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The English in the Twelfth Century - Imperialism, National Identity and Political Values (Paperback)
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The English in the Twelfth Century - Imperialism, National Identity and Political Values (Paperback)
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Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism
and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly
obligations, as perceived by contemporary historians. Six of the
greatest twelfth-century historians - William of Malmesbury, Henry
of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Gaimar, Roger of
Howden, and Gerald of Wales - are analysed in this collection of
essays, focusing on their attitudes to three inter-related aspects
of English history. The first theme is the rise of the new and
condescending perception which regarded the Irish, Scots and Welsh
as barbarians; set against the background of socio-economic and
cultural change in England, it is argued that this imperialist
perception created a fundamental divide in the history of the
British Isles, one to which Geoffrey of Monmouth responded
immediately and brilliantly. The secondtheme treats chivalry not as
a mere gloss upon the brutal realities of life, but as an important
development in political morality; and it reconsiders some of the
old questions associated with chivalric values and knightly
obligations - home-grown products or imports from France? The third
theme is the emergence of a new sense of Englishness after the
traumas of the Norman Conquest, looking at the English invasion of
Ireland and the making of English history. JOHN GILLINGHAM is
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, London School of
Economics.
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