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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Epistolae Academicae Oxon
Author: University of Oxford
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Category : Students
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Category : Students
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Oxford Historical Society
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Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Sir John Tiptoft: 'Butcher of England'
Author: Peter Spring
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 147389011X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535
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John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is arguably the most intriguing, controversial and possibly misunderstood figure of the Wars of the Roses period. Politically adept, he occupied a string of important offices, first under the Lancastrian Henry VI and then the Yorkist Edward IV.A man of action, he held commands on both and sea, in England, Ireland and Wales.As Constable of England he acted as Edwards enforcer and earned the sobriquet Butcher of England for his beheadings and impalements. Yet he was also an outstanding Renaissance scholar who studied at Oxford, Padua and Ferrara, a collector of books and patron. This, in conjunction with his political actions, makes him a proto-Machiavellian Prince.Peter Spring also looks beyond the Earls public life to glean insights into the man himself, concluding that the available information generally reveals an attractive personality. He presents a balanced reappraisal, seeing him, as did many contemporary Europeans and some fellow countrymen, as a man of great intellect and capability who did not shirk the hard tasks imposed by a merciless age.Worcesters execution for the application of Roman law, lampooned as the laws of Padua, demonstrated the danger of indentification with continental influences in an England increasingly defining itselfthrough common law, Parliament, and soon religionagainst Europe. The contemporary denigration of his character by little Englander chroniclers reflected a deepening antipathy towards the cosmopolitan a recurring trait in the English character perhaps re-emerging with Brexit.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 147389011X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535
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John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is arguably the most intriguing, controversial and possibly misunderstood figure of the Wars of the Roses period. Politically adept, he occupied a string of important offices, first under the Lancastrian Henry VI and then the Yorkist Edward IV.A man of action, he held commands on both and sea, in England, Ireland and Wales.As Constable of England he acted as Edwards enforcer and earned the sobriquet Butcher of England for his beheadings and impalements. Yet he was also an outstanding Renaissance scholar who studied at Oxford, Padua and Ferrara, a collector of books and patron. This, in conjunction with his political actions, makes him a proto-Machiavellian Prince.Peter Spring also looks beyond the Earls public life to glean insights into the man himself, concluding that the available information generally reveals an attractive personality. He presents a balanced reappraisal, seeing him, as did many contemporary Europeans and some fellow countrymen, as a man of great intellect and capability who did not shirk the hard tasks imposed by a merciless age.Worcesters execution for the application of Roman law, lampooned as the laws of Padua, demonstrated the danger of indentification with continental influences in an England increasingly defining itselfthrough common law, Parliament, and soon religionagainst Europe. The contemporary denigration of his character by little Englander chroniclers reflected a deepening antipathy towards the cosmopolitan a recurring trait in the English character perhaps re-emerging with Brexit.
The Flemings in Oxford
Author: Stanley Hughes Le Fleming
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th–15th Centuries
Author: John A.F. Thomson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100094915X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control of the state, and by responses to England's one and only heretical movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual disengagement from a cross-Channel political world was followed by civil war and the eventual rise of a strong Tudor monarchy. As this volume demonstrates in a number of ways, the impact of many of these macro changes was felt across the British Isles, not just in England. But the studies presented here frequently explore major change through the experience of the middling sort: the gentry active in local government, the English merchants and Scottish immigrants making important life choices in major cities, or the industrious clerics charged with the routine administration of the church. By looking at the case studies of these men in more detail, we begin to appreciate that even in this age of great change, there were profound continuities which carried through into the sixteenth century. Along the way, too, new light is thrown on the authorship, date and redaction of texts which continue to shape our understanding of late medieval British history.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100094915X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control of the state, and by responses to England's one and only heretical movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual disengagement from a cross-Channel political world was followed by civil war and the eventual rise of a strong Tudor monarchy. As this volume demonstrates in a number of ways, the impact of many of these macro changes was felt across the British Isles, not just in England. But the studies presented here frequently explore major change through the experience of the middling sort: the gentry active in local government, the English merchants and Scottish immigrants making important life choices in major cities, or the industrious clerics charged with the routine administration of the church. By looking at the case studies of these men in more detail, we begin to appreciate that even in this age of great change, there were profound continuities which carried through into the sixteenth century. Along the way, too, new light is thrown on the authorship, date and redaction of texts which continue to shape our understanding of late medieval British history.
The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695: Indexes
Author: Anthony à Wood
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Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Studies in Oxford History
Author: John Richard Green
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Category : Oxford
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Oxford
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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"Survey of the Anitiquities of the City of Oxford,"
Author: Anthony à Wood
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Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The Oxford Deeds of Balliol College
Author: Balliol College (University of Oxford)
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Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Early Science in Oxford ...
Author: Robert Theodore Gunther
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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