Charles William Chadwick Oman

Revival: The Sixteenth Century (1936) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Often some one precious detail of war lurks in the moiddle of a book of the most unlikely description. After turning over tens of thousands of leaves in Latin, French, Italian, German, English, Spanish and Dutch print, one is left with an accumulation of observed phenomena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351341707
• Artikelnr.: 54832469

Autorenporträt

Charles Oman was elected the Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1905, in succession to Montagu Burrows. He was also elected to the FBA that year, and served as President of the Royal Historical Society (1917- 1921), the Numismatic Society and the Royal Archaeological Institute. Oman's academic career was interrupted by the First World War, during which he was employed by the government's Press Bureau and the Foreign Office. He became an honorary fellow of New College in 1936, and received the honorary degrees of DCL (Oxford, 1926) and LL.D (Edinburgh, 1911 and Cambridge, 1927). He died at Oxford aged 86. He was awarded the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1928.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter: 1: Prehistoric Britain. 2: The Celts in Britain Down to the
Invasion of Julus. 3: Caesar in Britain. 4: Britain Between the Invasion of
Julus Caesar and the Invasion of Claudius. 5: The Roman Conquest of Britain
- Claudius and Nero. 6: Conquest of Northern Britain- Cerealis and
Agricola. 7: Roman Britain from Domitian to Commodus. 8: From Commodus to
Carausius. 9: From Diocletian. 10: Christianity in Britain During the Roman
Period. 11: The Anglo-Saxons in Britain. 12: The Anglo-Saxon Invasion. 13:
The Settlement of the Conquerors-The Early Kingdoms. 14: The Second Advance
of the Invaders- Ceawlin and Aethelfrith. 15: The Conversion of the
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms. 16: The Balance of Power- Mercia, Northumbria and
Wessex. 17: The Eighth Century - The Merican Domination. 18: The Social
Organisation of the Early English Kingdoms. 19: The Political Organisation
of the Early English Kingdoms. 20: The Eve of the Storm- Rise of Ecgbert of
Wessex. 21: The Vikings and Their Own. 22: From Ecgbert to Alfred. 23: The
Reign of Alfred- The Earlier Danish Wars. 24: Alfreds Later Years- His Work
as A Statesman and Scholar- His Last Danish War. 25: The Reconquest of the
Danelaw. 26: From Edmund I to Edward the Martyr. 27: Aethelred the Redeless
and Edmund Ironside. 28: Cnut and His Sons. 29: Edward the Confessor and
Harold the Godwineson Conclusion.