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  • Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands

    Exile and Redemption in Kampen

    by Edda Frankot ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book analyses the practice of banishment and what it can tell us about the values of late medieval society concerning morally acceptable behaviour. It focuses on the Dutch town of Kampen and considers the exclusion of offenders through banishment and the redemption of individuals after their exile. Banishment was a common punishment in late medieval Europe, especially for sexual ... Read more

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  • Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe

    Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650

    Series series Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
    Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c. 1350 to c. 1650.In these essays, the contributors seek to understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by focusing ... Read more

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    England's response to the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568–1648) has been studied hitherto mainly in terms of government policy, yet the Dutch struggle with Habsburg Spain affected a much wider community than just the English political elite. It attracted attention across Britain and drew not just statesmen and diplomats but also soldiers, merchants, religious refugees, journalists, travellers and ... Read more

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  • Ireland: 1641

    Contexts and reactions

    Series series Studies in Early Modern Irish History
    The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern Irish and British history. Its divisive legacy, based primarily on the sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a general massacre of Protestant settlers, is still evident in Ireland today. Indeed, the 1641 ‘massacres’, like the battles at the Boyne (1690) and Somme (1916), played a key role in creating and ... Read more

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  • Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law

    Essays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries

    Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays ... Read more

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  • Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

    The Southern English Kingdoms, 757–865

    by Rory Naismith ...
    Series Book 80 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This groundbreaking study of coinage in early medieval England is the first to take account of the very significant additions to the corpus of southern English coins discovered in recent years and to situate this evidence within the wider historical context of Anglo-Saxon England and its continental neighbours. Its nine chapters integrate historical and numismatic research to explore who made ... Read more

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  • Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871–978

    Assemblies and the State in the Early Middle Ages

    by Levi Roach ...
    Series Book 92 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This engaging study focuses on the role of assemblies in later Anglo-Saxon politics, challenging and nuancing existing models of the late Anglo-Saxon state. Its ten chapters investigate both traditional constitutional aspects of assemblies - who attended these events, where and when they met, and what business they conducted - and the symbolic and representational nature of these gatherings. Levi ... Read more

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  • The Founding of the Dutch Republic

    War, Finance, and Politics in Holland, 1572-1588

    by James Tracy ...
    In 1572, towns in the province of Holland, led by William of Orange, rebelled against the government of the Habsburg Netherlands. The story of the Dutch Revolt is usually told in terms of fractious provinces that frustrated Orange's efforts to formulate a coherent programme. In this book James D. Tracy argues that there was a coherent strategy for the war, but that it was set by the towns of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Medieval Primary Sources

    Using Historical Sources to Discover Medieval Europe

    Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Medieval society created many kinds of records and written material which differ considerably, giving us such sources as last wills, sermons, manorial accounts, or royal biographies. Primary sources are an exciting way for students to engage with the past and draw their own ideas about life in the medieval period.Understanding Medieval Primary Sources is a collection of essays that will introduce ... Read more

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  • The Invention of News

    How the World Came to Know About Itself

    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Read more

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  • Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore'

    An Eleventh-Century Scottish King

    by Neil McGuigan ...
    Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the YearThe legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as ‘Malcolm Canmore’, is often held to epitomise Scotland’s ‘ancient Gaelic kings’. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers, and their legitimacy and status were far from secure at the beginning of his rule. Máel Coluim’s long reign from 1058 until 1093 coincided with ... Read more

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