| Physical description |
1 online resource (xlii, 262 pages) |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliography of James Campbell": pages (xxxix-xlii) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
James Campbell as historian / Patrick Wormald -- James Campbell as tutor / David Hargreaves -- "Off to do good" : James Campbell as colleague / H.G. Pitt -- Peculiaris patronus noster : the saint as patron of the state in the early Middle Ages / Alan Thacker -- Two frontier states : Northumbria and Wessex, c. 650-750 / J.R. Maddicott -- The construction of the early Scottish state / Alexander Grant -- Observations upon a scene in the Bayeux tapestry, the Battle of Hastings, and the military system of the late Anglo-Saxon state / M.K. Lawson -- Eadmer, his archbishops and the English state / Mark Philpott -- Henry I and counsel / John Hudson -- Towns and the English state, 1066--1500 / D.M. Palliser -- A twelfth-century view of the Spanish past / Richard Fletcher -- Anti-semitism and the medieval English state / Robert C. Stacey -- From Rex Wallie to Princeps Wallie : charters and state formation in thirteenth-century Wales / Charles Insley -- The English state and the Plantagenet empire, 1259-1360 / Mark Ormrod -- Politics, sanctity, and the Breton state 1364 / Michael Jones -- The empire of Tamerlane / David Morgan -- Brittany and the French crown : the legacy of the English attack upon Fougères (1449) / Craig Taylor. |
| Summary |
James Campbell''s work has established the impressive powers of the Anglo-Saxon state, with its ability to impose laws, raise revenue, undertake major works and consult the interests and wishes of its subjects. This collection of essays looks at the state and its successors from a number of angles. |
| Other author |
Maddicott, John Robert.
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Palliser, D. M. (David Michael), 1939-
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Campbell, James, 1935-2016.
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| Subject |
Campbell, James, 1935-2016.
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Middle Ages.
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State, The.
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
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Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485.
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Festschriften |
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History |
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Festschriften. |
| ISBN |
9780826443496 (electronic bk.) |
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0826443494 (electronic bk.) |
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1852851953 |
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9781852851958 |
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