The English in the Twelfth Century: Imperialism, National Identity and Political Values - Softcover

Gillingham, John B

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ISBN 10: 1843834251 ISBN 13: 9781843834250

Verlag: Boydell Press, 2008

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Important and stimulating collection. HISTORY

Reviewing has been a most agreeable assignment. His essays...are rich in novel interpretaions and likely to have an enduring relevance... This volume sustains an enviable excellence. The arguments are carefully nuanced yet robust and thought-provoking; a formidable range of sources is brought under tranchant consideration; there is a marvellous feel for apt and arresting quotations; and the writing is as pellucid as it is dynamic. Vintage John Gillingham. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Individually, the essays are uniformly excellent.... Collecting these essays reminds us of their originality and importance, but also constitutes an essential resource for teaching and research. WAR IN HISTORY

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Six of the greatest twelfth-century historians - William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Gaimar, Roger of Howden, and Gerald of Wales - are analysed in this collection of essays, focusing on their attitudes to three inter-related aspects of English history. The first theme is the rise of the new and condescending perception which regarded the Irish, Scots and Welsh as barbarians; set against the background of socio-economic and cultural change in England, it is argued that this imperialist perception created a fundamental divide in the history of the British Isles, one to which Geoffrey of Monmouth responded immediately and brilliantly. The second theme treats chivalry not as a mere gloss upon the brutal realities of life, but as an important development in political morality; and it reconsiders some of the old questions associated with chivalric values and knightly obligations - home-grown products or imports from France? The third theme is the emergence of a new sense of Englishness after the traumas of the Norman Conquest, looking at the English invasion of Ireland and the making of English history. JOHN GILLINGHAM is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, London School of Economics.

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• Verlag: Boydell Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1843834251
• ISBN 13: 9781843834250
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320