This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age and evokes what was distinctive and interesting about their personality and achievement. The biographies are arranged in a broadly chronological rather than alphabetical sequence so that the reader may easily browse from one contemporary to the next. The index, with its many cross-references, reveals further linkages between contemporaries. Each volume is a portrait of an age, presenting history in a biographical form which complements the conventional approach.

 

This is volume 2 in Whos Who in British History .

This book is aimed at the following children: secondary school , university .

There are 400 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 1999 by Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd .

Christopher Tyerman is a Research Fellow and lecturer at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and won the Society's Alexander Prize Medal in 1981. His previously published work, England and the Crusades 1095-1588 (University of Chicago Press, 1988), has now appeared in paperback. He has also contributed reviews, articles and essays to various publications.