King Stephen

by Ralph Henry Carless Davies

Overview

This well-known text, the standard account of the subject, is essential reading for students and scholars of the Norman period from undergraduate level upwards, and was hailed on first publication as: " a landmark in twelfth-century studies." Written in the form of a biography this completely revised and updated edition discusses the significant social, governmental and religious developments as they arose in the course of the narrative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138837416
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/09/2015
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

R.H.C. Davis

Table of Contents

List of maps and tables.  Preface to the first edition.  Preface to third edition.  Acknowledgements.  Abbreviations.
I Parentage and early life, c 1096-1135.  II. The succession, 1135-1136.  III Mistakes, 1136-1139.  IV. The Empress and her party, 1136-1140.  V. Disaster, 1140-1141.  VI. Recovery, 1141.  VII. A second start, 1142-1143.  VIII. Stalemate, 1143-1147.  IX. The new opposition, 1147-1149.  X The Magnates' Peace, 1150-1154.  Appendix I Earls and earldoms.  Appendix II Principal participants in the Civil War.  Appendix III. The chronicle sources.  Appendix IV. Politics and property.  Appendix V. The Beaumont twins: Waleran of Meulan and Robert Earl of Leicester.  Appendix VI. Geoffrey de Mandeville.  Appendix VII. Ranulf Earl of Chester and Coventry.  Appendix VIII. Regesta III:  Additions and Corrections.  Index