Barbara Harvey.

Barbara Harvey, ed The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 1066-c 1280 (The Short Oxford History of the British Isles.) just discovered York: Oxford University Pres 2001 Pp xvii, 317 $1695 paper. ISBN 0-19-873139-6

The rife volume in the Short Oxford History of the British Isles series contains the two the strengths and weaknesses that the title would indicate, yet on the whole it is a stimulating and up-to-date introduction to various aspects of a tangled skein period in British history. Barbara Harvey begins with a broad and useful introduction to the period beneath consideration, roughly ...

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