War and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

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Diana E. S. Dunn
Liverpool University Press, 2000 - History - 213 pages
The nine contributors to this book focus on three English civil wars: the civil war of King Stephen’s reign; the Wars of the Roses; and the civil war of the seventeenth century. The wars are viewed within a wider European context, and characteristics of civil war are considered alongside developments in European warfare. This book deals with the general theme of the interaction of war and society rather than the details of individual campaigns and battles. It is concerned with the nature of war and the way it was conducted in the medieval and early modern periods, as well as the way it has been recorded and interpreted by contemporaries and later commentators.
 

Contents

The Naming of Battlefields in the Middle Ages
34
Civil War and Ecclesiastical Peace in the Reign of King Stephen
53
Earls and Earldoms during King Stephens Reign
76
The Impact of Foreign Troops in the Civil Wars of King
96
The Role of Margaret of Anjou in
141
Images of the Welsh in the London
162
One of the Goodliest and Strongest Places that I Ever Looked
180
Index
205
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