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Peasants and historians is an examination of historical discussion
of the medieval English peasantry. In this book, the first such
study of its kind, the author traces the development of historical
research aimed at exploring the nature of peasant society. In
separate chapters, the author examines the three main defining
themes which have been applied to the medieval economy in general
including change affecting the medieval peasantry. In subsequent
chapters debates in relation to demography, family structure, women
in rural society, and the nature of village community are each
considered in turn. A final chapter on peasant culture also
suggests areas of development and, potentially at least, future
directions in research and writing. Offering an informed grounding
in the main areas of historical writing in this area, it will be of
interest to researchers as well as to those coming new to the
topic, including undergraduate and postgraduate students. -- .
This book presents key texts relating to the political and broader
socio-economic history of the reign of Edward II. Drawing on a wide
range of narrative sources, especially the extensive chronicle
accounts of the reign, the editors introduce other important
material including parliamentary rolls, charters, court records and
accounts. Brought together, this gathering of sources allows the
reader to navigate this troubled and eventful period in English
medieval history. The reign of Edward II is organised
chronologically, guiding the reader from the moment of Edward II's
accession in 1307 until his removal from office in 1327 and his
supposed death in the same year. Thematic chapters throughout
address such key themes as royal finances and the state of the
early fourteenth-century economy, the role of parliament, and
political and military engagement with Scotland. In the
Introduction, the editors survey previous historical work directed
at Edward II and outline the range of source types available to the
historian of the reign. -- .
Edward II’s reign presents the dramatic narrative of a wilful
king who faced baronial resistance and suffered military failures
in both Scotland and France before losing his throne and his life.
At the same time, it is a reign of considerable institutional and
ideological interest. This book offers both a concise history and
essential primary source materials for students. Featuring a range
of translations, some original and others difficult to find, it
brings together scattered evidence and allows comparisons to be
made between different accounts. Overall, it sheds valuable light
on a significant period in English history, during which the
position of the king became both stronger, through increased
wealth, and weaker, through the greater need for consent and the
precedent of the deposition. -- .
Making History is a comprehensive exploration of the practice of history, historical tradition and the theories which surround it. Encompassing a huge diversity of influences, the book is organised around the following themes: * Crises and Transformations: An assessment of the most significant movements in historical scholarship in the last century, including the Annales and Bielefeld Schools, and the development of social and economic history * Theories into History: An investigation into the penetration of theory into historical practice, examining the social movements and ideologies which propelled the change, including Marxism, post-modernism and gender history * Moving beyond History: An enquiry into the increasingly interdisciplinary trends in scholarship, revealing the interconnections between history, archaeology, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, and literature; scholars from non-historical disciplines have contributed to provide a unique approach to a controversial debate * Beyond the Academy: An exploration of the changes in historical practice with reference to film, amateur history, heritage, popular culture, and New Labour.
Essays reflecting the most recent research on the thirteenth
century, with a timely focus on the Treaty of Paris. Additional
editors: Karen Stoeber, Bjoern Weiler The articles collected here
bear witness to the continued and wide interest in England and its
neighbours in the "long" thirteenth century. The volume includes
papers on the high politics of the thirteenth century,
international relations, the administrative and governmental
structures of medieval England and aspects of the wider societal
and political context of the period. A particular theme of the
papers is Anglo-French political history, and especially the ways
in which that relationship was reflected in the diplomatic and
dynastic arrangements associated with the Treaty of Paris, the
750th anniversary of which fell during 2009, a fact celebrated in
this collection of essays and the Paris conference at which the
original papers were first delivered. Contributors: Caroline Burt,
Julie E. Kanter, Julia Barrow, Benjamin L. Wild, WilliamMarx,
Caroline Dunn, Adrian Jobson, Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, Tony K.
Moore, David A. Trotter, William Chester Jordan, Daniel Power,
Florent Lenegre
Fruits of the most recent research into the "long" thirteenth
century. The twin themes of authority and resistance are the focus
of this volume, explored through topics such as landholding and
secular politics, the church and religious orders and contemporary
imagery and its reception. Together, thepapers combine to
illustrate the variety of ways in which historians of the "long"
thirteenth century are able to examine the practices and norms
through which individuals and institutions sought to establish
their authority, andthe ways in which these were open to challenge.
JANET BURTON is Professor of Medieval History at University of
Wales: Trinity Saint David; PHILLIPP SCHOFIELD is Professor of
Medieval History at Aberystwyth University; BJORN WEILER is
Professor of History at Aberystwyth University. Contributors: Helen
Birkett, Richard Cassidy, Judith Collard, Peter Coss, Ian Forrest,
Philippa Hoskin, Jennifer Jahner, Melissa Julian Jones, Fergus
Oakes, John Sabapathy, Sita Steckel.
Fruits of the most recent research on the thirteenth century in
both England and Europe. The articles collected here reflect the
continued and wide interest in England and its neighbours in the
years between Magna Carta and the Black Death, with many of them
particularly seeking to set England in its European context.There
are three main strands to the volume. The first is the social
dimension of power, and the norms and practice of politics:
attention is drawn to the variety of roles open to members of the
clergy, but also peasants and townsmen, and the populace at large.
Several chapters explore the manifestations and instruments of
social identity, such as the seals used by the leading elites of
thirteenth-century London, and the marriage practices of the
Englisharistocracy. The third main focus is the uses of the past.
Matthew Paris, the most famous chronicler of the period, receives
due attention, in particular his changing attitude towards the
monarch, but the Vita Edwardi Secundi's portrayal of Thomas of
Lancaster and the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut are also considered.
Janet Burton is Professor of Medieval History at University of
Wales: Trinity Saint David; Phillipp Schofield is Professor of
Medieval History at Aberystwyth University; Bjoern Weiler is
Professor of History at Aberystwyth University. Contributors: J.R.
Maddicott, Phillipp Schofield, Harmony Dewez, John McEwan, Joerg
Peltzer, Karen Stoeber, Olga Cecilia Mendez Gonzalez, Sophie
Ambler, Joe Creamer, Lars Kjaer, Andrew Spencer, Julia Marvin,
Olivier de Laborderie
Peasants and historians is an examination of historical discussion
of the medieval English peasantry. In this book, the first such
study of its kind, the author traces the development of historical
research aimed at exploring the nature of peasant society. In
separate chapters, the author examines the three main defining
themes which have been applied to the medieval economy in general
including change affecting the medieval peasantry. In subsequent
chapters debates in relation to demography, family structure, women
in rural society, and the nature of village community are each
considered in turn. A final chapter on peasant culture also
suggests areas of development and, potentially at least, future
directions in research and writing. Offering an informed grounding
in the main areas of historical writing in this area, it will be of
interest to researchers as well as to those coming new to the
topic, including undergraduate and postgraduate students. -- .
Making History is a comprehensive exploration of the practice of history, historical tradition and the theories which surround it. Encompassing a huge diversity of influences, the book is organised around the following themes: * Crises and Transformations: An assessment of the most significant movements in historical scholarship in the last century, including the Annales and Bielefeld Schools, and the development of social and economic history * Theories into History: An investigation into the penetration of theory into historical practice, examining the social movements and ideologies which propelled the change, including Marxism, post-modernism and gender history * Moving beyond History: An enquiry into the increasingly interdisciplinary trends in scholarship, revealing the interconnections between history, archaeology, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, and literature; scholars from non-historical disciplines have contributed to provide a unique approach to a controversial debate * Beyond the Academy: An exploration of the changes in historical practice with reference to film, amateur history, heritage, popular culture, and New Labour.
Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals
and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring
counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context
of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also
offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its
periphery by addressing a variety of themes in terms of the insight
that seals can offer the historian. Though the present study
suggests important regional distinctions in the take-up of seals in
medieval Wales, it is also clear that seal usage increased from the
later twelfth century and spread widely in Welsh society,
especially in those parts of Wales neighbouring England or where
there had been an early English incursion. Through a series of
chapters, the authors examine the ways in which seals can shed
light on the legal, administrative, social and economic history of
the period in Wales and its border region. Seals provide unique
insights into the choices individuals, men and women, made in
representing themselves to the wider world, and this issue is
examined closely. Supported by almost 100 images gathered by the
project team, the volume is of great interest to those working on
seals, their motifs, their use and developments in their usage over
the high and later Middle Ages.
[The series is] a necessary addition for any scholar working in
this field. NOTTINGHAM MEDIEVAL STUDIES Editors: Janet Burton,
Bjoern Weiler, Philipp Schofield, Karen Stoeber The thirteenth
century brought the British Isles into ever closer contact with one
another, and with medieval Europe as a whole. This international
dimensionforms a dominant theme of this collection: it features
essays on England's relations with the papal court; the adoption of
European cultural norms in Scotland; Welsh society and crusading;
English landholding in Ireland; and dealings between the kings of
England and Navarre. Other papers, on ritual crucifixion, concepts
of office and ethcis, and the English royal itinerary, show that
the thirteenth century was also a period of profound political and
cultural change, witnessing the transformation of legal and
economic structures [represented here by case studies of noblewomen
and their burial customs; and a prolonged inheritance dispute in
Laxton]. This volume testifies to the continuing vitality and [with
contributors from three continents and six countries] international
nature of scholarship on medieval Britain; and moves beyond the
Channel to make an important contribution to the history of
medieval Europes. Contributors: ROBERT STACEY, FREDERIQUE LACHAUD,
STEPHEN CHURCH, CHRISTIAN HILLEN, JESSICA NELSON, MATTHEW HAMMOND,
KATHRYN HURLOCK, NICHOLAS VINCENT, ADAM DAVIES, HUI LIU, EMMA
CAVELL, DAVID CROOK, BETH HARTLAND
The essays in this volume look at the mechanics of debt, the legal
process, and its economics in early medieval England. Beneath the
elevated plane of high politics, affairs of the Crown and
international finance of the Middle Ages, lurked huge numbers of
credit and debt transactions. The transactions and those who
conducted them moved between social and economic worlds; merchants
and traders, clerics and Jews, extending and receiving credit to
and from their social superiors, equals and inferiors. These papers
build upon an established tradition of approaches to the study of
credit and debt in the Middle Ages, looking at the wealth of
historical material, from registries of debt and legal records, to
parliamentary roles and statues, merchant accounts, rents and
leases, wills and probates. Four of the six papers in this volume
were given at a conference on 'Credit and debt in medieval and
early modern England' held in Oxford in 2000. The other two papers
draw upon new important postgraduate theses. Contents: Introduction
(Phillipp Schofield) ; Aspects of the law of debt, 1189-1307 (Paul
Brand) ; Christian and Jewish lending patterns and financial
dealings during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (Robin R.
Mundill) ; Some aspects of the business of statutory debt
registries, 1283-1307 (Christopher McNall) ; The English parochial
clergy as investors and creditors in the first half of the
fourteenth century (Pamela Nightingale) ; Access to credit in the
medieval English countryside (Phillipp Schofield) ; Creditors and
debtors at Oakington, Cottenham and Dry Drayton (Cambridgeshire),
1291-1350 (Chris Briggs) .
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