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Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture

This attention-grabbing and significant e-book makes use of a wealth of latest assets to reconstruct the psychological international of medieval farmers and, by way of doing so, argues that there was a stereotypical interpretation of the center a long time. David Stone overturns the conventional view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and as a substitute finds that agricultural decision-making used to be as rational within the fouteenth century as nowa days.

The Big Walks of the North

From the good Glen method to the Coast to Coast direction, there's no greater technique to become aware of the astonishing range of northern Britain's panorama than strolling. even if you take pleasure in exploring eco-friendly and lightly rolling dales or tackling rugged mountain paths, there are walks the following to maintain you rambling all 12 months around.

Society and Cultural Forms in Nineteenth Century England

The transformation of British society through the nineteenth century is a typical of old description. The transition from an commercial yet nonetheless predominantly agricultural society, with a lot of its conventional, vertically geared up kinds of social association nonetheless intact, to a predominantly city, category divided and recognizably smooth society continues to be one of many impressive variations of social heritage, the prototype certainly for a lot of human historical past within the twentieth century.

1415 : Henry V’s year of glory

An epic account of King Henry V and the mythical conflict of Agincourt, from the writer of the bestselling Time Traveller's advisor to Medieval England.
Henry V is thought of as the nice English hero. Lionised in his personal lifetime for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous software of justice, he was once increased by means of Shakespeare right into a champion of English nationalism. yet does he fairly need to be considered 'the maximum guy who ever governed England'?

In Ian Mortimer's groundbreaking ebook, he portrays Henry within the pivotal 12 months of his reign; recording the dramatic occasion of 1415, he bargains the fullest, so much targeted and least romanticised view we've of Henry and of what he did. the result's not just a desirable reappraisal of Henry; it brings to the fore many unpalatable truths which biographies and armed forces historians have mostly overlooked. on the centre of the publication is the crusade which culminated within the conflict of Agincourt: a slaughter flooring designed to not increase England's curiosity at once yet to illustrate God's approval of Henry's royal authority on either side of the channel.

1415 used to be a 12 months of non secular persecution, own ache and one horrendous conflict. this can be the tale of that 12 months, as obvious over the shoulder of its such a lot cold-hearted, such a lot formidable and such a lot celebrated hero.