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Authored by a unique combination of university academics and
heritage professionals, this book offers new perspectives on
journeys made by Henry VIII and other monarchs, their political and
social impact and the logistics required in undertaking such trips.
It explores the performance of kingship and queenship by itinerant
monarchs, investigating how, by a variety of means, they engaged
and interacted with their subjects, and the practical and symbolic
functions associated with these activities. Moving beyond the
purely English experience, it provides a European dimension by
comparing progresses in England and France. Royal marriage and the
royal progress share common features which are considered through
an analysis of the trans-European journeys made by future spouses,
notably Anne of Cleves. Also, the book reveals the significance of
the art and architecture of houses and palaces, and how the
celebrated meeting of English and French kings at the Field of
Cloth of Gold in 1520 was part of a wider diplomatic performance
full of symbolism including the exchange of gifts and socialising
between the two royal courts. Drawing on contemporary art, material
culture and surviving buildings, the book will be of interest to
all who enjoy the intrigue and splendour of sixteenth-century
courts.
This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod's
wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The
seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on
governance and political resistance, culture, religion and
identity.
This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod's
wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The
seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on
governance and political resistance, culture, religion and
identity.
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Historians on John Gower
Stephen Rigby; As told to Sian Echard; Contributions by Stephen Rigby, Sian Echard, Martha Carlin, …
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John Gower's poetry offers an important and immediate response to
the turbulent events of his day. The essays here examine his life
and his works from an historical angle, bringing out fresh new
insights. The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black
Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition
of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical
doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. These social, political
and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by
preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by
poets, including Chaucer and Langland. Above all, though, it is in
the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement
with contemporary events. Yet, surprisingly, few historians have
examined Gower's responses to these events or have studied the
broader moral and philosophical outlook which he used to make sense
of them. Here, a number of eminent medievalists seek to demonstrate
what historians can add to our understanding of Gower's poetry and
his ideas about society (the nobility and chivalry, the peasants
and the 1381 revolt, urban life and the law), the Church (the
clergy, papacy, Lollardy, monasticism, and the friars) gender
(masculinity and women and power), politics (political theory and
the deposition of Richard II) and science and astronomy. The book
also offers an important reassessment of Gower's biography based on
newly-discovered primary sources. STEPHEN RIGBY is Emeritus
Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University
of Manchester; SIAN ECHARD is Professor of English, University of
British Columbia. Contributors: Mark Bailey, Michael Bennett,
Martha Carlin, James Davis, Seb Falk, Christopher Fletcher, David
Green, David Lepine, Martin Heale, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Musson,
Stephen Rigby, Jens Röhrkasten.
Exploring the boundaries of the law as they existed in medieval and
early modern times and as they have been perceived by historians,
this volume offers a wide ranging insight into a key aspect of
European society. Alongside, and inexorably linked with, the
ecclesiastical establishment, the law was one of the main social
bonds that shaped and directed the interactions of day-to-day life.
Posing fascinating conceptual and methodological questions that
challenge existing perceptions of the parameters of the law, the
essays in this book look especially at the gender divide and
conflicts of jurisdiction within an historical context. In addition
to seeking to understand the discrete categories into which types
of law and legal rules are sometimes placed, consideration is given
to the traversing of boundaries, to the overlaps between
jurisdictions, and between custom(s) and law(s). In so doing it
shows how law has been artificially compartmentalised by historians
and lawyers alike, and how existing perceptions have been
conditioned by particular approaches to the sources. It also
reveals in certain case studies how the sources themselves (and
attitudes towards them) have determined the limitations of
historical enterprise. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to
the subject, the contributors demonstrate the fruitfulness of
examining the interfaces of apparently diverse disciplines. Making
fresh connections across subject areas, they examine, for example,
the role of geography in determining litigation strategies, how the
law interacted with social and theological issues and how fact and
fiction could intertwine to promote notions of justice and public
order. The main focus of the volume is upon England, but includes
useful comparative papers concerning France, Flanders and Sweden.
The contributors are a mixture of young and established scholars
from Europe and North America offering a new and revisionist
perspective on the operation of law in the medieval and early
modern periods.
A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign.
Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period
of English history, but to date he has been relatively neglected in
comparison to other fourteenth and fifteenth-century kings. This
book offers a significant re-appraisal of a much maligned monarch
and his historical importance, making use of the latest empirical
research and revisionist theories, and concentrating on people and
personalities, perceptions and expectations, rather than dry
constitutional analysis. Papers consider both the institutional and
the personal facets of Edward II's life and rule: his sexual
reputation, the royal court, the role of the king's household
knights, the nature of law and parliament in the reign, and
England's relations with Ireland and Europe. Contributors: J.S.
HAMILTON, W.M. ORMROD, IAN MORTIMER, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ALISTAIR
TEBBIT, W.R. CHILDS, PAUL DRYBURGH, ANTHONY MUSSON, GWILYM DODD,
ALISON MARSHALL, MARTYN LAWRENCE, SEYMOUR PHILLIPS.
New research into petitions and petitioning in the middle ages,
illuminating aspects of contemporary law and justice. The
mechanics, politics and culture of petitioning in the middle ages
are examined in this innovative collection. In addition to
important and wide-ranging examinations of the ancient world and
the medieval papacy, it focuses particularly on petitions to the
English crown in the later middle ages, drawing on a major
collection of documents made newly accessible to research in the
National Archives. A series of studies explores the political
contexts of petitioning, the broad geographical and social range of
petitioners, and the fascinating "worm's-eye" view of medieval life
that is uniquely offered by petitions themselves; and particular
attention is given to the performative qualities of petitioning and
its place in the culture of royal intercession. With their vivid
new insights into judicial conventions and the legal creativity
spawned by political crisis, these papers provide a closely
integrated assessment of current scholarship and new research on
these most fascinating and revealing of medieval social texts.
CONTRIBUTORS: W. MARK ORMROD, GWILYM DODD, SERENA CONNOLLY, BARBARA
BOMBI, PATRICK ZUTSHI, PAUL BRAND, GUILHEM PEPIN, ANTHONY MUSSON,
SIMON J. HARRIS, SHELAGH A. SNEDDON, DAVID CROOK
New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy
and state. The essays collected here celebrate mark the
distinguished career of Professor W. Mark Ormrod, reflecting the
vibrancy and range of his scholarship on the structures,
personalities and culture of ruling late medieval England.
Encompassing political, administrative, Church and social history,
the volume focusses on three main themes: monarchy, state and
political culture. For the first, it explores Edward III's
reactions to the deaths of his kinfolk and cases of political
defamation across the fourteenth century. The workings of the
"state" are examined through studies of tax and ecclesiastical
records, the Court of Chivalry, fifteenth-century legislation, and
the working practicesof the privy seal clerk, Thomas Hoccleve.
Finally, separate discussions of collegiate statutes and the
household ordinances of Cecily, duchess of York consider the
political culture of regulation and code-making.
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Historians on John Gower (Hardcover)
Stephen Rigby; As told to Sian Echard; Contributions by Anthony Musson, Christopher Fletcher, David Green, …
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R2,914
Discovery Miles 29 140
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John Gower's poetry offers an important and immediate response to
the turbulent events of his day. The essays here examine his life
and his works from an historical angle, bringing out fresh new
insights. The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black
Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition
of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical
doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. These social, political
and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by
preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by
poets, including Chaucer and Langland. Above all, though, it is in
the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement
with contemporary events. Yet, surprisingly, few historians have
examined Gower's responses to these events or have studied the
broader moral and philosophical outlook which he used to make sense
of them. Here, a number of eminent medievalists seek to demonstrate
what historians can add to our understanding of Gower's poetry and
his ideas about society (the nobility and chivalry, the peasants
and the 1381 revolt, urban life and the law), the Church (the
clergy, papacy, Lollardy, monasticism, and the friars) gender
(masculinity and women and power), politics (political theory and
the deposition of Richard II) and science and astronomy. The book
also offers an important reassessment of Gower's biography based on
newly-discovered primary sources. STEPHEN RIGBY is Emeritus
Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University
of Manchester; SIAN ECHARD is Professor of English, University of
British Columbia. Contributors: Mark Bailey, Michael Bennett,
Martha Carlin, James Davis, Seb Falk, Christopher Fletcher, David
Green, David Lepine, Martin Heale, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Musson,
Stephen Rigby, Jens Roehrkasten.
An important new contribution to the emerging field of late
medieval supplicatory cultures. Late medieval petitions, providing
unique insights into medieval social and legal history, have
attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent years. This
wide-ranging collection brings two approaches into dialogue with
each other: the study of royal justice and secular petitions
presented to the English crown, and the study of papal justice,
canon law and ecclesiastical petitions (emphasising the
international dimension of petitioning as a legal device exercising
authority across Latin Christendom). In so doing, it crosses the
traditional demarcation lines between secular and ecclesiastical
systems of justice, of particular importance, given the
participation by many litigantsand legislators in both of those
legal spheres. A major focus is the mechanics of petitioning - who
were the intermediaries in this process, and what were the
"strategies of persuasion" they employed? The essays also
re-examine the relationship between petitioners and their advisors,
and the specific legal, rhetorical and linguistic choices they made
in the composition of these texts. In so doing, the volume makes an
important new contribution to theemerging field of late medieval
supplicatory cultures. THOMAS W. SMITH is a Leverhulme Early Career
Fellow at the University of Leeds; HELEN KILLICK is a post-doctoral
researcher at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading.
A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal
institutions of the Middle Ages. The wars waged by the English in
France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries led to the
need for judicial agencies which could deal with disputes that
arose on land and sea, beyond the reach of indigenous laws. This
led to the jurisdictional development of the Courts of Chivalry and
Admiralty, presiding over respectively heraldic and maritime
disputes. They were thus of considerable importance in the Middle
Ages; but they have attracted comparatively little scholarly
attention. The essays here examine their officers, proceedings and
the wider cultural and political context in which they had
jurisdiction and operated in later medieval Western Europe. They
reveal similarities in personnel, institutions and outlook, as well
as in the issues confronting rulers in territories across Europe.
They also demonstrate how assertions of sovereignty and challenges
to judicial competence were inextricably linked to complex
political agendas; and that both military and maritime law were
international in reach because they were underpinned by
trans-national customs and the principles and procedures of
Continental civil law. Combininglaw with military and maritime
history, and discussing the art and material culture of chivalric
disputes as well as their associated heraldry, the volume provides
fresh new insights into an important area of medieval life and
culture. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal
Palaces; NIGEL RAMSAY is Honorary Senior Research Associate in the
Department of History at University College London. Contributors:
Andrew Ayton, Richard Barber, John Ford, Laurent Hablot, Thomas K.
Heeboll-Holm, Julian Luxford, Ralph Moffat, Philip Morgan, Bertrand
Schnerb, Anne F. Sutton, Lorenzo Tanzini.
This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal
sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in
the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485) can be studied.
Drawing on the wealth of archival material and an array of
contemporary literary texts, it guides readers towards an
understanding of prevailing notions of law and justice and
expectations of the law and legal institutions. Tensions are shown
emerging between theoretical ideals of justice and the practical
realities of administering the law during an era profoundly
affected by periodic bouts of war, political in-fighting, social
dislocation and economic disaster. Introductions and notes provide
both the specific and wider legal, social and political contexts in
addition to offering an overview of the existing secondary
literature and historiographical trends. This collection affords a
valuable insight into the character of medieval governance as well
as revealing the complex nexus of interests, attitudes and
relationships prevailing in society during the later Middle Ages.
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Offering an important new perspective on medieval political, legal,
and social history in England, Anthony Musson examines how medieval
people at all social levels thought about law, justice, politics,
and their role in society. He provides a history of judicial
developments in the 13th and 14th centuries, while interweaving
within each chapter a special focus on different facets of legal
culture and experience. This illuminating approach reveals a
comprehensive picture of two centuries worth of tremendous social
change.
Papers on aspects of the growth of royal government during the
century. The size and jurisdiction of English royal government
underwent sustained development in the thirteenth century, an
understanding of which is crucial to a balanced view of medieval
English society. The papers here follow three central themes: the
development of central government, law and justice, and the crown
and the localities. Examined within this framework are bureaucracy
and enrolment under John and his contemporaries; the Royal
Chancery; the adaptation of the Exchequer in response to the
rapidly changing demands of the crown; the introduction of a
licensing system for mortmain alienations; the administration of
local justice; women as sheriffs; and a Nottinghamshire study
examining the tensions between the role of the king as manorial
lord and as monarch. Contributors: NICK BARRATT, PAUL R. BRAND,
DAVID CARPENTER, DAVID CROOK, ANTHONY MUSSON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT,
LOUISE WILKINSON
Biennial volumes of new research on an eventful century coloured by
the Plantagenet dynasty. The fourteenth century is one of the most
turbulent and compelling periods of English history, reflected in
the vitality of the current scholarship devoted to it. This new
series provides a forum for the most recent research intothe
political, social, and ecclesiastical history of the century, and
complements earlier series from Boydell & Brewer, Anglo-Norman
Studies and Thirteenth Century England, which taken together offer
a complete overview of debate on the middle ages. The substantial
and significant studies in this volume have a particular focus on
political history, including examinations of Edward II's charter
witness lists and the consolidation of HenryIV's power in his early
years; other topics include the Black Death and law-making,
castle-building and memorials, war and chivalry in the
Scalacronica, and architecture in the courts of Edward III and
Charles V of France. Contributors: JEFFREY HAMILTON, ANDY KING, ROY
M. HAINES, ANTHONY MUSSON, GLORIA J. BETCHER, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE,
CHRISTOPHER PHILPOTTS, CHARLES COULSON, MARY WHITELEY, NICHOLAS
ROGERS, LYNDA DENNISON, DOUGLAS BIGGS NIGEL SAUL is Professor of
Medieval History, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,
University of London.
The annual volume of new work on all aspects of the fourteenth
century, including England's overseas interests, from English and
American scholars. New research on aspects of the politics and
culture of fourteenth-century England includes close studies of
political events such as the quarrel of Edward II and Thomas of
Lancaster and Bishop Despenser's Crusade, fresh considerations of
the political and cultural context of English royal tombs and the
Wilton Diptych, a number of important analyses of regional politics
and regional culture in Bristol, East Anglia and Winchester - all
with implications forthe bigger picture - and a discussion of late
medieval French attitudes to the deposition of Richard II; that and
studies of the war with France and the Bishop of Norwich's attack
on Flanders carry the focus beyond the shores ofEngland.
Contributors: MARK ARVANIGIAN, JANE BEAL, KELLY DEVRIES, ALASTAIR
DUNN, DAVID GREEN, ANDY KING, CHRISTIAN D. LIDDY, LISA MONNA,
ANTHONY MUSSON, MARK PAGE, DAVID M. PALLISER, CRAIG D. TAYLOR, KRIS
TOWSON,
Studies on the cultural, social, political and economic history of
the age. This collection presents new and original research on the
long thirteenth century, from c.1180-c.1330, including England's
relations with Wales and Ireland. The range of topics embraces
royal authority and its assertion and limitation, the great royal
inquests and judicial reform of the reign of Edward I, royal
manipulation of noble families, weakening royal administration at
the end of the century, sex and love in the upper levels of
society, monastic/layrelations, and the administration of building
projects. Contributors: RUTH BLAKELY, NICOLA COLDSTREAM, BETH
HARTLAND, CHARLES INSLEY, ANDY KING, SAMANTHA LETTERS, JOHN
MADDICOTT, MARC MORRIS, ANTHONY MUSSON, DAVIDA. POSTLES, MICHAEL
PRESTWICH, SANDRA G. RABAN, BJORN WEILER, JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE,
ROBERT WRIGHT. THE EDITORS are all in the Department of History,
University of Durham.
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The Age of Edward III (Hardcover)
J.S. Bothwell; Contributions by Andrew Ayton, Anthony Musson, Caroline Shenton, Clifford J. Rogers, …
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Fresh perspectives on many facets - political, social, legal,
military, and diplomatic - of the reign of one of the most
important late medieval kings. With a sharp focus on high politics,
this is a cohesive and exemplary collection of rewarding
scholarship. HISTORY The studies in this book add colour and depth
to the reign of one of the most important and fascinating of late
medieval kings. New research addresses received ideas about Edward
III's kingship, including the way he came to power and how he kept
it; his use of nobility and sergeants-at-arms [his political and
military elite]; hispreoccupation with justice; military campaigns
in the Hundred Years War; and the propaganda and packaging of his
rule, both in terms of his English throne and his claims to France.
The collection is drawn together in a critical introduction written
by Chris Given-Wilson and Michael Prestwich. Contributors: CAROLINE
SHENTON, JAMES BOTHWELL, DAVID GREEN, ANTHONY MUSSON, RICHARD
PARTINGTON, ANDREW AYTON, W.M. ORMROD, CRAIG TAYLOR, A.K. McHARDY,
CLIFFORD J. ROGERS, MICHAEL BENNETT.
The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of
the law in the middle ages. This book represents the first
systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in
the Middle Ages. Up until now historians have used medieval legal
records to demonstrate the operation of legal rules, the
functioning of legal institutions and the development of the legal
profession, but they have rarely considered the attitudes that
arose as a result of the processes of law. The papers in this
volume investigate the way expectations of the law were generated,
captured, revealed or replayed for posterity in medieval Europe in
jurisprudential reasoning, the activity of charter writing, the
framing of definitions of "liberty", the concern for historical
justifications, and the phraseology of various forms of legislation
and chancery bills. Attitudes and perceptions are also considered
with regard to the active role played by rulers of European states
in law-giving and in the organisation of legal institutions.
Contextualising some of the developments in medieval law, this
volume not only enables generalisations to be made about
expectations of the law, but also highlights the existence of
national and supra-national similarities as well as differences
arising in medieval Europe. Contributors: RICHARD W. KAEUPER, D.
HEIRBAUT, M. KORPIOLA, JUDITH EVERARD, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, JULIA C.
CRICK, H. SUMMERSON, G. SEABOURNE, G. DODD, T. HASKETT, ANTHONY
MUSSON, C. STEBBINGS, P. TUCKER
Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of
jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the
fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research.
Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the
contributors explore the approaches, methods and sources that
together form the basis of their research and shed light on the
complexities of researching into the history of the law. By
exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal
sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material
and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and
comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and
dynamism of legal history research.
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