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Wood, Charles Tuttle was born on October 29, 1933 in St. Paul. Son of Harold Eaton and Margaret (Frisbie) Wood.
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Joan of Arc and Richard III are prominent historical figures, but the myths surrounding them have always obscured their accomplishments. This study clarifies their historical contributions by combining traditional biography with original material on their social and political backgrounds.
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Joan of Arc and Richard III loom large in the histories of their countries, but the myths surrounding them have always obscured just who they were and what they hoped to accomplish. In this book, medieval historian Charles Wood brings these fascinating figures to life through an original combination of traditional biography and wide-ranging discussion of the political and social world in which they lived. Wood draws on a range of unusual sources--from art and legal codes to chronicles and lives of saints--to present a new picture of medieval people and their concerns. Focusing on topics often neglected by other historians, he includes lively discussions of royal adultery scandals, child-kings and the problems they posed, and earlier people and crises that helped to shape the culture of sex and sainthood that was profoundly that of the Middle Ages. In so doing, he clarifies the historical contributions of Richard and Joan, and sheds new light on the political, social, and religious forces that shaped medieval government and made France and England such widely different countries.
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Joan of Arc and Richard III loom large in the histories of their countries, but the myths surrounding them have always obscured just who they were and what they hoped to accomplish. In this book, medieval historian Charles Wood brings these fascinating figures to life through an original combination of traditional biography and wide-ranging discussion of the political and social world in which they lived. Wood draws on a range of unusual sources--from art and legal codes to chronicles and lives of saints--to present a new picture of medieval people and their concerns. Focusing on topics often neglected by other historians, he includes lively discussions of royal adultery scandals, child-kings and the problems they posed, and earlier people and crises that helped to shape the culture of sex and sainthood that was profoundly that of the Middle Ages. In so doing, he clarifies the historical contributions of Richard and Joan, and sheds new light on the political, social, and religious forces that shaped medieval government and made France and England such widely different countries.
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(First published as THE AGE OF CHIVALRY) A lively and insightful interpretation of the Middle Ages.
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The Middle Ages have often been thought of as little more than a thousand years of barbarism and superstition separating the grandeur of Rome from the glories of the Renaissance. In 'The Age of Chivalry, however, Charles T. Wood shows that the medieval period was also a time of exuberant vitality, an era whose manners and morals did much to shape the outlook of the modern world. After a prologue setting forth the formation of medieval Europe, Professor Wood depicts the human situation at around the year 1000, a time when men were the prisoners rather than the masters of their environment. Europe at that time, he writes, was no place for the weak and tender-hearted; "torment and tragedy were the constant companions of rich and poor alike". But with the revolution in agriculture, the development of a money economy, and the consequent rise of the towns, there arose among all classes a buoyant enthusiasm; and with the appearance of chivalry and romantic love, "Europe had arrived at a new level of civilization, one possessing a cultural coherence unknown since the fall of Rome". In the thirteenth century, the political face of Europe began to take on features that would last well into the modern world, and a constitutional framework was created for the more peaceful settlement of political and social disputes and of the conflict between religious and secular values. During the later Middle Ages, however, the catastrophically savage and brutal period of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War, "the buoyant optimism that had characterized the long period of expansion gave way to feelings of dread and impending doom from which wild revels and senseless display seemed to provide the only release". Economic depression gripped the age, and "religion itself seemed to crumble, thus adding to the woes that political and economic distress had already engendered." With the emergence of new attitudes in the fifteenth century--attitudes that brought the age of chivalry...
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Wood, Charles Tuttle was born on October 29, 1933 in St. Paul. Son of Harold Eaton and Margaret (Frisbie) Wood.
AB, Harvard, 1955; AM, Harvard, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1962.
Investment analyst, trader, Harold E. Wood & Company, St. Paul, 1955-1956; teaching fellow general education, Harvard, 1959-1961; instructor history, Harvard, 1961-1964; member of faculty, Dartmouth, 1964-1996; professor of history, Dartmouth, 1971-1980; Daniel Webster professor of history, Dartmouth, 1980-1991; Daniel Webster professor of history and comparative literature, Dartmouth, 1991-1996; Daniel Webster professor emeritus, Dartmouth, since 1996; department chairman history, Dartmouth, 1976-1979; department chairman comparative literature, Dartmouth, 1977. Visiting Keeney professor of history Brown U., 1992-1993. Visiting professor U. College London, 1996.
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(Joan of Arc and Richard III loom large in the histories o...)
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(The Middle Ages have often been thought of as little more...)
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((First published as THE AGE OF CHIVALRY) A lively and ins...)
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Chairman Dresden Board School Directors, 1972-1974. Fellow Medieval Academy American (treasurer 1989-2001, finance committee 1979-2001, council 1985-1987). Member American History Association (chairman nominating committee 1977, Adams prize committee 1976-1978), Conference British Studies, Society for French History Studies, New Hampshire School Boards Association (Second vice president 1974-1975), New England Medieval Conference (president 1978-1979), American Society Legal History, Phi Beta Kappa (president Alpha of New Hampshire 1997-1999).
Clubs: St. Botolph (Boston).
Married Susan Danielson, July 9, 1955. Children: Lucy Eaton, Timothy Walker, Martha Augusta, Mary Frisbie.