Disunited Kingdoms Brown Michael
Disunited Kingdoms Brown Michael In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the…
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Disunited Kingdoms Brown Michael
In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the English. Why did the apparent trends towards a single royal ruler, a single elite and a common Anglicised world stop so abruptly after 1300? However by 1400 Britain and Ireland were divided between the warring kings of England and Scotland, and peoples still starkly defined by race and nation.
Using a chronological structure to guide And what did the resulting pattern of distinct nations and extensive borderlands contribute to the longer-term history of the British Isles?In this innovative analysis of a critical period in the history of the British Isles, Michael Brown addresses these fundamental questions and shows how the national identities underlying the British state today are a continuous legacy of these years.