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The Livery Collar in Late Medieval England and Wales - Politics, Identity and Affinity (Hardcover)
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The Livery Collar in Late Medieval England and Wales - Politics, Identity and Affinity (Hardcover)
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First full examination of the medieval livery collar, form,
function, and significance. The livery collar had a pervasive
presence in late-medieval England. Worn about the neck to denote
service to a lord, references to the collar abound in government
records, contemporary chronicles and correspondence, and many
depictions of the collar can be found in illuminated manuscripts
and on church monuments. From the fifteenth century the collar was
regarded as a powerful symbol of royal power, the artefact
associating the recipient with the king; italso played a
significant function in the construction and articulation of
political and other group identities during the period. This first
book-length study of the livery collar examines its cultural and
political significance from the late fourteenth to the early
sixteenth centuries, in particular between 1450 and 1500, the
period associated with the Wars of the Roses. It explores the
principal meanings bestowed on the collar, considers the itemin its
various political contexts, and places the collar within the sphere
of medieval identity construction. It also investigates the motives
which lay behind its distribution, shedding new light on the nature
and understanding of royal power at the time.
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