First English Empire Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343

Name: First English Empire Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343
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ISBN: 9780199257249

ISBN-10: 0199257248

ISBN-13: 9780199257249

Edition: 2002

Authors: R. R. Davies

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The future of the United Kingdom is an increasingly vexed question. This book traces the roots of the issue to the Middle Ages, when English power and control came to extend to most of the British Isles. By 1300 it looked as if Edward I was in control of virtually the whole of the British Isles. Ireland, Scotland, and Wales had, in different degrees, been subjugated to his authority; contemporaries were even comparing him with King Arthur. This was the culmination of aremarkable English advance into the outer zones of the British Isles in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.What remained to be seen was how stable (especially in Scotland and Ireland) was this English 'empire'; how far the…

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List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction



The High Kingship of the British Isles



Island Mythologies



Orbits of Power



Political Heartlands and Political Outbacks



'Sweet Civility' and 'Barbarous Rudeness'



The Anglicization of the British Isles



The Ebb Tide of the English Empire, 1304-1343


Epilogue: The British Isles and the Identity of England


Index