The Reign of King Stephen
Title | The Reign of King Stephen PDF eBook |
Author | David Crouch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317892976 |
At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.
The Reign of King Stephen
Title | The Reign of King Stephen PDF eBook |
Author | David Crouch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138148857 |
At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.
King Stephen
Title | King Stephen PDF eBook |
Author | R. H. C. Davis |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2022-08-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520372204 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
King Stephen
Title | King Stephen PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Henry Carless Davies |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317900529 |
This well-known text, the standard account of the subject, is essential reading for students and scholars of the Norman period from undergraduate level upwards, and was hailed on first publication as: " a landmark in twelfth-century studies." Written in the form of a biography this completely revised and updated edition discusses the significant social, governmental and religious developments as they arose in the course of the narrative.
King Stephen
Title | King Stephen PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund King |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2011-01-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300170106 |
This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths and weaknesses of the monarch. Keeping Stephen at the forefront of his account, the author also chronicles the activities of key family members and associates whose loyal support sustained Stephen's kingship. In 1135 the popular Stephen was elected king against the claims of the empress Matilda and her sons. But by 1153, Stephen had lost control over Normandy and other important regions, England had lost prestige, and the weakened king was forced to cede his family's right to succession. A rich narrative covering the drama of a tumultuous reign, this book focuses well-deserved attention on a king who lost control of his destiny.
The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154
Title | The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 PDF eBook |
Author | David Crouch |
Publisher | Longman Publishing Group |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
This text provides a biography of King Stephen (1134-54), the last Norman monarch whose reign was key in English history as well as the subject of much controversial assessment.
Stephen and Matilda's Civil War
Title | Stephen and Matilda's Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Lewis |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2020-01-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526718359 |
The story of the twelfth-century rivalry for the throne between the daughter and the nephew of Henry I—a battle that tore England apart for over a decade. The Anarchy was the first civil war in post-Conquest England, enduring throughout the reign of King Stephen between 1135 and 1154. It ultimately brought about the end of the Norman dynasty and the birth of the mighty Plantagenet kings. When Henry I died having lost his only legitimate son in a shipwreck, his barons had sworn to recognize his daughter Matilda, widow of the Holy Roman Emperor, as his heir, and remarried her to Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. But when she was slow to move to England upon her father’s death, Henry’s favorite nephew, Stephen of Blois, rushed to have himself crowned, much as Henry himself had done on the death of his brother William Rufus. Supported by his brother Henry, Bishop of Winchester, Stephen made a promising start, but Matilda would not give up her birthright and tried to hold the English barons to their oaths. The result was more than a decade of civil war that saw England split apart. Empress Matilda is often remembered as aloof and high-handed, Stephen as ineffective and indecisive. By following both sides of the dispute and seeking to understand their actions and motivations, Matthew Lewis aims to reach a more rounded understanding of this crucial period of English history—and ask to what extent there really was anarchy.