Medieval Britain

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came strong...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of identity in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Yet this was an age, too, of growing definition of Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural tradition.

约翰·吉林厄姆，伦敦大学伦敦经济学院的退休教授，1965至1998年间一直在该大学教授历史，研究方向主要是中世纪历史，最近的两部著述分别为《理查一世》和《12世纪的英国人》。

拉尔夫·A. 格里菲思，威尔士斯旺西大学教授，研究中世纪历史，其著述包括《国王亨利六世的统治》以及与J. 坎农合著的《牛津插图版英国帝制史》等。