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William Marshal by David Crouch
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £47.29David Crouch's William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and a brutal but efficient... -
Visual Culture and Tourism by David Crouch 9781859735886
Booksplease Price: £36.44From postcards and paintings to photography and film, tourism and visual culture have a long-standing history of mutual entanglement. For centuries art has inspired many an intrepid traveller, and... -
Tournament: A Chivalric Way of Life by David Crouch 9781852855314
Booksplease Price: £35.21The tournament was a mock battle, at its height between 1100 and 1300, conducted by two arbitrary battalions over many square miles of open country. It was a one-day event, but when joined to... -
Medieval Britain, c.1000-1500 by David Crouch
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.42Though England was the emerging super-state in the medieval British Isles, its story is not the only one Britain can offer; there is a wider context of Britain in Europe, and the story of this period... -
Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages by David Crouch 9789462701700
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £44.39In popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and due to a long tradition of differing national perspectives and... -
The Reign of King Stephen: 1135-1154 by David Crouch 9780582226579
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £51.83At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the... -
The Image of Aristocracy: In Britain, 1000-1300 David Crouch 9780415755047
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristorcracy by examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and 1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those years... -
The Media and the Tourist Imagination: Converging Cultures David Crouch 9780415326261
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global... -
Medieval Britain, c.1000-1500 by David Crouch 9780521190718
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £77.22Though England was the emerging super-state in the medieval British Isles, its story is not the only one Britain can offer; there is a wider context of Britain in Europe, and the story of this period... -
Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge David Crouch 9780415181099
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and... -
The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272: A Social Transformation by David Crouch 9780300114553
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £42.45William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time... -
The Beaumont Twins: The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century by David Crouch 9780521090131
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.67This book combines a simple dual biographical study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester, the twin sons of Robert, Count of Meulan and Earl of Leicester, with an exploration of the exercise... -
The Chivalric Turn: Conduct and Hegemony in Europe Before 1300 by David Crouch 9780198830344
Booksplease Price: £39.56The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have... -
The Chivalric Turn: Conduct and Hegemony in Europe before 1300 by David Crouch 9780198782940
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £117.94The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have... -
The Metham Family Cartulary: Reconstructed from Antiquarian Transcripts David Crouch 9781916506633
Booksplease Price: £30.73David Crouch presents a reconstruction and edition of the cartulary of the one of Yorkshire's leading medieval families. The Methams were once a leading gentry family of Yorkshire, whose origins... -
Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity David Crouch (University of Hull, UK) 9781138249776
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book. Space is conceptualised as being in constant flux as we make our way through various contexts in our daily lives, and is considered in... -
The Birth of Nobility: Constructing Aristocracy in England and France, 900-1300 by David Crouch 9780582369818
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £52.77For 300 years separate and mutually uncomprehending English and French historiographies have confused the history of medieval aristocracy. Unpicking the basic assumptions behind both national... -
Almost Perfekt: How Sweden Works And What We Can Learn From It by David Crouch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32'Engaging' Money Week'A sharp-eyed account of what makes Sweden modern, resilient and rather different' Professor Jonas HinnforsSWEDENA country that defies the laws of economic gravity. A land with... -
Piety, Fraternity and Power - Religious Gilds in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1389-1547 by David Crouch 9780952973447
Booksplease Price: £109.33The religious gild was central to the structure of late medieval society, providing lay people with a focus for public expressions of orthodox piety that accorded with the doctrinal views of... -
The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family: Marshals of England and Earls of Pembroke, 1145-1248 by David Crouch 9781107130036
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £51.91This collection represents the surviving output of the clerks of the men and women of the most powerful magnate dynasty in England, Wales and Ireland in the thirteenth century. Its greatness was... -
Incompetence in Organisations by David Croucher 9780244385651
RRP: £20.10Booksplease Price: £19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244385651Author David CroucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu... -
A History of the County of York: East Riding: Volume X: Part 2: Town and Liberty David Crouch 9781904356530
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.88An authoritative and comprehensive account of an important area centred around the town of Howden. This is the second part of a study of Howdenshire, containing a history of the town of Howden and... -
Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes Carolyn Cartier (Northern Arizona University, USA) 9780415192194
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £53.24The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience... -
Cities and Cultures Malcolm Miles 9780415354431
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what... -
Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of Paul Brand by Travis R. Baker
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. A quick glance at the sources suggests as much. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority of the documents which have survived... -
Sacred Mobilities: Journeys of Belief and Belonging Avril Maddrell 9781138546639
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things on the move. Consideration of a wide range of... -
Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges Federico Ferretti (University College Dublin, Ireland) 9780367219000
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In the last few years, anarchism has been rediscovered as a transnational, cosmopolitan and multifaceted movement. Its traditions, often hastily dismissed, are increasingly revealing insights which... -
The Haskins Society Journal 5 - 1993. Studies in Medieval History by Robert B. Patterson 9780851155500
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24Studies in medieval history including papers on King Stephen, 12c crusaders and a portrait of a medieval anti-semite. The Haskins Society 11th International Conference, University of Houston 1992... -
Anglo-Norman Political Culture and the Twelfth C - Proceedings of the Borchard Conference on Anglo-Norman History, 1995 by C. Warren Hollister 9780851156910
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Papers exploring the impact of change on aspects of the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman world. The twelfth-century renaissance, though usually seen as a French phenomenon, produced fundamental... -
The Haskins Society Journal 13 - 1999. Studies in Medieval History by Stephen Morillo
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The latest volume presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman,... -
King Stephen`s Reign (1135-1154) by Paul Dalton
Booksplease Price: £96.11Expert coverage and new assessments of the reign of King Stephen, set in social, political and European context. The turbulent reign of King Stephen is here subjected to a full assessment by... -
Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World - Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister by Donald F. Fleming
Booksplease Price: £96.11Aspects of the reign of King Henry re-examined, from royal biography to administrative history. It is a testament to C. Warren Hollister's ongoing influence that the reign of Henry I, until his... -
The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, - Papers from the Third Strawberry Hill Conference, 1986 by Christopher Harper-Bill
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75`This wide-ranging and instructive collection makes a valuable addition to the fast-growing body of work on medieval chivalry.' HISTORYAbout the AuthorDavid Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy... -
Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food by Joshua Zeunert 9780367502126
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a burgeoning interest in, and literature of, both landscape studies and food studies. Landscape describes places as relationships and processes... -
Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England by Peter Coss 9781843830368
Booksplease Price: £27.90Discussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and... -
Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography by Simon Naylor 9780582368873
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £92.96Introduces undergraduates to the key debates regarding space and culture and the key theoretical arguments which guide cultural geographical work. This book addresses the impact, significance, and... -
Magna Carta and the England of King John by Janet S. Loengard 9781783270545
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22New interpretations of the effect of Magna Carta and other aspects of the reign of King John. Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and has long been the... -
Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society - Papers Commemorating the 800th Anniversary of King John`s Loss of Normandy by Nicholas Vincent
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05The official records of England are the focus of this volume - their origin, their use, and what they reveal. The major theme of this volume is the records of the Anglo-Norman realm, and how they... -
Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250 - Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow by David Bates 9781843832621
Booksplease Price: £109.03A survey both of medieval biographical writings, and the problems of recovering medieval lives. Biography is one of the oldest, most popular and most tenacious of literary forms. Perhaps the best... -
Contemporary Tourism: Diversity and Change by Erik H. Cohen 9780080442440
Booksplease Price: £106.90This volume brings together Cohen's principle articles on the sociology of tourism, published over the last three decades. Part one collects his major theoretical papers, starting with the pioneering...