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The Southampton Book of Days
The History Press 2012; US$ 7.28Variously called 'The Gateway to England' or 'The Gateway to the World', Southampton is a uniquely historic city. For the first time, a day by day account is presented, providing a kaleidoscope of events. Traitors, murderers, Kings and Queens, fugitives, pirates and inventors have all played their part in the rich tapestry of Southampton's history.... more...
The Northern Conquest
Andrews UK 2007; US$ 15.99Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conquest period. This book aims to offer an alternative approach by presenting a history of the Viking Age which considers the whole... more...
The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions 'Post Mortem'
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00The Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) at the National Archives have been described as the single most important source for the study of landed society in later medieval England. Inquisitions were local enquiries into the lands held by people of some status, in order to discover whatever income and rights were due to the crown on their death, and provide... more...
Fourteenth Century England VII
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 99.00This collection represents the fruits of new research, by both established and young scholars, on the politics, society and culture of England and its dependencies in the fourteenth century. Drawing on a diverse range of documentary, literary and material evidence, the studies offer a range of methods, from micro-history and prosopography to the study... more...
Thirteenth Century England XIII
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 120.00Additional editors: Karen Stöber, Björn Weiler. The articles collected here bear witness to the continued and wide interest in England and its neighbours in the 'long' thirteenth century. The volume includes papers on the high politics of the thirteenth century, international relations, the administrative and governmental structures... more...
Edward III and the War at Sea
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 99.00The book discusses tactics and strategy, outlines the considerable involvement of Edward III himself, recounts the deeds [and misdeeds] of various admirals, and provides extensive detail on how the navy was organised, how ships were impressed, and what sort of ships the "king's ships" were. more...
Britannia - The Failed State
The History Press 2012; US$ 27.69Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman and early medieval periods. This groundbreaking new study traces the history of British tribes and British tribal rivalries form the pre-Roman period, through the Roman period and into the post-Roman period.... more...
Anglo-Norman Studies 33
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 80.00The latest volume of Battle Conference proceedings emphasizes the European range and interdisciplinarity of the series. It opens with Anne Duggan's R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture for 2010, on the effects of Pope Alexander III's so-called "marriage legislation" in England. Norman history is covered by chapters on the detailed account... more...
Thomas Becket and his Biographers
Boydell & Brewer 2006; US$ 90.00Our major sources for the life and death of Thomas Becket are rigorously examined in this major new book. more...
Anglo-Norman Studies 26
Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 90.00The sense of a group of scholars sharing work in progress comes over on numerous occasions... a series which is a model of its kind. EDMUND KING, HISTORY more...









