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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826333103321

Titolo

The Medieval state : essays presented to James Campbell / / edited by J.R. Maddicott and D.M. Palliser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio, : Hambledon Press, 2000

ISBN

1-282-30998-6

9786612309984

0-8264-4349-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellJames <1935->

MaddicottJohn Robert

PalliserD. M <1939-> (David Michael)

Disciplina

909.1

Soggetti

Middle Ages

State, The

Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066

Great Britain History Medieval period, 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Contributors; James Campbell as Historian; James Campbell as Tutor; 'Off To Do Good': James Campbell as Colleague; Bibliography of James Campbell; 1 Peculiaris Patronus Noster: The Saint as Patron of the State in the Early Middle Ages; 2 Two Frontier States: Northumbria and Wessex, c. 650-750; 3 The Construction of the Early Scottish State; 4 Observations upon a Scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, the Battle of Hastings and the Military System of the Late Anglo-Saxon State; 5 Eadmer, his Archbishops and the English State; 6 Henry I and Counsel

7 Towns and the English State, 1066-15008 A Twelfth-Century View of the Spanish Past; 9 Anti-Semitism and the Medieval English State; 10 From Rex Wallie to Princeps Wallie: Charters and State Formation in Thirteenth-Century Wales; 11 The English State and the Plantagenet Empire, 1259-1360: A Fiscal Perspective; 12 Politics, Sanctity and the Breton State: The Case of the Blessed Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany (d. 1364); 13 The Empire of Tamerlane: An Unsuccessful Re-Run of the



Mongol Empire?; 14 Brittany and the French Crown: The Legacy of the English Attack upon FougeĢ€res (1449); Index

Sommario/riassunto

James Campbell's work has established the impressive powers of the Anglo-Saxon state, with its ability to impose laws, raise revenue, undertake major works and consult the interests and wishes of its subjects. This collection of essays looks at the state and its successors from a number of angles.