals of late medieval and early modern England.