Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these peopl...(展开全部)

Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these peopl...(展开全部)

'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the Battle of Maldon, an epic poem written to celebrate the bravery of an English army defeated by Viking raiders in 991, emerge from a diverse literature - including Beowulf and Bede's Ecclesiastical History - produced by the people known as the Anglo-Saxons: Germanic tribes who migrated to ...(展开全部)

A definitive and ground-breaking history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris.

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his "History of England" won instantaneous success following the publication of its first volumes in 1849, and was rapidly translated in...(展开全部)

'Constitutional history should, to my mind, be a history not of parties but of institutions, not of struggles but of results ...' F. W. Maitland's remarkable course of lectures provides the basic framework of English constitutional history in a brief, but original, scholarly and very readable form. His method is to take five crucial periods and to present in each a panoramic vi...(展开全部)

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本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

梅特兰(Maitland，Frederic Willian，1850～1906) ，英国著名法学家、历史学家。1876年取得律师资格，成为衡平法律师。1888年成为剑桥大学英国法教授。著作范围很广，风格刚健有力。主要著作主要有《格劳塞斯特刑事诉讼》（Gloucester Pleas ，1884)、《高等法院法官与警察》(Justice and Police ，1885)、《末日裁判书及其他》(Domesday Book and Beyond ，1897)、《区与自治城市》(Township and Borough ，1898)，并与弗德雷克•波洛克爵士(Sir Frederic Pollock)合著了权威性著作《爱德华一世以前的英国法律历史》(History of English Law before the time of Edward I，189...(展开全部)

梅特兰(Maitland，Frederic Willian，1850～1906) ，英国著名法学家、历史学家。1876年取得律师资格，成为衡平法律师。1888年成为剑桥大学英国法教授。著作范围很广，风格刚健有力。主要著作主要有《格劳塞斯特刑事诉讼》（Gloucester Pleas ，1884)、《高等法院法官与警察》(Justice and Police ，1885)、《末日裁判书及其他》(Domesday Book and Beyond ，1897)、《区与自治城市》(Township and Borough ，1898)，并与弗德雷克•波洛克爵士(Sir Frederic Pollock)合著了权威性著作《爱德华一世以前的英国法律历史》(History of English Law before the time of Edward I，189...(展开全部)