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Michael Brown - Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples & Politics in the British Isles 1280-1460 (Medieval World) - 9781405840590 - V9781405840590
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Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples & Politics in the British Isles 1280-1460 (Medieval World)

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Description for Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples & Politics in the British Isles 1280-1460 (Medieval World) Paperback. This textbook brings new research and historiography to students of medieval history, and is suitable for undergraduate history students new to the period, and those returning to it. Series: The Medieval World. Num Pages: 344 pages, maps, geneal. tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.

In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the English. However by 1400 Britain and Ireland were divided between the warring kings of England and Scotland, and peoples still starkly defined by race and nation. Why did the apparent trends towards a single royal ruler, a single elite and a common Anglicised world stop so abruptly after 1300? And what did the resulting pattern of distinct nations and extensive borderlands contribute to the longer-term history of the British Isles?

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- the changing nature of kingship and sovereignty and their links to wars of conquest

- developing ideas of community and identity

- key shifts in the nature of aristocratic societies across the isles

- the European context, particularly the roots and course of the Hundred Years War

This is essential reading for undergraduates studying the history of late Medieval Britain or Europe, but will also be of great interest for anyone who wishes to understand the continuing legacy of the late medieval period in Britain.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
The Medieval World
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405840590
SKU
V9781405840590
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Michael Brown
Michael Brown is Reader in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He has previously worked at the University of Aberystwyth, University College Dublin and the University of Aberdeen. Previous books include James I (1994), The Black Douglases (1998), The Wars of Scotland 1214-1371 (2004) and Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles 1307-1323 (2008).

Reviews for Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples & Politics in the British Isles 1280-1460 (Medieval World)
'This is a wide-ranging text drawing together, via a scholarly interdisciplinary apparatus, a wealth of primary and secondary sources...deriving from the Continent, Britain, and Ireland. Using chronicles, state documents, parliamentary records, and diplomatic correspondence, Brown provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the volatile and often turbulent nature of sovereignty...Disunited Kingdoms is a significant addition to the promising historiography encompassing ... Read more

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