Gothic Kings Of Britain

Author : Philip J. Potter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645248X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic Kings of Britain written by Philip J. Potter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical history tells the story of 31 Gothic monarchs who fought in the crusades, enforced their feudal rights throughout the kingdom, sponsored the growth of representative government through a parliament, and ultimately created a military power that would dominate European affairs. In the process, the narrative recaptures the dramatic and chaotic span of the years between 1000 and 1400, when the great European monarchies were still in their formative stages. The book discusses the lives of English and Scottish kings in the context of their eras, discussing their achievements and failures, their relations with the Church and foreign powers, and their overall influence on the suppression of the nobility and the development of the monarchy as the primary governing institution of both Scotland and England.

Author : Nick Groom
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191642398
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction written by Nick Groom and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient tribe who sacked Rome to the alternative subculture of the present day. This unique Very Short Introduction reveals that the Gothic has predominantly been a way of understanding and responding to the past. Time after time, the Gothic has been invoked in order to reveal what lies behind conventional history. It is a way of disclosing secrets, whether in the constitutional politics of seventeenth-century England or the racial politics of the United States. While contexts change, the Gothic perpetually regards the past with fascination, both yearning and horrified. It reminds us that neither societies nor individuals can escape the consequences of their actions. The anatomy of the Gothic is richly complex and perversely contradictory, and so the thirteen chapters here range deliberately widely. This is the first time that the entire story of the Gothic has been written as a continuous history: from the historians of late antiquity to the gardens of Georgian England, from the mediaeval cult of the macabre to German Expressionist cinema, from Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy to American consumer society, from folk ballads to vampires, from the past to the present. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Elizabeth M. Hallam
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555841713
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Gothic Kings written by Elizabeth M. Hallam and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chroniclers of the Middle Ages provide the foundations of all we know about the period. Seldom even-tempered or fair, inveterate gossips, and lovers of scandal, they reveal firsthand the men and women who built our civilization. Full-color illustrations.

Author : Wawrzyniec Kowalski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004447636
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kings of the Slavs written by Wawrzyniec Kowalski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja is a mysterious narrative source covering the Slavic presence on the Adriatic coast and its hinterland. This study offers a new interpretation of the text, based on the recognition of the figures of model rulers.

Author : Kamilla Elliott
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408643
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction written by Kamilla Elliott and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examples from British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show how portraits became a new mode of identity for the middle class. Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott, our current practices of “picture identification” (driver’s licenses, passports, and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates. Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction examines ways writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and C. R. Maturin as well as artists, historians, politicians, and periodical authors dealt with changes in how social identities were understood and valued in British culture—specifically, who was represented by portraits and how they were represented as they vied for social power. Elliott investigates multiple aspects of picture identification: its politics, epistemologies, semiotics, and aesthetics, and the desires and phobias that it produces. Her extensive research not only covers Gothic literature’s best-known and most studied texts but also engages with more than 100 Gothic works in total, expanding knowledge of first-wave Gothic fiction as well as opening new windows into familiar work.

Author : HENRY BRADLEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE STORY OF THE GOTHS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE GOTHIC DOMINION IN SPAIN written by HENRY BRADLEY and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herwig Wolfram
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520069831
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Goths written by Herwig Wolfram and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.

Author : Samuel Kliger
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goths in England written by Samuel Kliger and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. N. Hillgarth
Publisher : Studies and Texts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visigoths in History and Legend written by J. N. Hillgarth and published by Studies and Texts. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores one of the central myths of Spain: the idea that Spanish culture arose from that of the Visigoths. It begins with a sketch of Visigothic history, then proceeds to explore attitudes towards the Goths and legends and myths that developed around them from late antiquity to the twentieth century; such ideas proved influential among those who saw the Goths as their spiritual, if not literal, ancestors. The focus is on the myth of the Goths as expressed in literature of a broadly historical nature; many authors have played a significant role in forming and shaping this myth, and thus in shaping the mentality of their contemporaries and descendants. The Gothic myth was of great use to the different monarchies that succeeded the Goths after the Arabic invasion of 711. Visigothic kings were adopted as models by one age after another, from the rudimentary kingdom of Asturias in the ninth century to the world-monarchy of Spain under the Catholic Kings and the Habsburgs. Over the centuries, adroit 'improvements' on history and even outright fabrications influenced the creation of an idealized, epic past to which Spaniards look even today. This study of the evolution and persistence of the myth of Spain's Gothic roots is essential reading for scholars of Spanish history.

Author : John Gillingham
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 019285402X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction written by John Gillingham and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of identity in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Yet this was an age, too, of growing definition of Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural tradition. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.