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The Channel Islands, 1370-1640: Between England and Normandy
Tim Thornton
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Description for The Channel Islands, 1370-1640: Between England and Normandy
Hardback. Charts the history of Jersey and Guernsey, showing their crucial importance for England in the period. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4, 4 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DBKX; 3H; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Charts the history of Jersey and Guernsey, showing their crucial importance for England in the period. This book surveys the history of the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey in the late medieval and early modern periods, focusing on political, social and religious history. The islands' regular tangential appearance in histories ofEngland and the British Isles has long suggested the need for a more systematic account from the perspective of the islands themselves. Jersey and Guernsey were at the forefront of attempts by the English kings in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries to maintain and extend their dominions in ... Read more
Charts the history of Jersey and Guernsey, showing their crucial importance for England in the period. This book surveys the history of the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey in the late medieval and early modern periods, focusing on political, social and religious history. The islands' regular tangential appearance in histories ofEngland and the British Isles has long suggested the need for a more systematic account from the perspective of the islands themselves. Jersey and Guernsey were at the forefront of attempts by the English kings in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries to maintain and extend their dominions in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
472g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843837114
SKU
V9781843837114
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Ref
99-50
About Tim Thornton
TIM THORNTON is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of and a Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author, amongst other works, of Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560 (2000), Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England (2006) and The Channel Islands, 1370-1640 (2012), all published by Boydell and Brewer.
Reviews for The Channel Islands, 1370-1640: Between England and Normandy
Professor Thornton has discovered rare and unpublished archives, some privately held, and drawn them together in a magisterial work. This is a textbook and a sourcebook. It should be on every university reading list.
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Tim Thornton offers here an important reassessment of the government of the Channel Islands in the years from the late-fourteenth-century decline of English ... Read more
SPECULUM
Tim Thornton offers here an important reassessment of the government of the Channel Islands in the years from the late-fourteenth-century decline of English ... Read more