From Domesday Book To Magna Carta 1087-1216: Oxford History Of England Paperback

A. L. Poole

This illuminating book provides an account of a century and a half of English medieval history, beginning with the compilation of the Domesday Book and culminating in the issue of the Magna Carta and the subsequent civil war. A. L. Poole assesses the social and economic background to the period, the position of the monarchy, progress in education, church reform, and also studies the twelfth-century renaissance in literature and art, providing a full and detailed study of everyday life in English towns and country in medieval England.

9780192852878

English

Oxford University Press

16 Sep 1993

560

Dr A. L. Poole (1889-1963) was Former Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford.

an important and useful book, written - and well written - by a scholar of great learning and integrity * Guardian * a model of its kind ... has the unusual merit of being at once comprehensive and uniformly satisfying * TES * the standard work ... the most brilliant and the most exciting of the medieval centuries to be judged by the highest standards * TLS *