Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe - Couverture rigide

 
9780952973478: Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe

Synopsis

Studies draw on history, archaeology, art history and literature to examine the phenomenon of the court and its relationship with outlying and distant areas. What is a court? Is it synonymous with a capital? Are both dependent on the presence (or absence) of a ruler and the machinery of government and administration? Such issues are problematic, and the attempt to define the relationship between court and region is a central theme in the essays collected here. They employ a variety of disciplines, archaeology, art history, literature and history, to examine the phenomenon of the court and its relationship withthe immediate hinterland or more distant areas, in places as far apart as the Carolingian Empire and Lancastrian Normandy, London, York and Prague, and the timeframe extends from the beginning of the eighth century to the later years of the fifteenth. Contributors: STUART AIRLIE, ANDY ORCHARD, JULIAN D. RICHARDS, W.M. ORMROD, PAUL CROSSLEY, PETER RYCRAFT, ANNE CURRY, COLIN RICHMOND

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À propos des auteurs

SARAH REES JONES is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of York, UK.

Professor Richard Marks FSA is a member of the History of Art Department at Cambridge University and specialises in medieval art, on which he has published extensively. He was born in Bedfordshire and has a long-standing interest in the county’s histor

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