Ralph Henry Carless Davies

King Stephen

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9780582040007
• ISBN-10: 0582040000
• Artikelnr.: 35656298

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