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Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the
languages of English and French in medieval Britain. With
co-editors: CAROLYN COLLETTE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, LINNE MOONEY, AD
PUTTER, and DAVID TROTTER England was more widely and enduringly
francophone in the Middle Ages than our now standard accounts of
its history, culture and language allow. The French of England
(also known as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-French) is the language of
nearly a thousand literary texts, of much administration, and of
many professions and occupations. English literary, linguistic and
documentary history is deeply interwoven both with a continually
evolving spectrum of Frenches used within and outside the realm,
and cannot be fully grasped in isolation. The essays in this volume
open up andbegin writing a new cultural history focussed on, but
not confined to, the presence and interactions of francophone
speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the
eleventh to the later fifteenth centuries. They return us to a
newly-alive, multi-vocal, complexly multi-cultural medieval
England, in which the use of French and its interrelations with
English and other languages involve many diverse groups of people.
The volume's size testifies to the significance of England's
francophone culture, while its chronological range shows the need
for revision across the whole span of our existing narratives about
medieval English linguistic and cultural history.. Contributors:
HENRY BAINTON, MICHAEL BENNETT, JULIA BOFFEY, RICHARD BRITNELL,
CAROLYN COLLETTE, GODFRIED CROENEN, HELEN DEEMING, STEPHANIE
DOWNES, MARTHA DRIVER, MONICA H. GREEN, RICHARD INGHAM, REBECCA
JUNE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, PIERRE KUNSTMANN, FRANCOISE H. M. LE
SAUX, SERGE LUSIGNAN, TIM WILLIAM MACHAN, JULIA MARVIN, BRIAN
MERRILEES, RUTH NISSE, MARILYN OLIVA, W. MARK ORMROD, HEATHER
PAGAN, LAURIE POSTLEWATE, JEAN-PASCAL POUZET, AD PUTTER,
GEOFFRECTOR, DELBERT RUSSELL, THEA SUMMERFIELD, ANDREW TAYLOR,
DAVID TROTTER, ELIZABETH M. TYLER, NICHOLAS WATSON, JOCELYN
WOGAN-BROWNE, ROBERT F. YEAGER
First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem. The
late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a
debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity
(Waster); it ranges widely over a number of major issues in the
political life of England during Edward III's reign. This book sets
out to re-date the poem from the 1350s to the 1360s, and in so
doing to question whether its principal message really revolves (as
so much earlier scholarship has insisted) around the state of
public order and the costs of warfare in the 1350s. Instead, it
proposes that the poem echoes debates about Edward III's ability to
maintain concord between the members of his household, to manage
the extravagance in clothing that prompted the sumptuary laws of
1363, and to run his peace-time finances of the 1360s in such a way
as to guarantee the solvency of the crown. Drawing extensively on
the records of parliament and on contemporary chronicles, this
volume sets Winner and Waster within the wider context of other
complaint literature of the fourteenth century, and characterizes
it as one of the most politically - and socially - engaged works of
the period.
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
This book provides a vivid and accessible history of
first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages.
Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming
from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the
kingdom, settling in the countryside as well as in towns, taking
work as agricultural labourers, skilled craftspeople and
professionals. Often encouraged and welcomed, sometimes vilified
and victimised, immigrants were always on the social and political
agenda. Immigrant England is the first book to address a phenomenon
and issue of vital concern to English people at the time, to their
descendants living in the United Kingdom today and to all those
interested in the historical dimensions of immigration policy,
attitudes to ethnicity and race and concepts of Englishness and
Britishness. -- .
A landmark biography of the charismatic king beloved of
fourteenth-century England Edward III (1312-1377) was the most
successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty
years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave
threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black
Death. Revered by his subjects as a chivalric dynamo, he initiated
the Hundred Years' War and gloriously led his men into battle
against the Scots and the French. In this illuminating biography,
W. Mark Ormrod takes a deeper look at Edward to reveal the man
beneath the military muscle. What emerges is Edward's clear sense
of his duty to rebuild the prestige of the Crown, and through
military gains and shifting diplomacy, to secure a legacy for
posterity. New details of the splendor of Edward's court, lavish
national celebrations, and innovative use of imagery establish the
king's instinctive understanding of the bond between ruler and
people. With fresh emphasis on how Edward's rule was affected by
his family relationships-including his roles as traumatized son,
loving husband, and dutiful father-Ormrod gives a valuable new
dimension to our understanding of this remarkable warrior king.
This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive
consideration of the part played by women in the workings and
business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages.
Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women's
access to the highest court of medieval England. Women were active
supplicants to the Crown in Parliament, and sometimes appeared
there in person to prosecute cases or make political demands. It
explores the positions of women of varying rank, from queens to
peasants, vis-a-vis this male institution, where they very
occasionally appeared in person but were more usually represented
by written petitions. A full analysis of these petitions and of the
official records of parliament reveals that there were a number of
issues on which women consistently pressed for changes in the law
and its administration, and where the Commons and the Crown either
championed or refused to support reform. Such is the concentration
of petitions on the subjects of dower and rape that these may
justifiably be termed 'women's issues' in the medieval Parliament.
A wide variety of texts (from chronicles to Chaucer) studied for
evidence of medieval attitudes towards the processes of change as
they affected individuals at all points of their lives. Rites of
passage is a term and concept more used than considered. Here, for
the first time, its implications are applied and tested in the
field of medieval studies: medievalists from a range of disciplines
consider the varioustheoretical models - folklorist,
anthropological, psychoanalytical - that can be used to analyse
cultures of transition in the history and literature of
fourteenth-century Europe. Ranging over a wide variety of texts,
from chronicles to romances, from priests' manuals to courtesy
books, from state records to the writings of Chaucer, Gower and
Froissart, the contributors identify and analyse medieval attitudes
to the process of change in lifecycle, status,gender and power. A
substantive introduction by Miri Rubin draws together the ideas and
materials discussed in the book to illustrate the relevance and
importance of anthropology to the study of medieval culture.
Contributors: JOEL BURDEN, PATRICIA CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS, JANE
GILBERT, SARAH KAY, MARK ORMROD, HELEN PHILLIPS, MIRI RUBIN, SHARON
WELLS. NICOLA F. McDONALD is Lecturer in Medieval Literature, the
late W.M ORMROD was Professor of Medieval History, University of
York.
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Fourteenth Century England XI (Hardcover)
David Green, Christopher Given-Wilson; Contributions by Bridget Wells-Furby, Cary J Nederman, James Bothwell, …
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The fruits of new research on the politics, society and culture of
England in the fourteenth century. The essays collected here engage
with many of the most important themes and subjects of the period.
In addition to addressing matters of kingship and changing theories
of power, they tackle questions concerning loyalty and rebellion at
the centre of authority and on its margins; the role of law, both
domestic and international; the nature of memory - legal,
historical and fabricated; and the relationship between the
Plantagenets and the rulers of those nations and territories over
which England claimed dominion. In so doing, the collection offers
important new insights into political and social developments at
times of major turmoil, including Edward I's war with Scotland, the
deposition of Edward II, and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, while
also exploring the mechanisms used to ensure peace and the
smooth-running of a kingdom during a time of immense change. DAVID
GREEN is Lecturer in British Studies and History, Harlaxton
College; CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON is Professor of Late Medieval History,
University of St Andrews. Contributors: James Bothwell, S.W.
Dempsey, Matthew Hefferan, Samuel Lane, Cary J. Nederman, W. Mark
Ormrod, Bridget Wells-Furby
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Time in the Medieval World (Hardcover)
Chris Humphrey, W. Mark Ormrod; Contributions by Ad Putter, Christopher Humphrey, Deborah Deliyannis, …
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A look at the competing notions of time in the middle ages, from
the spiritual - death, the Last Judgement - to the practical -
lawyers' calculations, clocks and calendars. By exploring some of
the more important senses of time which were in circulation in the
medieval world, scholars from a wide range of disciplines trace
competing definitions and modes of temporality in the middle ages,
explainingtheir influence upon life and culture. The issues
explored include anachronism as a feature in earlier senses of
time, perceptions of death and of the Last Judgement, time in
literary narratives and in music, constructions of timeas used in
the professions, and original work on the particular systems and
technologies which were used for the keeping of time, such as
clocks and calendars. Contributors: PAUL BRAND, PETER BURKE, MARY
J. CARRUTHERS, DEBORAH DELIYANNIS, CHRISTOPHER HUMPHREY, ROBERT
MARKUS, AD PUTTER, HOWARD WILLIAMS.
Attitudes towards `labour', in the wake of the Black Death, shown
to range from early protest literature to repressive
authoritarianism. At the very moment that the image of the honest
labourer seemed to reach its apogee in the Luttrell Psalter or, a
few decades later, in Piers Plowman, the dominant culture of the
landed interests was increasingly suspiciousof what it described as
the idleness, greed and arrogance of the lower orders. Labour was
one of the central issues during the fourteenth century: the
natural disasters and profound social changes of the period created
not merelya "problem" of labour, but also new ways of discussing
and (supposedly) solving that problem. These studies engage with
the contrasting and often competing discourses which emerged,
ranging from the critical social awareness of some of the early
fourteenth-century protest literature to the repressive
authoritarianism of the new national employment laws that were
enforced in the wake of the Black Death, and were expressed in
counter-cultures of resistanceand dissent. JAMES BOTHWELL and
P.J.P. GOLDBERG lecture in history, and W.M. ORMROD is Professor of
History, at the University of York. Contributors: CORDELIA BEATTIE,
CHRISTOPHER DYER, RICHARD K. EMMERSON,P.J.P. GOLDBERG, KATE GILES,
CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON, STEPHEN KNIGHT, DEREK PEARSALL, SARAH REES
JONES.
This book provides a vivid and accessible history of
first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages.
Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming
from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the
kingdom, settling in the countryside as well as in towns, taking
work as agricultural labourers, skilled craftspeople and
professionals. Often encouraged and welcomed, sometimes vilified
and victimised, immigrants were always on the social and political
agenda. Immigrant England is the first book to address a phenomenon
and issue of vital concern to English people at the time, to their
descendants living in the United Kingdom today and to all those
interested in the historical dimensions of immigration policy,
attitudes to ethnicity and race and concepts of Englishness and
Britishness. -- .
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,
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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.
Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the
languages of English and French in medieval Britain. With
co-editors: CAROLYN COLLETTE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, LINNE MOONEY, AD
PUTTER, and DAVID TROTTER England was more widely and enduringly
francophone in the middle ages than many standard accounts of its
history, culture and language allow. The development of French in
England, whether known as "Anglo-Norman" or "Anglo-French", is
deeply interwoven both with medieval English and with the spectrum
of Frenches, insular and continental, used withinand outside the
realm. As the language of nearly a thousand literary texts, of much
administration, and of many professions and occupations, the French
of England needs more attention than it has so far received. The
essaysin this volume form a new cultural history focussed round,
but not confined to, the presence and interactions of French
speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the
eleventh to the later fifteenth century.Taking the French of
England into account does not simply add new material to our
existing narratives of medieval English culture, but changes them,
restoring a multi-vocal, multi-cultural medieval England in all its
complexity, and opening up fresh agendas for study and exploration.
Contributors: HENRY BAINTON, MICHAEL BENNETT, JULIA BOFFEY, RICHARD
BRITNELL, CAROLYN COLLETTE, GODFRIED CROENEN, HELEN DEEMING,
STEPHANIE DOWNES, MARTHA DRIVER, MONICA H. GREEN, RICHARD INGHAM,
REBECCA JUNE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, PIERRE KUNSTMANN, FRANCOISE H. M.
LE SAUX, SERGE LUSIGNAN, TIM WILLIAM MACHAN, JULIA MARVIN, BRIAN
MERRILEES, RUTH NISSE, MARILYN OLIVA, W. MARK ORMROD, HEATHER
PAGAN, LAURIE POSTLEWATE, JEAN-PASCAL POUZET, AD PUTTER, GEOFF
RECTOR, DELBERT RUSSELL, THEA SUMMERFIELD, ANDREW TAYLOR, DAVID
TROTTER, ELIZABETH M. TYLER, NICHOLAS WATSON, JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE,
ROBERT F. YEAGER
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
The fourteenth century witnessed the emergence of the parliamentary
common petition, a statement of grievance and request for reform
that provided the basis for much of the royal legislation of the
period. In the process of compiling the common petitions, much
proposed business was set aside and not committed to the permanent
record of the parliament roll. A significant body of that 'lost'
material has now been recovered and is published here for the first
time, providing a fresh understanding of the full range of
preoccupations of the medieval House of Commons as it emerged as
the mouthpiece of the political community before the king.
Alongside questions over the rights of the church, the corruption
of officials and the processes of royal justice, the commons also
expressed deep concerns over the many political, economic and
social concerns of the period, including the consequences of war,
plague and revolt.
What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This
comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English
life and society in the period 1200-1500. Opening with a survey of
historiographical and demographic debates, the book then explores
the central themes of later medieval society, including the social
hierarchy, life in towns and the countryside, religious belief, and
forms of individual and collective identity. Clustered around these
themes a series of authoritative essays develop our understanding
of other important social and cultural features of the period,
including the experience of war, work, law and order, youth and old
age, ritual, travel and transport, and the development of writing
and reading. Written in an accessible and engaging manner by an
international team of leading scholars, this book is indispensable
both as an introduction for students and as a resource for
specialists.
What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This
comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English
life and society in the period 1200-1500. Opening with a survey of
historiographical and demographic debates, the book then explores
the central themes of later medieval society, including the social
hierarchy, life in towns and the countryside, religious belief, and
forms of individual and collective identity. Clustered around these
themes a series of authoritative essays develop our understanding
of other important social and cultural features of the period,
including the experience of war, work, law and order, youth and old
age, ritual, travel and transport, and the development of writing
and reading. Written in an accessible and engaging manner by an
international team of leading scholars, this book is indispensable
both as an introduction for students and as a resource for
specialists.
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