The English in the Twelfth Century

Autorentext
John Gillingham

Klappentext
Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly obligations, as perceived by contemporary historians.

Inhalt
Introduction - the English in the 12th century. Part 1 Imperialism: the beginnings of English imperialism; the context and purposes of Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain"; conquering the barbarians - war and chivalry in Britain and Ireland; Henry II, Richard I and the Lord Rhys; the travels of Roger of Howden and his views of the Irish, Scots and Welsh; the foundations of a disunited Kingdom. Part 2 National identity: Gaimar, the prose "Brut", and the making of English history; Henry of Huntingdon and the 12th-century revival of the English nation; the English invasion of Ireland. Part 3 Values and structures: thegns and knights in 11th-century England - who was then the gentleman?; the introduction of knight service into England; 1066 and the introduction of chivalry into England; kingship, chivalry and love - political and cultural values in the earliest history written in French, Geoffrey Gaimar's "Estoire des Engleis"; some observations on social mobility in England between the Norman Conquest and the early-13th century.

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