Rebel Barons

Rebel Barons
Title Rebel Barons PDF eBook
Author Luke Sunderland
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 319
Release 2017
Genre History
ISBN 0198788487

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Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice, but were always potential tyrants, who usurped power and 'stole' through taxation. Rebel Barons writes the history of this ambivalence, which was especially acute in England, France, and Italy in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, when the modern ideology of sovereignty, arguing for monopolies on justice and the legitimate use of violence, was developed. Sovereign powers asserted themselves militarily and economically provoking complex phenomena of resistance by aristocrats. This volume argues that the chansons de geste, the key genre for disseminating models of violent noble opposition to sovereigns, offer a powerful way of understanding acts of resistance. Traditionally seen as France's epic literary monuments - the Chanson de Roland is often presented as foundational of French literature - chansons de geste in fact come from areas antagonistic to France, such as Burgundy, England, Flanders, Occitania, and Italy, where they were reworked repeatedly from the twelfth century to the fifteenth and recast into prose and chronicle forms. Rebel baron narratives were the principal vehicle for aristocratic concerns about tyranny, for models of violent opposition to sovereigns and for fantasies of escape from the Carolingian world via crusade and Oriental adventures. Rebel Barons reads this corpus across its full range of historical and geographical relevance, and through changes in form, as well as placing it in dialogue with medieval political theory, to bring out the contributions of literary texts to political debates. Revealing the widespread and long-lived importance of these anti-royalist works supporting regional aristocratic rights to feud and revolt, Rebel Barons reshapes our knowledge of reactions to changing political realities at a crux period in European history.

Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in

Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in
Title Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 934
Release 1907
Genre Harness racing
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United States Trotting Association Register

United States Trotting Association Register
Title United States Trotting Association Register PDF eBook
Author United States Trotting Association
Publisher
Pages 1104
Release 1911
Genre Horses
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Wallace's American Trotting Register ...

Wallace's American Trotting Register ...
Title Wallace's American Trotting Register ... PDF eBook
Author John Hankins Wallace
Publisher
Pages 1022
Release 1913
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Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in ...

Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in ...
Title Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in ... PDF eBook
Author John Hankins Wallace
Publisher
Pages 992
Release 1908
Genre Horse racing
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Wallace's Year Book of Trotting and Pacing

Wallace's Year Book of Trotting and Pacing
Title Wallace's Year Book of Trotting and Pacing PDF eBook
Author United States Trotting Association
Publisher
Pages 778
Release 1918
Genre Horse racing
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Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Ireland Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office ....

Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Ireland Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office ....
Title Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Ireland Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office .... PDF eBook
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Pages 884
Release 1867
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