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Fourteenth Century England X (Hardcover)
Gwilym Dodd; Contributions by Alan Kissane, Alison K. McHardy, Anna M. Duch, Bridget Wells-Furby, …
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The fruits of new research on the politics, society and culture of
England in the fourteenth century. Drawing on a diverse range of
documentary, literary and material evidence, the essays collected
here consider a wide range of important issues for the period.
Political and institutional history is addressed in essays on
Edward II's personal expenditure and the development and workings
of parliament, including an analysis of those neglected
"parliamentarians" of the period, the parliamentary proctors.
Important new insights into the social history of the fourteenth
century are provided by chapters on marriage and the accumulation
of lay estates, the brokerage of royal wardship and the important
and difficult subject of sexual violence towards under-age girls.
Another chapter considers the enormously costly and complex task of
feeding and supplying medieval armies across the "long" fourteenth
century, while two final pieces offer important new insights into
the material culture of the age, focusing in turn on St Stephen's
Chapel, Westminster, and the phenomenon of royal reburial. Richly
textured with personal and local detail, these new studies provide
numerous insights into the lives of great and small in this
fascinating period ofmedieval history. GWILYM DODD is Associate
Professor of Medieval History at the University of Nottingham.
Contributors: Elizabeth Biggs, Anna M. Duch, Bridget Wells-Furby,
Alan Kissane, Ilana Krug, Alison K.McHardy, Seymour Phillips, Laura
Tompkins, Kathryn Warner.
An examination of the community of a major late medieval town: its
economy, its customs, and its relationship with the Crown. The
later middle ages saw provincial towns and their civic community
contending with a number of economic, social and religious problems
- including famine and the plague. This book, using Lincoln - then
a significant urban centre- as a case study, investigates how such
a community dealt with these issues, looking in particular at the
links between town and central government, and how they influenced
local customs and practices. The author then argues, with an
assessment of industry, trade and civic finance, that towns such as
Lincoln were often well placed to react to changes in the economy,
by actively forging closer links with the crown both as suppliers
of goods and servicesand as financiers. The book goes on to explore
the foundations of civic government and the emergence of local
guilds and chantries, showing that each reflected broader trends in
local civic culture, being influenced in only a minor way by the
Black Death, an event traditionally seen as a major turning point
in late medieval urban history. Alan Kissane gained his PhD from
the University of Nottingham.
First full analysis of the rich records surviving from medieval
English town courts. Town courts were the principal institution
responsible for the delivery of justice and urban administration
within medieval towns. Their records survive in large quantities in
archives across England, and they provide an unparalleled insight
into the lives and work of thousands of men and women who lived in
these towns. The court rolls tell us much about the practice of law
at the local level within towns, as well as yielding a broad range
of perspectiveson the economy, society and administration of towns.
This volume is the first collection dedicated to the analysis of
town courts and their records. Through a wide range of approaches,
it offers new interpretations of the role that these courts played.
It also demonstrates the wide range of uses to which court records
can be put to in order to more fully understand medieval urban
society. The volume draws on the records of a considerable number
of towns and their courts across England, including London, York,
Norwich, Lincoln, Nottingham, Lynn, Chester, Bromsgrove and
Shipston-on-Stour. RICHARD GODDARD is Associate Professor in the
Department of History at the University of Nottingham; TERESA
PHIPPS is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at
Swansea University. Contributors: Christopher Dyer, Richard
Goddard, Jeremy Goldberg, Alan Kissane, Maryanne Kowaleski,
JaneLaughton, Esther Liberman Cuenca, Susan Maddock, Teresa Phipps,
Samantha Sagui
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