The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
By: edited by Ralph Griffiths.
Contributors: Griffiths, Ralph Alan.
Series: The short Oxford history of the British Isles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.; Great Britain -- History -- 14th century.
Description: Provides an integrated history of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales in a period of particular turbulence and upheaval. Each chapter compares and contrasts developments in the four countries and focuses on particular themes: society and population, economic life, religion, intellectual life and cultural expression, kingdoms and dominions at peace and at war, and kingship and government. Specially commisioned from six leading historians, these chapters provide lively and authoritative coverage of the main developments of the period. Including maps, a chronology and an introduction and conclusion by Ralph Griffiths to draw together key points, this book presents an innovative account of British and Irish history in the later Middle Ages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-235) and index.