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The discovery of islands : essays in British history
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ISBN: 052161645X 0521850959 9780521616454 9780521850957 9780511614873 0511130708 9780511130700 0511130236 0511128541 9780511128547 0511129173 9780511129179 9780511130236 051161487X 1280225661 9781280225666 1107153840 0511200366 051130076X Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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The Discovery of Islands consists of a series of linked essays in British history, written by one of the world's leading historians of political thought and published over the past three decades. Its purpose is to present British history as that of several nations interacting with - and sometimes seceding from - an imperial state. The commentary presents this history as that of an archipelago, expanding across oceans to the Antipodes. Both New Zealand history and the author's New Zealand heritage inform this vision, presenting British history as oceanic and global, complementing (and occasionally criticising) the presentation of that history as European. Professor Pocock's interpretation of British history has been hugely influential in recent years, making The Discovery of Islands a resource of immense value for historians of Britain and the world.

A social history of England, 1200-1500
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ISBN: 0521789540 0521783453 9780521783453 9780521789547 9781139167154 9780511648595 0511648596 0511245092 9780511245091 0511245610 9780511245619 1139167154 1107158591 9781107158597 9786612395048 6612395044 0511644647 9780511644641 1282395041 9781282395046 0511557124 9780511557125 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York Cambridge University Press

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What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English life and society in the period 1200-1500. Opening with a survey of historiographical and demographic debates, the book then explores the central themes of later medieval society, including the social hierarchy, life in towns and the countryside, religious belief, and forms of individual and collective identity. Clustered around these themes a series of authoritative essays develop our understanding of other important social and cultural features of the period, including the experience of war, work, law and order, youth and old age, ritual, travel and transport, and the development of writing and reading. Written in an accessible and engaging manner by an international team of leading scholars, this book is indispensable both as an introduction for students and as a resource for specialists.

The Oxford companion to Scottish history
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ISBN: 0198610246 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press,

Liens personnels, réseaux, solidarités en France et dans les îles britanniques (XIe-XXe siecle) = Personal links, networks and solidarities in France and the British Isles (11th-20th century) : actes de la table ronde organisée par le GDR 2136 et l'Université de Glasgow (10-11 mai 2002)
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ISSN: 02926679 ISBN: 285944534X 9782859445348 9791035104306 Year: 2006 Volume: 30 Publisher: Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne,

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Rivalités et conflits ont laissé une empreinte profonde sur l’histoire des relations entre la France et les îles Britanniques et occupent encore une place considérable dans l’historiographie. L’étude des liens personnels, des réseaux et des solidarités, dans un contexte marqué par l’influence des sciences sociales, permet peut-être d’ouvrir l’horizon sur d’autres perspectives, et de reconstituer, entre ces deux espaces, des échanges que la documentation ne laisse pas toujours directement appréhender. Grâce aux travaux comparatistes, elle petit aussi contribuer à renouveler la compréhension de phénomènes longtemps perçus de manière isolée par les écoles historiques française et britannique. La table ronde organisée par le Groupe de recherche 2136 du CNRS « France-îles Britanniques » en mai 2002 à l’université de Glasgow, s’est précisément donné ce thème de réflexion pour objet : les seize communications d’historiens français et britanniques réunies dans ce volume abordent des notions qui vont de l’individu à la parenté en passant par l’amitié, le voisinage, la cour, l’entourage noble, 1’« affinité », la clientèle, le cercle littéraire, et cela à partir de sources d’une extrême diversité - actes de la pratique, correspondance, héraldique, images, récits, journaux intimes. Le choix délibéré d’un temps long, du Moyen Âge au XXe siècle, permet aussi de confronter les évolutions sociales comme des méthodes historiographiques souvent très différentes. Les recours à des grilles de lecture variées, qu’il s’agisse de la méthode de la network analysis ou de la prosopographie, fait surgir des liens souvent discrets, ou bien activés dans des circonstances très spécifiques, comme la succession, et permet de mieux cerner le contexte de développements connus par ailleurs, comme l’invention scientifique ou la circulation des idées politiques. Ln dernier ressort, c’est peut-être au cœur d’un faisceau d’approches et d’expériences diverses que la notion de réseau peut se révéler la…

The spoken word : oral culture in Britain 1500-1850
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ISBN: 0719057477 0719057469 9786610733934 1847790593 1280733934 1423706315 9781526137876 9781423706311 9781847790590 9781280733932 6610733937 1526137879 9780719057465 9780719057472 Year: 2002 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester university press,

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Human beings have developed a superabundance of ways of communicating with each other. Some, such as writing, are several millennia old. This book focuses on the relationship between speech and writing both within a single language, Welsh, and between two languages, Welsh and English. It demonstrates that the eighteenth-century Scottish clergy used the popular medium of Gaelic in oral and written form to advance the Gospel. The experience of literacy in early modern Wales was often an expression of legal and religious authority reinforced by the spoken word. This included the hearing of proclamations and other black-letter texts publicly read. Literate Protestant clergymen governed and shaped the Gaelic culture by acting as the bridge-builders between oral and literary traditions, and as arbiters of literary taste and the providers of reading material for newly literate people.


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On foot to Canterbury : a son's pilgrimage
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ISBN: 1772125911 1772125903 Year: 2021 Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press,

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Ken Haigh explores the historical and literary landscape of the Pilgrims' Way in southern England.

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