Essays in medieval history /
Essays in Medieval History marks the retirement from the University of Toronto of one of North America's most distinguished medieval scholars, Professor Bertie Wilkinson. It consists of twenty-three essays, all previously unpublished, by the leading medieval historians of the English-speaking w...
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[Toronto] :
[University of Toronto Press],
[1969]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; I Hadrian IV, the Byzantine Empire, and the Latin Orient: BY J.G. ROWE, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO; Antioch and the Byzantine Empire; Renaud de Chatillon, Prince of Antioch; Baldwin III's rapprochement with Constantinople; Byzantine and Papal policy in southern Italy; William of Sicily, Hadrian IV, and Manuel Comnenus; Hadrian IV's overtures; Byzantine triumphs; Prospects for co-operation; II An Unpublished Letter by Abbot Hugh II of Reading Concerning Archbishop Hubert Walter: BY G. CONSTABLE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Archbishop Hubert Walter and the monastic orders
- Abbot Hugh of ReadingHis role in the dispute between the monks of Canterbury and Archbishops Baldwin and Hubert Walter; Date of the letter; Contents; Value; Text of Abbot Hugh's letter; III William de Montibus: A Medieval Teacher: BY H. MACKINNON, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO; Biographical sketch; Influence of the University of Paris; Known works; Characteristic features and techniques; The distinctio method; Didactic verse; The Peniteas cito; Problem of authorship; Dependence of the work; William de Montibus author of the Peniteas cito
- IV The Constitutional Problem in Thirteenth-Century England: BY THE LATE R.F. TREHARNE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALESRoyal authority and political theory; Glanvill; Bracton; The constitutional problem in England; The king and the magnates; Angevin kingship; The Great Charter; Effect of John's death; Re-issues of Magna Carta; Its true constitutional significance; The charter and the "myth, "; Non-feudal provisions; Conclusions; V Notes on the Making of the Dunstable Annals, AD 33 to 1242: BY C.R. CHENEY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; Previous editors of the Dunstable annals; Manuscripts
- The origin of the annalsThe question of authorship; Methods of composition; Duplication in the annals; Historical value of the Dunstable annals; VI The Ordines of the Third Recension of the Medieval English Coronation Order: BY J. BRÜCKMANN, YORK UNIVERSITY; Evolution of the medieval English coronation order; Twelfth- and thirteenth-century sources; Manuscripts of the Third Recension Ordo; General picture; Families within the Third Recension Ordines; Stemma; Conclusions; VII Matthew Paris and the Mongols: BY J.J. SAUNDERS, UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND
- General characteristics of the Chronica MajoraThe account of the Mongol invasions and the Saracen ambassadors 1238-42; The Assassins; English reaction to Isma'ili overtures; The great Mongol offensive; Paris' reports; His account of diplomatic exchanges; Sources of information; Value of Paris' material; VIII A Statue of Henry of Almain: BY P.H. BRIEGER, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO; Manuscript illustration of Canto XII of the Divine Comedy; Murder of Henry of Almain; Miniature in Villani's Chronicle; References to a statue in Westminster Abbey; Statue of Emperor Henry VII; Heart burials