This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural society exclusively through the structures of lordship and challenging the teleological idea of the residential group as the prototype of the late- medieval structured community. -- .
Charles West Boeken
Charles G. West creëert westernromans, gedreven door de toewijding om de mannen en vrouwen die de gevaarlijke grens trotseerden die het Wilde Westen vormden, authentiek te portretteren. Zijn verhalen zijn diep geworteld in ijverig onderzoek, waarbij fictieve verhalen worden verweven in de structuur van echte plaatsen en historische gebeurtenissen, om zo de geest van het tijdperk en zijn volk te vangen. Wests protagonisten, hoewel niet altijd conventionele helden, worden vaak opgeroepen tot heroïsche daden, waarbij ze consequent eerlijkheid naast moed belichamen. Zijn werk onderscheidt zich door historische nauwkeurigheid en een diep begrip van de individuen die het Wilde Westen hebben gevormd.
The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom
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Opening up Carolingian history to a new generation, this book draws on recently translated primary sources to examine the collapse of an early medieval kingdom.
From acclaimed storyteller Charles G. West, the Spur Award-winning adventure that first introduced the legend of John Hawk, an army scout with a tracker’s eye, a cowboy’s grit—and his own brand of justice . . . "Rarely has an author painted the great American West in strokes so bold, vivid, and true." —Ralph Compton To start their new life together, Jamie Pratt and his young bride join a westward wagon train bound for the Rocky Mountains. They get as far as Helena when their unscrupulous wagon master deserts them, leaving them as good as dead in a godforsaken, blood-scorched land. The other settlers agree to set stakes where they are, but Jamie and his bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep into Sioux territory. Jamie’s brother, Monroe, enlists the legendary scout, John Hawk, to find them. A hardened veteran of the range, Hawk is living off the land in a little cabin on the Boulder River when Monroe comes begging for his help. To rescue Jamie and his bride, Hawk—and his guns—will come out fighting, riding fast and fierce into deadly odds. For any other man it’s a suicide mission. For Hawk, delivering justice is what he was born to do . . . Winner of the 2018 Spur Award for Best Paperback Western