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This vivid and pioneering study illuminates the different roles
played in late medieval society by noblewomen - the most
substantial group of women to survive as individuals in medieval
documents. They emerge (despite limited political opportunities) as
figures of consequence themselves in a landowning society through
estate management in their husbands' frequent absences, and through
hospitality, patronage and affinity.
Essays exploring the potential of the Inquisitions post mortem to
shed important new light on the medieval world. The Inquisitions
post mortem (IPMs) are a truly wonderful source for many different
aspects of late medieval countryside and rural life. They have
recently been made digitally accessible and interrogatable by the
Mappingthe Medieval Countryside project, and the first fruits of
these developments are presented here. The chapters examine IPMs in
connection with the landscape and topography of England, in
particular markets and fairs and mills;and consider the utility of
proofs of age for everyday life on such topics as the Church,
retaining, and the wine trade. MICHAEL HICKS is Emeritus Professor
of Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Contributors:
Katie A. Clarke, William S. Deller, Paul Dryburgh, Christopher
Dyer, Janette Garrett, Michael Hicks, Matthew Holford, Gordon
McKelvie, Stephen Mileson, Simon Payling, Matthew Tompkins,
Jennifer Ward.
The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a
valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the
medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of
'nobility', its relationship with the late Roman world, its
acquisition and exercise of power, its association with military
obligation, and its transformation into a more or less willing
instrument of royal government. Embracing regions as diverse as
England (before and after the Norman Conquest), Italy, the Iberian
peninsula, France, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Romano-German
empire, it ranges over the whole medieval period from the fifth to
the early sixteenth century. Contributors: STUART AIRLIE, MARTIN
AURELL, T. N. BISSON, PAUL FOURACRE, PIOTR GORECKI, MARTIN H.
JONES, STEINAR IMSEN, REGINE LE JAN, JANET N. NELSON, TIMOTHY A
REUTER, JANE ROBERTS, MARIA JOAO VIOLANTE BRANCO, JENNIFER C. WARD
Edition, with full explanatory notes and introduction, of financial
records from Elizabeth de Burgh, one of the most important women of
fourteenth-century England. Noble widows were powerful figures in
the later Middle Ages, running their own estates and exercising
considerable influence. Elizabeth de Burgh (1295-1360), daughter of
one of the most powerful earls in England and cousin of Edward II,
lost her third husband at the age of twenty-six, and spent the rest
of her life as a widow. In 1317, having inherited one-third of the
lands of her brother, Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and
Hertford, who had been killed at Bannockburn three years earlier,
she established herself at Clare, which became her main
administrative centre for her estates in East Anglia, Dorset and
South Wales. She enjoyed a noble lifestyle, was lavish in her
hospitality to family and friends, entertaining Edward III in 1340,
and she displayed her piety through her patronage of religious
houses and her foundation of Clare College in Cambridge. Her life
and activities are portrayed in vivid detail in her household
accounts and her will, selected extracts from which are provided in
this volume. Altogether, 102 accounts of various types survive from
the years of her widowhood, and the records here have been chosento
illustrate the great range of information provided, throwing light
on Clare castle itself and its furnishings, daily life and
religious practice, visitors, food and drink, livery and retainers,
travel, and business. They paintof a vivid picture of the life and
work of a noble family in the fourteenth century. Jennifer Ward
taught and researched medieval and regional history at Goldsmiths
College, University of London, until her retirement.
AEthelwine, Pre-Conquest Sheriff; Alliances of AElfgar of Mercia;
Castle Studies since 1850; Charles the Bald's Fortified Bridges;
Clares and the Crown; Coastal Salt Production; Hydrographic and
Ship Hydrodynamic Aspects of the Invasion; Leland and Historians;
Monks in the World: Gundulf of Rochester; Obtaining Benefices in
12c E. Anglia; St Pancras Priory, Lewes; Slavery; Wace and Warfare.
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