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0081
- The English and The Norman Conquest Williams, Ann
An
authoritive view by the author as most books on the Norman
conquest concentrate on the conquerors, the Norman settlers who
became the ancestors of the medieval English baronage. This book
is different, setting out to examine the experience of the lesser
English lords and landowners, which has been largely ignored.
Ann Williams shows how they survived the conquest and settlement,
adapted to foreign customs, and in the process preserved native
tradition and culture. Though the great earls and magnates fell
with Harold, some of their dependents secured a place in the entourages
of their supplanters, or were too useful to the royal administration
(based largely on English procedure) to be completely displaced;
in the Church, too, a reservoir of English sentiment survived.
The testimony of the Anglo-Norman historians who chronicled the
Conquest, together with other evidence, including the Domesday
Book (based on the English system of local government), are an
important source for our knowledge of how the lesser aristocracy
and the free landholders felt about, and reacted to, their new
masters.Dr Ann Williams was until her retirement, Senior Lecturer
in medieval history at the Polytechnic of North London Hardcover,
264pp Fine Book in Fine Cover.Clipped d/w has small closed tear
to base of spine.
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0082
- Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England, C. 500-1066
Williams,
Ann
A study of the exercise of royal authority before the Norman Conquest.
The roots of English kingship and government lie in the multiplicity
of kingdoms which emerged in the seventh century.. "Six centuries
separate the adventus Saxonum from the battle of Hastings: during
those long years, the English kings changed from warlords, who
exacted submission by force, into law-givers to whom obedience
was a moral duty. In the process they created many of the administrative
institutions which continued to serve their successors. They also
created England: the united kingdom of the English people. Hardcover,
272 pp Fine Book.
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0083
- Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul 987-1040 Bachrach, Bernard
S.
Biography of Fulk Nerra, Count of Anjou. A comprehensive biography
of Fulk Nerra, an important medieval ruler, who came to power
in his teens and rose to be master in the west of the French Kingdom.
Descendant of warriors and administrators who served the French
kings, Fulk in turn built the state that provided a foundation
for the vast Angevin empire later constructed by his descendants.
Bernard Bachrach finds the terms "constructed" and "built" more
than metaphorical in relation to Fulk's career. He shows how Fulk
and the Angevin counts who followed him based their long-term
state building policy on Roman strategies and Vegetius's work
(Flavius Vegetius Renatus), fl. c.385–400, Roman writer. He is
the author of Epitoma rei militaris [a summary of military matters],
the Roman military system. 1993 1st edition. (Hardcover) Near
fine in near fine dust jacket. 392pp. Maps, illustrations, genealogies,
chronology, notes, bibliography, indices. DJ protected with Mylar
Cover. Publisher, University of California Press
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0004
- Berkeley Manuscripts Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley
John Smith, The Berkeley Manuscripts: The Lives of the Berkeleys
. . . with a Description of the Hundred of Berkeley,Berkeley Manuscripts
- Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys, Illustrative
of Ancient Manners and the Constitution ; Including All the Pedigrees
in That Ancient Manuscript, Etc John Nichols, London, 1821. Quarter
Leather. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over
9¾" - 12" tall. Gilt spine titles and gilt number to foot of spine.
Spine somewhat discoloured. Light wear to extremities. Library bookplate
to front pastedown. Ink stamp to title and verso. xii + 242 pages.
Two folding pedigrees intact and engraved frontispiece of Berkeley
Church. Some foxing sound and complete 1876 owners signature.
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0085
- New England Legends and Folklore Samuel Adams Drake, F.
T. Merrill illustrations Good+ in Boards Fraying to spine ends and
corners. Cracks to front and back hinges. Scuffs to FFEP. Former
owners signatures to 2nd page. Title: A Book of New England Legends
and Folk Lore Author: Drake, Samuel Adams Publishe: Roberts Bros.
Boston Yr. Published 1884.
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0086
- American Naval Broadsides by Edgar Newbold Smith A collection
of early naval prints (1745-1815) 117 illus., 92 in full color
Philadelphia Maritime Museum and Clarkson N. Potter inc., Publisher
New York 1st edition 1974 Hardcover Fine DJ Fine 225 pg
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0087
- American Vital Records From the Gentleman's Magazine 1731-1868
Dobson, David Compiled By Publisher Genealogical Publishing Co.
Baltimore Yr. Published 1987 Hardcover NF Clean blue cloth decorated
with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. Prior owners signature. From
the day of the magazines inception until 1868 it published colums
listing births, marriages and deaths. A genealogists treasure house.
8vo; 310 pages.
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0088
- A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records Charles
Manwaring 3 vol. Set Charles Manwaring's work which names
some 30,000 persons found in wills, inventories, distributions of
estates, and court records from the district of Connecticut that
embraces Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor
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- MEMORIAL HISTORY OF HARTFORD COUNTY, 1633-1884 2 Vol. Set
Ed. by J. Hammond Trumbull. 2 vols., 704+569p. (1886) 1994. Volume
I,General county history; town & city of Hartford. Volume II, History
of individual towns in Hartford County.
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0090
-GENEALOGIES AND ESTATES OF CHARLESTOWN, IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX,
AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTES, 1629-1818 Wyman, Thomas
Bellows
Charlestown
was established about 1630 at the beginning of the Great Migration,
and was annexed to Boston in 1874. It is situated i n Middlesex
County which was created in 1643 when Massachusetts Bay Colony was
divided into four shires. Originally Charlestown also included Burlingt
on, Malden, Somerville, Stoneham, Wilmington, Winchester, and Woburn,
and p arts of Arlington, Cambridge, Medford, and Reading. Its extant
records begi n in the mid-1630s. This is truly a phenomenal genealogical
collection hardcover, 1982
reprint of the 1879 edition (condensed to one volume), blue
end papers, 1182 pages, pages bright, no internal markings or names,
a solid copy, near FINE, in a VERY GOOD dustjacket, in a mylar dj
cover.
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