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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.
This original study examines how members of the English medieval
nobility and their families fell, usually dramatically and often
violently, from position and power in the period 1075-1455. It also
considers what those who survived this fall did while out of favour
and what some families did to attempt to revive their fortunes. For
those noble dynasties that managed to survive such downturns, there
was usually an attempt to return to position, if not power - though
the road was never easy and, this book argues, increasingly
involved sustained efforts by wives, mothers and daughters. Based
on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and
other interdisciplinary sources, Falling from grace spans almost
four centuries, from the Earls' Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of
the Wars of the Roses, and will be of considerable interest to both
academic and general audiences. -- .
This original study examines how members of the English medieval
nobility and their families fell, usually dramatically and often
violently, from position and power in the period 1075-1455. It also
considers what those who survived this fall did while out of favour
and what some families did to attempt to revive their fortunes. For
those noble dynasties that managed to survive such downturns, there
was usually an attempt to return to position, if not power - though
the road was never easy and, this book argues, increasingly
involved sustained efforts by wives, mothers and daughters. Based
on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and
other interdisciplinary sources, Falling from grace spans almost
four centuries, from the Earls' Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of
the Wars of the Roses, and will be of considerable interest to both
academic and general audiences. -- .
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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.
An interdisciplinary approach to a crucial part of the systems of
medieval authority and governance. In the medieval world, what
happened when a figure of recognised authority was absent? What
terminology, principles and solutions of proxy authority were
developed and adopted? Did these solutions differ and change over
time depending on whether the absence was short or long and caused
by issues of incapacity, minority, disputed succession, geography
or elective absenteeism? Did the models of proxy authority adopted
by ruling dynasties and large institutions influence the proxy
choices of lesser authority? The circumstances and consequences of
absentee authority, a major aspect of the systems of medieval
power, are the focus of this volume. Ranging across the realms of
medieval Europe (but with a focus upon the British Isles and
France), its essays embrace a wide variety of experience - royal,
parliamentary, conciliar, magnatial, military, ecclesiastical
(papal to parochial), burghal, household, minoror major, male or
female, exiled, captive or infirm - and explore not merely
political developments, but the dynastic, diplomatic, financial,
ideological, religious and cultural ramifications of such episodes.
Frederique Lachaud is Professor of medieval history at the
Universite de Lorraine, France; Michael Penman is Senior Lecturer
in history at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Contributors:
James Bothwell Michelle Bubenicek, Leonard Dauphant , Bruno
Dumezil, Laurent Hablot, Torsten Hiltmann, Tom Horler-Underwood,
Robert Houghton, Olivier de Laborderie, Frederique Lachaud, Hans
Jacob Orning, Michael Penman. Norman Reid
Fourteenth Century England has quickly established for itself a
deserved reputation for its scope and scholarship and for admirably
filling a gap in the publication of medieval studies. HISTORY This
collection represents the fruits of new research, by both
established and young scholars, on the politics, society and
culture of England and its dependencies in the fourteenth century.
Drawing on a diverse range of documentary, literary and material
evidence, the studies offer a range of methods, from micro-history
and prosopography to the study of institutions, texts and events.
The early fourteenth century provides a particular focus of
interest, with studies contributing new reflections on the
personnel of parliament, the household of Edward II, the politics
of Edward III's minority, and reactions to the great famine of
1315-22 and the Black Death of 1348-9. The wars withScotland and
France give the opportunity for significant new assessments of
international diplomacy, the role of the mariner in the logistics
of war, English loyalties in Gascony and the pious practices of
medieval knights. Richlytextured with personal and local detail,
these new studies provide numerous insights into the lives of great
and small in this tumultuous period of medieval history. W. Mark
Ormrod is Professor of Medieval History atthe University of York.
Contributors: Benoit Grevin, Alison K. McHardy, J.S. Hamilton,
Guilhem Pepin, Eliza Hartrich, Phil Bradford, J.S. Bothwell, Craig
Lambert, Andrew Ayton, Graham St John, Christopher Phillpotts
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