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Splendid...this is a fine book which transports the reader into a different, strange world...It deserves a wide readership and should stimulate renewed interest in this important period of English history (Continuity and Change )
A great achievement. It tells central medieval history as it has not been told before (Continuity and Change )
Bartlett is adept at combining cultural, political and economic approaches, showing how these different lenses can disclose complementary and contradictory images of the past (Continuity and Change )
A great achievement. It tells central medieval history as it has not been told before (Continuity and Change )
Bartlett is adept at combining cultural, political and economic approaches, showing how these different lenses can disclose complementary and contradictory images of the past (Continuity and Change )
Continuity and Change
"A great achievement. It tells central medieval history as it has not been told before"
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
There are few history books that transport you back in the time like this book will. It does not give you a chronological list of events, instead studies the culture and people from the king to the people, their worldview and lifestyle. Wonderful!
36 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is an essential companion to any student studying the Norman or Angevin dynasty, or the period of history from 1066-1225. Robert Bartlett is Wardlaw Professor at St. Andrews University and anyone who has heard him lecture on this subject knows the sheer enormity of his personal knowledge and understanding. He writes with a glorious idiosyncratic brilliance so rare in the academic world, leaving a highly accesible book that thoroughly invokes the period.
If you're going to buy any book, buy this one. History doesn't get much more enticing than this.
I vote to promote Prof. Bartlett to a knighthood!
If you're going to buy any book, buy this one. History doesn't get much more enticing than this.
I vote to promote Prof. Bartlett to a knighthood!
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Every now and then you come across a technical or academic book that is clear, concise and just beautifully written. This is such a book. One hundred and fifty years are covered at a cracking pace and I savoured each and every page. It's a large book at 750+ pages, but it left me wishing it had been twice as long.
Most books relating to this period cover who did what, to whom and when. Bartlett doesn't: he assumes if you're reading this book you already know, at least in outline, the events of the period. It does cover how people lived, worked, worshipped, swore, laughed and cried. It makes you feel that you understand what it would have been liked to have lived during the period.
The book is well structured and you can happily dip in here and there as your interest takes you.
One minor criticism is that there are many words and phrases which, it is plain from context, have a particular technical meaning that Bartlett doesn't explain. But with Google to hand that's just a minor irritation.
I just hope the rest of the series is as good.
Most books relating to this period cover who did what, to whom and when. Bartlett doesn't: he assumes if you're reading this book you already know, at least in outline, the events of the period. It does cover how people lived, worked, worshipped, swore, laughed and cried. It makes you feel that you understand what it would have been liked to have lived during the period.
The book is well structured and you can happily dip in here and there as your interest takes you.
One minor criticism is that there are many words and phrases which, it is plain from context, have a particular technical meaning that Bartlett doesn't explain. But with Google to hand that's just a minor irritation.
I just hope the rest of the series is as good.
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Very good buy so im told.
This book was purchased by me as a present for my partner, I have not read it myself as its not my type of thing but he has reliably informed me that he is very very pleased with... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Skinboy
A Broad and Fascinating Canvas
The start and end dates of Robert Bartlett's period of study in the OUP's New Oxford History of England are not the obvious ones. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Nicholas Casley
An exceptional study of England in the high Middle Ages
Robert Bartlett's contribution to the New Oxford History of England series is about a kingdom in transition. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2008 by Mark Klobas
Everything you always wanted to know about Norman Britain but were...
I am jointly reviewing Frank Barlow's The Feudal Kingdom of England and Robert Bartlett's England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings. Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2008 by reader 451
Superb modern history of a nation
Firstly, the title does what it says on the tin - this is not a history of kings, it is a history of a nation, ruled by oppressive foreign kings. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2008 by Hector Chumpitas
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