The Hollow Crown A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages

by Rubin, Miri

• ISBN13: 9780143035756
• ISBN10: 0143035754
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-26
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

The extraordinary world so brilliantly re-created in The Hollow Crownwas a turbulent and dangerous one. England was racked by famine, rebellion, civil war, and plague—with the descent of the Black Death and the horrific, ultimately futile bloodbath of the Hundred Years War—and yet, despite the turmoil, this period left a magnificent artistic and literary legacy, creating a recognizable spoken and written form of the English language. Ranging from peasant to king, from field to fortress—including the events that are part of the modern world’s collective imagination, not least through Shakespeare’s history plays—The Hollow Crownbrings the texture of late medieval England to life.

Author Biography

Miri Rubin is a leading medieval scholar whose books include the widely praised Corpus Christi. She is the professor of medieval and early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London. Rubin has lived, researched, and taught in Israel, the United States, and Britain.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface	ix
Editorial Note	xiii
Maps	xv
Introduction	1	(16)
1 Famine and Deposition, 1307-1330	17	(40)
2 Plague and War, 1330-1377	57	(59)
3 An Empty Land and its King, 1377-1399	116	(57)
4 Usurpation and the Challenges to Order, 1399-1422	173	(51)
5 'For the world was that time so strange', 1422-1461	224	(51)
6 Little England and a Little Peace, 1462-1485	275	(44)
Epilogue	319	(4)
Genealogical Table	323	(2)
An Essay on Further Reading	325	(30)
Index	355