Philip Beale

A History of the Post in England from the Romans to the Stuarts (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1998, this book discusses three meanings of the word 'post': the letters, those who carried them, and the means of distribution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429648380
• Artikelnr.: 56949306

Autorenporträt

Philip Beale

Inhaltsangabe

1. From the Romans to the Norman Conquest. 2. The Royal Mail in the Middle
Ages. 3. Medieval Highways and Travellers. 4. The Medieval and Tudor
Church: Writs, Letters and Messengers. 5. Medieval Towns: Correspondence
and Messengers. 6. Fifteenth-Century Letters. 7. The Carriers from the
Conquest to the Stuarts. 8. The Organisation of the Tudor Post at Home and
Abroad. 9. Carrying the Tudor Mail. 10. Tudor Roads and Postal Routes. 11.
Sixteenth-Century Letters. 12. The Organisation of a National Postal
Service. Appendices. 1. Books and Articles on the English Post before 1635.
2. Sir Brian Tuke's Letter to Thomas Cromwell, 17 August 1533. 3. Viscount
Montague's Secretariat, 1595. 4. Examples of Costs of Subsidised Tudor and
Stuart Postal Routes. 5. Postal Accounts from June 1621 to May 1632.