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Paperback
284 pp.
152 mm x 226 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190656690

Copyright Year:
2016

Imprint: OUP US

The Peoples of the British Isles

A New History. From Prehistoric Times to 1688, Fourth Edition

Samantha A. Meigs and Stanford E. Lehmberg

The Peoples of the British Isles examines the conflicts and commonalities among the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present. The series focuses throughout on the lives of real people-how they made a living, organized their society and institutions, related to each other, and understood themselves and their world.

The new edition of these books features a fuller treatment of the Celtic countries and expanded and integrated content on both popular culture and the changing roles of women in society throughout history. Volume I covers the development of the Four Nations of the British Isles from the prehistoric era up to the revolution of 1688.

Major themes covered in this volume include:
* The formation and evolution of national identities within the British Isles
* Emerging religious identities and beliefs from the medieval to the early modern periods
* Interconnections between the British Kingdoms and the European continent
* An interdisciplinary approach incorporating literature, archeology, art, linguistics, place-name studies, and oral traditions

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
1. Prehistoric Britain
Geography
Prehistoric Britain
Stone Forts and Megaliths
The Prehistoric Peoples of the British Isles
The Iron Age (Beginning ca. 750 BCE)
Suggested Reading
2. Roman Britain
The Beginning of the Roman Conquest
The Claudian Invasion
Boudicca and the Revolt of the Iceni
Extension of the Roman Conquest
The End of Roman Occupation
Impact of the Romans
Britain after the Romans
Suggested Reading
3. Early Christian Britain
The Arrival of Christianity in Britain
Early Christianity in Wales
The Saints of Ireland: Patrick and Brigid
Columcille and the Celtic Monasticism
Legacies of Celtic Monasticism
Suggested Reading
4. Early Medieval Britain and Ireland and the Impact of the Vikings
The Viking Raids
British Political Structures: The Scots, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Irish
Viking Expansion and Settlement
The Second Wave of Viking Invasions and the Anglo-Saxon Succession
The Succession of 1066
Overall Impact of the Vikings: The Celtic Regions
Anglo-Saxon Society and Culture
Suggested Reading
5. Norman Britain
Who Were the Normans?
The Normanization of Britain
Norman Influences in Scotland
The Normanization of Ireland
The Normans in Wales
Consolidation of Norman Power in England
Suggested Reading
6. Britain in the High Middle Ages
The Agricultural Revolution
The Urban Revolution
Twelfth Century Religious Life
The Reign of Henry II
Plantagenet Rule in Britain: The Sons of Henry II
Suggested Reading
7. Identity Formation in the Four Kingdoms
National Monarchy
Wars of Expansion: Wales
Wars of Expansion: Scotland
Wars of Expansion: Ireland
Suggested Reading
8. Britain in the Later Middle Ages
The Crises of the Fourteenth Century: Religion, War, and Plague
The English Succession
The Fifteenth Century: A Time of Transformation
The Late Middle Ages in Ireland
Scotland
Wales
The End of the Middle Ages
Suggested Reading
9. The British Renaissance
The Wars of the Roses and the Shifting Succession
Scotland and the Early Stewarts
James IV and the Scottish Renaissance
Ireland's Politics and the Gaelic Revival
The Irish Renaissance Lords
The English Renaissance: Henry VIII
Suggested Reading
10. The Age of Reformation
Henry VIII and the Origins of the English Reformation
Cranmer, Cromwell, and the Start of the English Reformation
The Broader Context of the Reformation in England
The Impact of the Reformation in England
Henry VIII's Last Years
The Scottish Reformation
The Continental Context of the Scottish Reformation
The Reformation in Ireland
The Reformation in Wales
Suggested Reading
11. Elizabethan Politics and Jacobean Tensions
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement
Elizabethan Domestic Politics
The Internal Catholic Threat
International Politics
The Irish Problem
James VI of Scotland/I of England
Accession to the English Throne
Ireland
Scotland
James's Later Parliaments
Suggested Reading
12. Charles I and the Three Kingdoms
Charles and the Age of Crisis
The Eleven Years Tyranny
Crisis in Scotland and Ireland
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Scotland
Charles's Trial and Execution
The Commonwealth and Protectorate
Suggested Reading
13. From Restoration to Revolution
Charles II, the Merry Monarch
Restoration in the Other Kingdoms
Restoration London
Science and Culture
The Popish Plot
Charles's Death
Accession of James II of England/VII of Scotland
The Reign of William and Mary
Scotland
Ireland
Aftermath
Suggested Reading

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Samantha A. Meigs (BA, MA, University of Colorado; PhD, Northwestern University) is associate professor of history at the University of Indianapolis. She received a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Ireland and an NEH Summer Grant for her research on Highland Scotland, and is author of The Reformations in Ireland: Tradition and Confessionalism,1400-1690.

Stanford E. Lehmberg (Ph.D., Litt.D., Cambridge University; d. 2012 ) was professor of History Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He was a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the author of numerous articles and books.

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