Peter Speed's volume series of medieval sources in English translation includes a wide variety of readings from Britain and the Continent is richly illustrated and provides an ideal introduction to classic sources and new trends in medieval studies for the student and the general reader alike. Chapter topics include: the "three orders"; the first and second feudal ages; the king; the royal court; feudalism in Spain; Richard II of England, 1377-1399; chivalry; jousting, hunting and the duel; relations between the sexes; the household; knights and archers; sieges; Henry V in France, 1415-1422; the new warfare; the victims of war; and the peacemakers. 164 readings include chronicles, histories, documents, treatises, household and manorial accounts, letters, poetry, romances. Preface, introduction, bibliography, and index. 63 illustrations, 5 maps, 5 plans.
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"Peter Speed has edited an outstanding trilogy for students and scholars." -- Midwest Book Review, Spring 1998
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Companion volumes are Those Who Prayed and Those Who Worked. The entire series totals 840 pages and includes 626 readings, 268 illustrations, detailed bibliographies and indexes.
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IN HIS ADMIRABLE BOOK, The Three Orders, the French historian Georges Duby states that "thirty or forty successive generations have imagined social perfection in the form of trifunctionality." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black loaves, knight service, new warfare, feudal levy, feudal age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Black Prince, King Henry, John of Gaunt, Hundred Years War, Fine Roll, Holy Church, Jean de Marmoutier, Tower of London, Chronicles of the Counts of Anjou, John the Fearless, King Edward, Lord Berkeley, Muton Bonys, Roman Empire, Thomas of Walsingham, Bishop Vivas, France Charles, Gerald of Wales, Iberian Peninsula, John Page, Peace of God, Rolls of Parliament New!
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IN HIS ADMIRABLE BOOK, The Three Orders, the French historian Georges Duby states that "thirty or forty successive generations have imagined social perfection in the form of trifunctionality." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black loaves, knight service, new warfare, feudal levy, feudal age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Black Prince, King Henry, John of Gaunt, Hundred Years War, Fine Roll, Holy Church, Jean de Marmoutier, Tower of London, Chronicles of the Counts of Anjou, John the Fearless, King Edward, Lord Berkeley, Muton Bonys, Roman Empire, Thomas of Walsingham, Bishop Vivas, France Charles, Gerald of Wales, Iberian Peninsula, John Page, Peace of God, Rolls of Parliament New!
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- Canterbury Tales (Barron's Book Notes) by Chaucer on page 98, and Back Matter
- Medieval Women (Canto) by Eileen Power in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The History of Feudalism by David Herlihy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics) by Jean de Joinville in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Barbarossa in Italy by Thomas Carson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Timeline by Michael Crichton in Back Matter
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