The Beaumont Twins by David Crouch
This book combines a simple dual biographical study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester, the twin sons of Robert, Count of Meulan and Earl of Leicester, with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England. The twins were dominant and colourful characters, whose lives reveal many new points about the politics of the period, in particular the Norman rebellion of 1123-4, the wars of Stephen's reign in Normandy and England and the early years of Henry I. The book analyses the twins' followings, revenues and lands, and studies their relations with the church, their level of literacy, and heraldry. It also contains the first in-depth study of Norman feudal society in the duchy itself, suggests reasons why Normandy was more difficult to govern than England, and explores the use of patronage in twelfth-century society.-
Richard III
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Life on the English Manor
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Stolen Women in Medieval England
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The Pastons and Their England
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History and the Supernatural in Medieval England
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Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England
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Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England
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The Household Knights of King John
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Medieval Merchants
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William of Tyre
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John of Wales
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Lithuania Ascending
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Conquest, Anarchy and Lordship
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Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century
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The Government of England under Henry I
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The Landscape of Pastoral Care in 13th-Century England
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Horse Power in Medieval England
- Making the Holy Roman Empire Holy
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Edward I and the Governance of England, 1272–1307
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Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331–1400
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Royal Childhood and Child Kingship
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Preaching the Crusades
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Warfare in the Latin East, 1192–1291
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A Marginal Economy?
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The Written Word in Early Medieval England
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Reframing the Feudal Revolution
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England's Northern Frontier
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The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition
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The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, c.744–c.900
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Kings, Barons and Justices
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The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus
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Staying Roman
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The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069–1215
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Flodoard of Rheims and the Writing of History in the Tenth Century
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Philosophy and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif
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The Early Humiliati
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Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages
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State and Society in the Early Middle Ages
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Clement V
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History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850
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The Wandering Heretics of Languedoc
David Crouch is a medieval history lecturer at the University of Hull. He is an authority on English and Norman history from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Beaumont Twins (Cambridge, 1986); The Image of Aristocracy in Britain, 1000-1300 (Routledge); and William Marshal (2nd edn, Longman) are among his writings on aristocracy. He's also the author of Longman's The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 and Hambledon's The Normans: the History of a Dynasty.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521090131 |
| ISBN 10 | 052109013X |
| Title | The Beaumont Twins |
| Author | David Crouch |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Medieval Life And Thought: Fourth Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2008-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 268 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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