Books written by David Crouch

Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography

... (Ansell-Pearson, 1998, p. 55). The second is some modern feminist theory which tries to engage the limits of the possible, especially the work of Cixous and Irigaray. The third is distributed theories of practice (see Thrift, 1996).
The Beaumont Twins: The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century

Fresnes ( see Ecquevilly ) Glastonbury , abbey of St Mary , 166 Frétils , les ( Eure ) , 107n . ... Warenne , m . Roger , e . of Warwick , 29 and n . , 47 , 218-19 ; castellan of Weston , 134-5 ; Danegeld exemptions ...
Tournament

Unfortunately wintry weather had by now returned , the sky was grey and a cold wind was scything across the meadows ; people were shivering . 58 The grand charge was arranged in the river meadows to the east of Chauvency , at the foot ...
Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography

Goodwin, P. (1998) “Hired hands” or “local voice”?: understandings and experience of local participation in ... Haraway, D. (1991) Simians, cyborgs and women, Free Association Books, London. Harrison, C.M. and Burgess, J. (1994) 'Social ...
The Chivalric Turn: Conduct and Hegemony in Europe before 1300

A. Lehmann, Le rôle de la femme dans l'histoire de France au moyen àge (Paris, 1952); E. Power, Medieval Women, ed. ... See historiographical critiques in S. Mosher Stuard, 'Fashion's Captives: Medieval Women in French Historiography, ...
The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272: A Social Transformation

'The Transformation of Medieval Gwent', in Gwent County History ii, The Age of Marcher Lords, c.1075–1536, eds R.A. Griffiths, A. Hopkins and R. Howell (Cardiff, 2008), 1–45. —— 'La cour seigneuriale en Angleterre auxxiie–xiiie siècles' ...
The Birth of Nobility: Constructing Aristocracy in England and France, 900-1300

E. Prestage (London, 1928), 29¥33. 7 Gautier, La chevalerie, p.782: aUne. nation que aime avant tout le confort est une nation perdue«. Ibid., 31¥34, 88. Sainte-Palaye too tried to define laws of chivalry, but he based it on the ...
The Chivalric Turn: Conduct and Hegemony in Europe before 1300

Every mortal can then claim the self-same noble origin (nobile germen). So why do you boast of family and ancestors? ... F. Delrieux and F. Kayser (2 vols, Chambéry, 2010), 2: 13–27. For the Aristotelian influence on Neckam's analyses, ...
Almost Perfekt: How Sweden Works And What We Can Learn From It

Torkel Omnell, 'Dokument: Buchts kamp för Ikea', nsd.se, 15 November 2006 On the 'Anglo-Saxon model', see the succinct definition given by Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist at the Financial Times:
The Reign of King Stephen: 1135-1154

This particular argument of Davis is criticised by J. Bradbury, 'The early years of the reign of Stephen', in England in the Twelfth Century, ed. D. Williams (Woodbridge, 1990), 27-8, on the grounds that clemency was the better policy ...
Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity

Patton, C. 1999. ... Phillipson, M. and Fisher, C. 1999. Seeing, becoming drawing, in I. Heywood and B. ... London: Routledge, 45-63. Rojek, C. 1993. Ways of Escape. London: Routledge. Rose, G. 1993. Feminism and Geography: The Limits ...
The Birth of Nobility: Constructing Aristocracy in England and France, 900-1300

... but to all laymen, it leaves the impression that a knight could be a model of Christian virtue if only he would love justice, protect the Church and embrace continence.109 In the later 1120s Bernard of Cluny was much more pointed, ...
Leisure/tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

Crouch , D. ( 1994 ) “ Home , escape and identity : rural cultures and sustainable tourism , ” in B. Bramwell and B. ... Hastrup , K. and Olwig , K. F. ( 1997 ) “ Introduction , " in K. F. Olwig and K Hastrup ( eds ) , Siting Culture ...
Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250

THE LOST LETTERS his is a book about everyday life in early thirteenth-century England, as revealed in the correspondence of people from all classes of society, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls.
Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies including: *Disneyland, Paris *tourism in sacred landscapes *leisure practices in cyberspace ...
The Image of Aristocracy: In Britain, 1000-1300

A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a British, rather than Anglocentric, view - looking at the penetration of Welsh and Scottish society by Anglo-French ideas of aristocracy.
The Reign of King Stephen: 1135-1154

David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere.
The Chivalric Turn: Conduct and Hegemony in Europe Before 1300

The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it.
Medieval Britain, c.1000-1500

Though England was the emerging super-state in the medieval British Isles, its story is not the only one Britain can offer; there is a wider context of Britain in Europe, and the story of this period is one of how European Latin and French ...
The Beaumont Twins: The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century

This book combines a study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England.