Free Download The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England By Nicholas J. Higham; Martin J. Ryan
2010 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 1843835827 | PDF | 96 MB
Traditional opinion has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting down woodland, and bringing with them the practice of open field agriculture, and establishing villages. Whilst recent scholarship has proved this simplistic picture wanting, it has also raised many questions about the nature of landscape development at the time, the changing nature of systems of land management, and strategies for settlement. The papers here seek to shed new light on these complex issues. Taking a variety of different approaches, and with topics ranging from the impact of coppicing to medieval field systems, from the representation of the landscape in manuscripts to cereal production and the type of bread the population preferred, they offer striking new approaches to the central issues of landscape change across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England, a period surely foundational to the rural landscape of today.NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester; MARTIN J. RYAN lectures in Medieval History at the University of Manchester.Contributors: Nicholas J. Higham, Christopher Grocock, Stephen Rippon, Stuart Brookes, Carenza Lewis, Susan Oosthuizen, Tom Williamson, Catherine Karkov, David Hill, Debby Banham, Richard Hoggett, Peter Murphy.

Free Download The Great Naval Race : Anglo-German naval rivalry 1900-1914 (Peter Padfield Naval History) by Peter Padfield
English | January 20, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08TMHMYDH | 452 pages | EPUB | 0.52 Mb
This is the dramatic story of the deadly competition in dreadnought battleship construction between Great Britain and Imperial Germany in the years before the First World War. It is a story of two great Empires set on a collision course, climaxing in the Armageddon of 1914.

Free Download Inderjeet Parmar, "Special Interests, the State and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1939-1945 "
English | ISBN: 1032109467 | 2021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 235 KB
This book, first published in 1995, aims to enhance our understanding of the Anglo-American alliance by examining the origins of the alliance during the Second World War. It presents a case study of how power is distributed in British society, and who makes the political decisions that decisively shape the society and world in which we live.

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by Emma Kay;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1982186534 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 43.53 MB

Free Download James Cook, "The Cyclic Mass: Anglo-Continental Exchange in the Fifteenth Century"
English | 2019 | pages: 163 | ISBN: 1138487740, 0367661608 | PDF | 1,8 mb
England in the fifteenth century was the cradle of much that would have a profound impact on European music for the next several hundred years. Perhaps the greatest such development was the cyclic cantus firmus Mass, and scholarly attention has therefore often been drawn to identifying potentially English examples within the many anonymous Mass cycles that survive in continental sources. Nonetheless, to understand English music in this period is to understand it within a changing nexus of two-way cultural exchange with the continent, and the genre of the Mass cycle is very much at the forefront of this. Indeed, the question of 'what is English' cannot truly be answered without also answering the question of 'what is continental'. This book seeks, initially, to answer both of these questions. Perhaps more importantly, it argues that a number of the works that have induced the most scholarly debate are best seen through the lens of intensive and long-term cultural exchange and that the great binary divide of provenance can, in many cases, productively be broken down. A great many of these works, though often written on the continent, can, it seems, only be understood in relation to English practice - a practice which has had, and will continue to have, major importance in the ongoing history of European Art Music.

Free Download Mercia: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Central England By Sarah Zaluckyj
2002 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1873827628 | PDF | 57 MB
With a chapter on Offa's Dyke by Marge Feryok and other contributions by John Zaluckyj.Of the three great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain before the advent of 'England' - Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex - Mercia has long deserved its own history. Northumbria had Bede, Wessex had the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, but Mercia has largely to be explored through the eyes of others.This book attempts to redress this gap. Using the fragmentary chronicles that refer to the kingdom, inferring from lost sources utilized by later medieval chroniclers, extracting information from the charters, letters and other documents of the period that have survived and incorporating the growing amount of information gained from archaeological excavations carried out over many years across the breadth of Mercia, this book provides a study of how the kingdom emerged from the Dark Ages in the late 6th and early 7th centuries and grew into a power to be reckoned with by the popes in Rome and the Carolingian empire from the late 8th century, a position of strength from which it subsequently declined.At its greatest Mercia stretched from the Humber in the north to south of the Thames. Its remit ran from the Welsh borders to East Anglia. London was its main port, Tamworth its 'capital', and many of the towns that subsequently became county towns were developed. Mercia became recognized for its learning and for its industry, arguably the most important commodity of which was salt. It gained much of its central revenue from trade through the port of London and the extensive saltworks at Droitwich. Councils and synods were held at venues throughout the kingdom, often in large timber halls. Monasteries were founded with great enthusiasm, royal saints and their cults blossomed, trade and coinage developed in periods of stability.

Free Download Crime and Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England By Andrew Rabin
2020 | 75 Pages | ISBN: 1108932037 | PDF | 5 MB
Arguably, more legal texts survive from pre-Conquest England than from any other early medieval European community. The corpus includes roughly seventy royal law-codes, to which can be added well over a thousand charters, writs, and wills, as well as numerous political tracts, formularies, rituals, and homilies derived from legal sources. These texts offer valuable insight into early English concepts of royal authority and political identity. They reveal both the capacities and limits of the king's regulatory power, and in so doing, provide crucial evidence for the process by which disparate kingdoms gradually merged to become a unified English state. More broadly, pre-Norman legal texts shed light on the various ways in which cultural norms were established, enforced, and, in many cases, challenged. And perhaps most importantly, they provide unparalleled insight into the experiences of Anglo-Saxon England's diverse inhabitants, both those who enforced the law and those subject to it.

Free Download Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World: Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister By Donald F. Fleming; Janet M. Pope
2007 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1843832933 | PDF | 6 MB
It is a testament to C. Warren Hollister's ongoing influence that the reign of Henry I, until his work on the period relatively neglected, is now a vibrant field of inquiry - to which this collection, a special volume of the Haskins Society Journal dedicated to his memory, makes a significant contribution. Its distinguished contributors, many former Hollister students, cover a wide range of areas: royal biography; political history, including Church-State relations and relations with neighbors such as Maine and Ireland as well as the English people Henry ruled; administrative history, including fiscal management; and prosopography, especially of the major developments in the Anglo-Norman aristocracy under Henry's reign. This volume thus continues and extends Hollister's scholarly legacy.BR> Contributors: ROBERT S. BABCOCK, RICHARD E. BARTON, STEPHANIE MOOERS CHRISTELOW, DAVID CROUCH, RAGENA C. DE ARAGON, LOIS L. HUNEYCUTT, DAVID S. SPEAR, HEATHER J. TANNER, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, ANN WILLIAMS, SALLY N. VAUGHN.

John Marlowe, "Anglo - Egyptian Relations 1800-1956 "
English | ISBN: 1032388447 | 2023 | 470 pages | PDF | 53 MB
First Published in 1965 Anglo - Egyptian Relations 1800-1956 provides a comprehensive overview of the political history of Egypt from 1800-1956. John Marlowe discusses important themes like the first British occupation; Great Britain and Mohamed Ali; second British Occupation; the 1936 treaty; the second German war; Egypt and the Arab League; post-war nationalism; revolution and the road to Suez. This book is a must read for students and scholars of Egyptian history, African history, and history in general.

John Blair, "Building Anglo-Saxon England"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0691162980 | PDF | pages: 496 | 138.9 mb
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize