Poole A. L. (Former Fellow Former Fellow St John's College Oxford) - From Domesday Book To Magna Carta 1087 - 1216 - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This illuminating book provides an account of a century and a half of English medieval history beginning with the compilation of the Domesday Book and culminating in the issue of the Magna Carta and the subsequent civil war. A. L. Poole assesses the social and economic background to the period the position of the monarchy progress in education church reform and also studies the twelfth - century renaissance in literature and art providing a full and detailed study of everyday life in English towns and country in medieval England. 'a model of its kind has the unusual merit of being at once comprehensive and uniformly satisfying TES 'an important and useful book written and well written by a scholar of great learning and integrity Guardian 'a volume that all medievalists will admire and use will remain alike for historians and for the general reader an indispensable and adequate possession. Tablet 'the most brilliant and the most exciting of the medieval centuries to be judged by the highest standards TLS
Title: From Domesday Book To Magna Carta 1087 - 1216
Author(s): Poole A. L. (Former Fellow Former Fellow St John's College Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192852878
Pages: 560 Pages, 4 Maps
Publication Date: 9/16/1993
Series: Oxford History of England
Category: Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500