Publisher-Fontana/Collins-British Monarchy Series paperback

The Saxon and Norman Kings (British Monarchy Series)

History

BROOKE, Christopher

Europe

Fontana

From Alfred to Henry III: 871-1272

Thomas Nelson and Sons, Limited

From Alfred to Henry III 871-1272

Thomas Nelson & Sons

From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272 is the second volume of the "Norton Library History of England."
The 400 years covered by this volume saw two Danish invasions and the Norman Conquest of England. Each conquest carried with it extensive political and social changes. Alfred began the work of creating a unified kingdom out of the shambles of the smaller kingdoms that had fallen under Viking raids. The ninth and tenth centuries saw the settlement of the Danes and the eleventh the emergence of a strong monarchy under the Danish King Cnut. "With the English kingdom grew up the first semblance of national institutions," writes Professor Brooks--institutions of central and local government which made the English monarchy among the most mature in the Europe of its time.... These established institutions were not destroyed by the Normans; they adapted and developed them.
Although England had had close ties with the continent before the Conquest, after 1066 English cultural and social life was greatly enriched through the French influence. During this time the Church was finding new inspiration in monastic and papal reform and a great intellectual revival culminated in the creation of universities. Professor Brooke describes all the cultural and political developments of these years and shows how the reign of Henry III ushered in a "great age of art and architecture" and a "new attitude to government," which began to work by consent of the governed.

From Alfred to Henry III; 871-1272

Arts & Photography

W.W.Norton&Company

Includes the origins of monasticism and chapters on the formation of the western monastic traditional. Illustrated.

The monastic world, 1000-1300

Swaan, Wim

Random House]

Popular Religion in the Middle Ages: Western Europe 1000-1300

Brooke, Rosalind

Religion & Spirituality

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The Structure of Medieval Society (Library of Medieval Civilization)

The structure of medieval society (Library of medieval civilization)

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (September 27, 1971)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0500570043
ISBN-13: 978-0500570043

Thames and Hudson

Tours monasteries in all parts of the world and traces the development of the monastic ideal from Saint Anthony to contemporary theologians

Monasteries Of The World (The Rise And Development Of The Monastic Tradition)

Crescent Books

obscure but important period of our early hiistory

Celt and Saxon: Studies in the Early British Border

Taylor, Joan

Jackson, Kenneth

Taylor, Harold

Chadwick, Nora K.

Colgrave, Bertram

Dickins, Bruce

Hunter Blair, Peter

Cambridge University Press

Traces the history of the two British universities, describes their architecture, and looks at changes in the two towns

Oxford and Cambridge

HIGHFIELD, Roger

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