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A detailed investigation of the place of women in
thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to
reappraise orthodox opinion. This book offers the first regional
study of women in thirteenth-century England, making pioneering use
of charters, chronicles, government records and some of the
earliest manorial court rolls to examine the interaction of gender,
status and life-cycle in shaping women's experiences in
Lincolnshire. The author investigates the lives of noblewomen,
gentlewomen, townswomen, peasant women, criminal women and women
religious from a variety of angles. Not onlydoes she consider how
far women were partners alongside men, especially within the
family, but she also explores whether they might have been both at
once constrained and yet, to an extent, empowered by religious and
biological ideas about gender difference which found expression in
inheritance practices and the common law. Valuable light on the
avenues for political influence open to elite women is shed through
case studies of Nicholaa de la Haye (d. 1230), sheriff of Lincoln,
Hawise de Quency (d. 1243), countess of Lincoln, and Margaret de
Lacy (d. 1266), countess of Lincoln. The book also addresses
women's roles within the rural and urban labour markets before the
Black Death. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies,
University of Lincoln.
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal
government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.
The years between 1258 and 1276 comprise one of the most
influential periods in the Middle Ages in Britain. This turbulent
decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between Henry III and his
barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before
England eventually descended into civil war, a significant
proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its
governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and
administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna
Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of
parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its
radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de
Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a
political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name.
The essays here draw on material available for the first time via
the completion of the project to calendar all the Fine Rolls of
Henry III; these rolls comprise the last series of records of the
English Chancery from that period to become readily available in a
convenient form, thereby transforming accessto several important
fields of research, including financial, legal, political and
social issues. The volume covers topics including the evidential
value of the fine rolls themselves and their wider significance for
the English polity, developments in legal and financial
administration, the roles of women and the church, and the
fascinating details of the development of the office of escheator.
Related or parallel developments in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are
also dealt with, giving a broader British dimension.
The true importance of cathedrals during the Anglo-Norman period is
here brought out, through an examination of the most important
aspects of their history. Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical
(and physical) landscape of the British Isles and Normandy in the
middle ages; yet, in comparison with the history of monasteries,
theirs has received significantly less attention. This volume helps
to redress the balance by examining major themes in their
development between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. These
include the composition, life, corporate identity and memory of
cathedral communities; the relationships, sometimes supportive,
sometimes conflicting, that they had with kings (e.g. King John),
aristocracies, and neighbouring urban and religious communities;
the importance of cathedrals as centres of lordship and patronage;
their role in promoting and utilizing saints' cults (e.g. that of
St Thomas Becket); episcopal relations; and the involvement of
cathedrals in religious and political conflicts, and in the
settlement of disputes. A critical introduction locates medieval
cathedrals in space and time, and against a backdrop of wider
ecclesiastical change in the period. Contributors: Paul Dalton,
Charles Insley, Louise J. Wilkinson, Ann Williams, C.P. Lewis,
RichardAllen, John Reuben Davies, Thomas Roche, Stephen Marritt,
Michael Staunton, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Paul Webster, Nicholas
Vincent
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal
government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.
The years between 1258 and 1276 comprise one of the most
influential periods in the Middle Ages in Britain. This turbulent
decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between Henry III and his
barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before
England eventually descended into civil war, a significant
proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its
governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and
administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna
Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of
parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its
radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de
Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a
political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name.
The essays here draw on material available for the first time via
the completion of the project to calendar all the Fine Rolls of
Henry III; these rolls comprise the last series of records of the
English Chancery from that period to become readily available in a
convenient form, thereby transforming accessto several important
fields of research, including financial, legal, political and
social issues. The volume covers topics including the evidential
value of the fine rolls themselves and their wider significance for
the English polity, developments in legal and financial
administration, the roles of women and the church, and the
fascinating details of the development of the office of escheator.
Related or parallel developments in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are
also dealt with, giving a broader British dimension. LOUISE J.
WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln;
DAVID CROOK is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of
Notthingham. Contributors: Nick Barratt, Paul Brand, David
Carpenter, David Crook, Paul Dryburgh, Beth Hartland, Philippa
Hoskin, Charles Insley, Adrian Jobson, Tony Moore, Alice Taylor,
Nicholas Vincent, Scott Waugh, Louise Wilkinson
Exciting fresh perspectives on Edward I as man, king and
administrator. The reign of Edward I was one of the most important
of medieval England, but the king's activities and achievements
have not always received the full attention they deserve. The
essays collected here offer fresh insights into Edward's own
personality as well as developments in law, governance, war and
culture. Edward the man emerges in chapters on his early life, his
piety and his family, while the administrator king is discussed in
evaluations of his twogreat ministers, his handling of the crucial
issue of law and order and the way he managed the realm from abroad
through his correspondence. Edward's nobles, both in England and
Scotland, naturally appear as vital to understanding the reign,
while his rule is set in a British and European context. Overall,
the book aims to move the debate on the reign beyond K.B.
McFarlane's hugely influential judgement that "Edward I preferred
masterfulness to the arts of political management", by highlighting
his skills -- and failings -- as a politician and manager.
Edition with English translation of a document shedding huge light
on one of the most important figures of her time. The household
roll of Eleanor, countess of Leicester and Pembroke, offers a
fascinating insight into one of the most important domestic
establishments in England during the Second Barons' War of 1263-7.
As the wife of Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, the leading
figure within the baronial regime, and the sister and aunt of King
Henry III and the Lord Edward, respectively, Countess Eleanor
occupied a position at the heart of English political affairs up
to, and after, her husband's death at the Battle of Evesham on 4
August 1265. This volume is a critical edition of the extant
thirteen membranes of Countess Eleanor's household account roll for
that momentous year, 1265 (British Library, Additional MS 8877).
Presented here in the original Latin and with an accompanying
English translation, Countess Eleanor's roll includes her diet
account for the period from 19 February to 29 August 1265, listing
her visitors and the different items of food and drink consumed on
each day at each castle at which she was resident, including
Wallingford, Odiham and Dover. The roll also incorporates a
"wardrobe journal", covering the period up until 1 October 1265,
detailing expenditure on the purchase and repair of household
furnishings, goods and utensils, on clothing and wages, on the
Montfortian war effort in the South, and on messengers travelling
to and from the countess, Earl Simon, her sons and associates, in
the months before and after the Battle of Evesham.
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
A detailed investigation of the place of women in
thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to
reappraise orthodox opinion. This book offers the first regional
study of women in thirteenth-century England, making pioneering use
of charters, chronicles, government records and some of the
earliest manorial court rolls to examine the interaction of gender,
status and life-cycle in shaping women's experiences in
Lincolnshire. The author investigates the lives of noblewomen,
gentlewomen, townswomen, peasant women, criminal women and women
religious from a variety of angles. Not onlydoes she consider how
far women were partners alongside men, especially within the
family, but she also explores whether they might have been both at
once constrained and yet, to an extent, empowered by religious and
biological ideas about gender difference which found expression in
inheritance practices and the common law. Valuable light on the
avenues for political influence open to elite women is shed through
case studies of Nicholaa de la Haye (d. 1230), sheriff of Lincoln,
Hawise de Quency (d. 1243), countess of Lincoln, and Margaret de
Lacy (d. 1266), countess of Lincoln. The book also addresses
women's roles within the rural and urban labour markets before the
Black Death. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies,
University of Lincoln,
The Middle Ages (800-1400) were a rich and vibrant period in the
history of European culture, society, and intellectual thought.
Emerging state powers, economic expansion and contraction, the
growing influence of the Christian Church, and demographic change
all influenced the ideals and realities of childhood and family
life. Movements for Church reform brought the spiritual and moral
concerns of the laity into sharper focus, profoundly shaping
attitudes towards gender and sexuality and how these might be
applied to family roles. At the same time, the growth of trade, the
spread of literacy and learning, shifting patterns of settlement,
and the process of urbanization transformed childhood. This volume
explores the ideas and practices which underpinned contemporary
perceptions of childhood in the medieval West, and illuminates the
enduring importance of the family as a dynamic economic, political,
and social unit. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the
Middle Ages presents essays on family relationships, community,
economy, geography and the environment, education, life cycle, the
state, faith and religion, health and science, and world contexts.
This book deals with the remarkable life of a powerful and fiery
woman at the heart of the turbulent Barons' Wars. As sister of
Henry III and aunt of the future Edward I, Eleanor de Montfort was
at the heart of the bloody conflict between the Crown and the
English barons. At Lewes in 1264 Simon de Montfort captured the
king and secured control of royal government. A woman of fiery
nature, Eleanor worked tirelessly in supporting her husband's
cause. She assumed responsibility for the care of the royal
prisoners and she regularly dispatched luxurious gifts to Henry III
and the Lord Edward. But the family's political fortunes were
shattered at the battle of Evesham in August 1265 where Simon de
Montfort was killed. The newly-widowed Eleanor rose to her role as
matriarch of her family, sending her surviving sons - and the
family treasure - overseas to France, negotiating the surrender of
Dover Castle and securing her own safe departure from the realm.
The last ten years of her life were spent in the Dominican convent
at Montargis. Drawing on chronicles, letters and public records
this book reconstructs the narrative of Eleanor's remarkable life.
This collection explores the ways in which the late medieval and
early modern queen was a pivotal, if often controversial, figure.
Contents include: R. Allinson (Oxford), Letters of Elizabeth I and
James VI . S. Bell (U New Brunswick), George Buchanan reading Mary,
Queen of Scots . N. Bishai (King's College London), Execution of
Anne Boleyn . E. Bronfen & B. Straumann (U Z rich), The two
bodies of Elizabeth I . K. Bundesen (U Nottingham), Elizabeth I's
family at court . L. Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam U), Elizabeth I on
stage and age . J. Johnson (U London), Elizabeth of York . S.
Mamujee (U London), Queenship and sexuality in Lylian drama . K.
Mudan (Linacre, Oxford), S.L. M ller (Freie Universit t, Berlin),
Representing the body of Mary Tudor . L. Oakley-Brown (Lancaster
U), Shakespeare's Tamora and the failure of queenship . P. de Pando
(U Seville), The Spanish image of Anne Boleyn . A. Whitelock (U
London), Mary Tudor and L.J. Wilkinson (Canterbury Christ Church
U), The marriage of Isabella of England, Henry III's sister.
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