Author: Michael J. Braddick
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526148226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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This is an important collection of pioneering essays penned by the late Simon Walker, a highly respected historian of late medieval England. One of the finest scholars of his generation, Walker's writing is lucid, inspirational, and has permanently enriched our understanding of the period. The eleven essays featured here examine themes such as kingship, lordship, warfare and sanctity. There are specific studies on subjects such as the changing fortunes of the family of Sir Richard Abberbury; Yorkshire's Justices of the Peace; the service of medieval man-at-arms, Janico Dartasso; Richard II's views on kingship, political saints, and an investigation of rumour, sedition and popular protest in the reign of Henry IV. An introduction by G.L. Harriss looks back across Walker's career, and discusses the historiographical context of his work. Both the new and previously published pieces here will be essential reading for those working on the late medieval period.
Author: Gwilym Dodd
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1903153956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.
Author: Benjamin Thompson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.
Author: Linda Clark
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843831068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Eight studies of aspects of C15 England, united by a common focus on the role of ideas in political developments of the time. The concept of "political culture" has become very fashionable in the last thirty years, but only recently has it been consciously taken up by practitioners of late-medieval English history, who have argued for the need to acknowledge the role of ideas in politics. While this work has focused on elite political culture, interest in the subject has been growing among historians of towns and villages, especially as they have begun to recognise the importance of both internal politics and national government in the affairs of townsmen and peasants. This volume, the product of a conference on political culture in the late middle ages, explores the subject from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of spheres. It is hoped that it will put the subject firmly on the map for the study of late-medieval England and lead to further exploration of political culture in this period. Contributors CAROLINE BARRON, ALAN CROMARTIE, CHRISTOPHER DYER, MAURICE KEEN, MIRI RUBIN, BENJAMIN THOMPSON, JOHN WATTS, JENNY WORMALD. LINDA CLARK is editor, History of Parliament; CHRISTINE CARPENTER is Reader in History, University ofCambridge.
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134603436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century is a new and original study of how politics worked in late medieval England, throwing new light on a much-discussed period in English history. Michael Hicks explores the standards, values and principles that motivated contemporary politicians, and the aspirations and interests of both dukes and peasants alike. Hicks argues that the Wars of the Roses did not result from fundamental weaknesses in the political system but from the collision of exceptional circumstances that quickly passed away. Overall, he shows that the era was one of stability and harmony, and that there were effective mechanisms for keeping the peace. Structure and continuities, Hicks argues, were more prominent than change.
Author: Raluca Radulescu
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719068256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Essays in this collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late-medieval England. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behavior, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved and how it was disseminated.
Author: Christopher Fletcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107089905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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A detailed comparative study of how kings governed late-medieval France and England, analysing the multiple mechanisms of royal power.
Author: E. Amanda McVitty
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.
Author: Andrea Ruddick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107007267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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A study of the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England, in its political and constitutional context.
Author: Claire Valente
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Medieval Englishmen were treacherous, rebellious and killed their kings, as their French contemporaries repeatedly noted. In the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries, ten kings faced serious rebellion, in which eight were captured, deposed, and/or murdered. One other king escaped open revolt but encountered vigorous resistance. In this book, Professor Valente argues that the crises of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were crucibles for change; and their examination helps us to understand medieval political culture in general and key developments in later medieval England in particular. The Theory and Practice of Revolt takes a comparative look at these crises, seeking to understand medieval ideas of proper kingship and government, the role of political violence and the changing nature of reform initiatives and the rebellions to which they led. It argues that rebellion was an accepted and to a certain extent legitimate means to restore good kingship throughout the period, but that over time it became increasingly divorced from reform aims, which were satisfied by other means, and transformed by growing lordly dominance, arrogance, and selfishness. Eventually the tradition of legitimate revolt disappeared, to be replaced by both parliament and dynastic civil war. Thus, on the one hand, development of parliament, itself an outgrowth of political crises, reduced the need for and legitimacy of crisis reform. On the other hand, when crises did arise, the idea and practice of the community of the realm, so vibrant in the thirteenth century, broke down under the pressures of new political and socio-economic realities. By exploring violence and ideas of government over a longer period than is normally the case, this work attempts to understand medieval conceptions on their own terms rather than with regard to modern assumptions and to use comparison as a means of explaining events, ideas, and developments.
