Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples and Politics in the British Isles 1280-1460

by Michael Brown

Book Overview

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. 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. Why did the apparent trends towards a single royal ruler, a single elite and a common Anglicised world stop so abruptly after...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405840595
• ISBN13: 9781405840590
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"