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The Making of the Neville Family in England, 1166-1400

By: Charles R. Young

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The Making of the Neville Family in England, 1166-1400

By: Charles R. Young

A study of power in the middle ages: the Nevilles of Raby, who included among their members Warwick the Kingmaker, was one of the major baronial families in England. The story of the Neville family is a fascinating one. From their inconspicuous beginnings in Lincolnshire after the Norman Conquest, by the fourteenth century the Nevilles of Raby were among the most influential groups in the north of England, virtually ruling the area by means of the royal offices they held, and their political power reached its zenith in the fifteenth century with Richard de Neville, earl of Warwick, the so-called Kingmaker. This new study aims to answer the question of how a family of knightly status but with no special prominence was able to rise to such heights, tracing its growth and development through a careful examination of surviving documents; it also illustrates how the governance of medieval England worked with the cooperation of baronial families in a pragmatic manner, quite apart from any abstract legal or constitutional principles. CHARLES R. YOUNG is Professor Emeritusof History at Duke University.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0851156681

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9780851156682

Letters from the Attic

Save the Last Dance for Me

By: Charles Young

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Save the Last Dance for Me

By: Charles Young

FASCINATING MANY WILL APPRECIATE THE NOSTALGIA AND PERSONAL LOOK INTO THE GREATEST ERA OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY. Dr. Bruce Shields, Professor Emeritus, Yale This personal history recalls family, love, and young romance beneath the roar of a raging war, building on letters stored away during World War II. A widower now remarried, Charles Young retires from a long teaching career in Greece and returns home to Connecticut with his wife, Mary. After they move into his old family homestead, they discover a box of letters in the attic. One letter at a time an early life is revealed. Charles was just finishing junior high school when World War II broke out. He was a boy then and deeply in love with a girl named Launa, with whom hed meet at night in the park every full moonuntil they were discovered and Launa was sent away. There was nothing to keep them together but their letters. In 1943 Charles was accepted into a naval program at Harvard University. Away from his family for the first time, he kept in contact once again through letters, which included a detailed account of his service with the marines during the battle of Okinawa and the final surrender by the Japanese in Tokyo Bay in 1945. Sharing a cache of letters from the early forties, Charles recalls family, friendship, and love throughout his life.

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iUniverse

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1475976038

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9781475976038

Problematising Young People

A Critical Ethnographic Investigation of ADHD

By: Charles Marley

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Problematising Young People

A Critical Ethnographic Investigation of ADHD

By: Charles Marley

By utilising various strands of theoretical and empirical material, this book focuses on young people to provide an ethnographic investigation of the nexus of elements that conditioned the possibility for the everyday social practice of ADHD to be in place within an NHS region in Scotland.

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190

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1838678972

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9781838678975

The Royal Forests of Medieval England

By: Charles R. Young

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The Royal Forests of Medieval England

By: Charles R. Young

The distinction between the forest and the trees is fundamental to this study, for the royal forest of medieval England was a complex institution with legal, political, economic, and social significance. To protect the "beasts of the forest" and their habitat, initially for the king's hunting and later for economic exploitation, an elaborate organization of officials and courts administered a system of "forest law" that was unique to medieval England. The subject can first be studied in detail in the records and chronicles of the Angevin kings, which reflect the restless activity of Henry II and his growing corps of officials that led to the expansion of the area designated as royal forest. At its height in the thirteenth century, an estimated one-fourth of the land area of England and its riches came under the special jurisdiction of forest law. Barons whose holdings lay within the royal forest were restricted in their use of the land, and the activity of all who lived or traveled in the forest was circumscribed. Until the institution of new taxes overshadowed the economic importance of the forest and the king divested himself of large areas of forest in 1327, the extent of the royal forest, with its special jurisdiction, was often a source of conflict between king and barons and was a major political issue in the Magna Carta crisis of 1215. This is the first general history of the royal forest system from its beginning with the Norman Conquest to its decline in the later Middle Ages. The author pays special attention to the development of forest law alongside common law, and the interrelationship between the two types of law, courts, and justices. The preservation of extensive unpublished records of the forest courts in the Public Record Office makes possible this intensive study of the legal and administrative aspects of the royal forest; chronicles and the records of the Exchequer, among other sources, shed light on the political and economic importance of the royal forests in medieval England. The author's ultimate objective is to show the influence of the royal forest upon the daily lives of contemporaries—both the barons who held land and the peasants who tilled land within the royal forests.

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231

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512809187

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9781512809183

On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of the U.S.–Mexican War Battlefield

Historical Archaeology of the U.S.-Mexican War Battlefield

By: Charles M. Haecker

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On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of the U.S.–Mexican War Battlefield

Historical Archaeology of the U.S.-Mexican War Battlefield

By: Charles M. Haecker

One need not be schooled in military history or archaeology to benefit from this research, for the authors do an excellent job of maintaining the interest of [both] the scholarly reader and anyone new to these subjects."--Journal of the West

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Texas A&M University Press

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160344355X

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Book's by Charles R. Young

The Making of the Neville Family in England, 1166-1400

The Making of the Neville Family in England, 1166-1400

Letters from the Attic

Letters from the Attic

Problematising Young People

Problematising Young People

The Royal Forests of Medieval England

The Royal Forests of Medieval England

On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of the U.S.–Mexican War Battlefield

On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of the U.S.–Mexican War Battlefield

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