Author: Jennifer C. Ward
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Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Anne Curry
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843836742
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research.

Author: Jacqueline Eales
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 1907396780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Honoring the memory of Professor Alan Everitt, who advanced the fruitful notion of the county community during the 17th century, this volume proposes some modifications to Everitt's influential hypotheses in the light of the best recent scholarship. With an important reevaluation of political engagement in civil war Kent and an assessment of numerous midland and southern counties as well as Wales, this record evaluates the extraordinary impact of Everitt's book and the debate it provoked. Comprehensive and enlightening, this collection suggests future directions for research into the relationship between the center and localities in 17th-century England.

Author: Nigel Saul
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851157764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Biennial volumes of new research on an eventful century coloured by the Plantagenet dynasty.

Author: Richard Gorski
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9780851159331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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A study of the careers of over 1200 sheriffs appointed in England during the fourteenth century.

Author: William Caferro
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801888808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Winner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Winner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy. Born in England, Hawkwood began his career in France during the Hundred Years' War and crossed into Italy with the famed White Company in 1361. From that time until his death in 1394, Hawkwood fought throughout the peninsula as a captain of armies in times of war and as a commander of marauding bands during times of peace. He achieved international fame, and city-states constantly tried to outbid each other for his services, for which he received money, land, and, in the case of Florence, citizenship—a most unusual honor for an Englishman. When Hawkwood died, the Florentines buried him with great ceremony in their cathedral, an honor denied their greatest poet, Dante. William Caferro's ambitious account of Hawkwood is both a biography and a study of warfare and statecraft. Caferro has mined more than twenty archives in Britain and Italy, creating an authoritative portrait of Hawkwood as an extraordinary military leader, if not always an admirable human being.

Author: R. C. Richardson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719036002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Matthew Hefferan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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First extended survey of the subject, looking at the knights' activities, roles, background and service.

Author: Christopher Thornton
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 1909291943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The wars of the fourteenth-century English kings with France and Scotland resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of men involved in warfare on land and sea. This book draws upon new research to identify and analyze these soldiers at all social levels in the specific context of the county of Essex. New approaches to the history of the later Middle Ages allow important evidence of military service to be correlated with the rich documentary material stemming from landholding, taxation, administration and other aspects of economic and social life. Significant comparisons can then be made: increased demands for taxation and for shipping from maritime communities, for example, cast light on the impact of war upon the 'Home Front'. The uprising of 1381 is considered as the consequence of the intensive militarization of the south and southeast coast of England and the consequent cost to taxpayers. In a series of related chapters which add up to a wide-reaching survey, leading researchers explore key aspects of military, social and economic history in fourteenth-century Essex. From the raising of forces to serve the king, through a study of aristocratic lawlessness which may have been linked to violent experiences on the battlefield, to new ways of analysing data to give insights into men recruited as archers and mariners, and a consideration of military aspects of the Peasants' Revolt, this is a rewarding examination of medieval fighting men which affords much new insight into Essex history.

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Issues for autumn 1961- include the Standing Conference for Local History Bulletin.