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Author : Linda Clark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833338
A range of important issues in current research are debated in the latest volume in the series, with a special focus on warfare.
Author : Juliet Barker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674070257
For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that Juliet Barker brings to vivid life in Conquest. Following Agincourt, Henry V’s second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign that would place the crown of France on an English head. Buoyed by conquest, the English army seemed invincible. By the time of Henry’s premature death in 1422, nearly all of northern France lay in his hands and the Valois heir to the throne had been disinherited. Only the appearance of a visionary peasant girl who claimed divine guidance, Joan of Arc, was able to halt the English advance, but not for long. Just six months after her death, Henry’s young son was crowned in Paris as the first—and last—English king of France. Henry VI’s kingdom endured for twenty years, but when he came of age he was not the leader his father had been. The dauphin whom Joan had crowned Charles VII would finally drive the English out of France. Barker recounts these stirring events—the epic battles and sieges, plots and betrayals—through a kaleidoscope of characters from John Talbot, the “English Achilles,” and John, duke of Bedford, regent of France, to brutal mercenaries, opportunistic freebooters, resourceful spies, and lovers torn apart by the conflict.
Author : B. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230235342
This volume extends the 'British Isles' approach pioneered by Robin Frame and Rees Davies to the later middle ages. Through examination of issues such as frontier formation, colonial identities and connections with the wider world it explores whether this period saw the bonds between the British Isles weaken, strengthen, or simply alter.
Author : Jackson Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472999
Explains the history of England's northern borderlands in the fifteenth century within a broader social, political and European context.
Author : Katherine Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134454532
Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England explores the dynamic between kingship and masculinity in fifteenth century England, with a particular focus on Henry V and Henry VI. The role of gender in the rhetoric and practice of medieval kingship is still largely unexplored by medieval historians. Discourses of masculinity informed much of the contemporary comment on fifteenth century kings, for a variety of purposes: to praise and eulogise but also to explain shortcomings and provide justification for deposition. Katherine J. Lewis examines discourses of masculinity in relation to contemporary understandings of the nature and acquisition of manhood in the period and considers the extent to which judgements of a king’s performance were informed by his ability to embody the right balance of manly qualities. This book’s primary concern is with how these two kings were presented, represented and perceived by those around them, but it also asks how far Henry V and Henry VI can be said to have understood the importance of personifying a particular brand of masculinity in their performance of kingship and of meeting the expectations of their subjects in this respect. It explores the extent to which their established reputations as inherently ‘manly’ and ‘unmanly’ kings were the product of their handling of political circumstances, but owed something to factors beyond their immediate control as well. Consideration is also given to Margaret of Anjou’s manipulation of ideologies of kingship and manhood in response to her husband’s incapacity, and the ramifications of this for perceptions of the relational gender identities which she and Henry VI embodied together. Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England is an essential resource for students of gender and medieval history.
Author : Adam Chapman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270316
Examines the role of Welsh soldiers in English armies, from the conquests under Edward I through to the Battle of Agincourt.
Author : A. K. Gundy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107433786
The reign of Richard II and the circumstances of his deposition have long been subject to intense debate. This new interpretation of the politics of the late-fourteenth century offers an in-depth survey of Richard's reign from the perspective of one of the leading nobles who came to oppose him, Thomas Beauchamp, the Appellant Earl of Warwick. This is the first full-length study of one of Richard II's opponents to explore not only why the Earl rebelled against the King, but also why Richard lost his throne. Rather than offering the traditional explanation of a subject grown too mighty, Alison Gundy sets Warwick's rule in the context of the political and constitutional framework of the period. The interplay of local and national events helps to reveal Warwick's motives as a long-serving member of the nobility faced with a king determined to rule in a manner contradictory to contemporary political structures.
Author : Eliza Hartrich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192582805
Since the mid-twentieth century, political histories of late medieval England have focused almost exclusively on the relationship between the Crown and aristocratic landholders. Such studies, however, neglect to consider that England after the Black Death was an urbanising society. Towns not only were the residence of a rising proportion of the population, but were also the stages on which power was asserted and the places where financial and military resources were concentrated. Outside London, however, most English towns were small compared to those found in contemporary Italy or Flanders, and it has been easy for historians to under-estimate their ability to influence English politics. Politics and the Urban Sector in Fifteenth-Century England, 1413-1471 offers a new approach for evaluating the role of urban society in late medieval English politics. Rather than focusing on English towns individually, it creates a model for assessing the political might that could be exerted by towns collectively as an 'urban sector'. Based on primary sources from twenty-two towns (ranging from the metropolis of London to the tiny Kentish town of Lydd), Politics and the Urban Sector demonstrates how fluctuations in inter-urban relationships affected the content, pace, and language of English politics during the tumultuous fifteenth century. In particular, the volume presents a new interpretation of the Wars of the Roses, in which the relative strength of the 'urban sector' determined the success of kings and their challengers and moulded the content of the political programmes they advocated.
Author : Anthony Tuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:39000000852264
Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141908007
There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Agincourt. The extraordinary artistic achievements - the great churches, castles and tombs that still dominate the landscape, the birth of the English language in The Canterbury Tales. For the first time in a generation, a historian has had the vision and confidence to write a spell-binding account of the era immortalised by Shakespeare's history plays. THE HOLLOW CROWN brilliantly brings to life for the reader a world we have long lost - a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war - but continues to define so much of England's national myth.
Author : Samuel Kline Cohn,Douglas Aiton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027800
Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.
Author : Tom Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191088483
There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance. While historians have long studied these institutions, there have been very few attempts to understand this complex institutional form of 'legal pluralism'. Law in Common provides a way of understanding this complexity by drawing out broader patterns of legal engagement. Tom Johnson first explores four 'local legal cultures'—in the countryside, in forests, in towns and cities, and in the maritime world—that grew up around legal institutions, landscapes, and forms of socio-economic practice in these places, and produced distinctive senses of law. Johnson then turns to examine 'common legalities', widespread forms of social practice that emerge across these different localities, through which people aimed to invoke the power of law. Through studies of the physical landscape, the production of legitimate knowledge, the emergence of English as a legal vernacular, and the proliferation of legal documents, the volume offers a new way to understand how common people engaged with law in the course of their everyday lives. Drawing on a huge body of archival research from the plenitude of different local institutions, Law in Common offers a new social history of law that aims to explain how common people negotiated the transformational changes of the long fifteenth century with, and through, legality.
Author : Andy King,David Simpkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004229822
In England and Scotland at War, c.1296-c.1513, Andy King and David Simpkin bring together new perspectives on the Anglo-Scottish conflict from Dunbar to Flodden. The essays focus on the military history of the wars from both sides of the border.
Author : Richard Kaeuper,Christopher Guyol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004302655
In Kings, Knights, and Bankers, Richard Kaeuper presents a lifetime of research on Italian financiers, English kingship, chivalric violence, and knightly piety.
Author : Helen Castor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571284641
Acclaimed historian Helen Castor brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman; a roaring girl fighting the English, and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing fifteenth century France apart. Here is a portrait of a 19-year-old peasant who hears voices from God; a teenager transformed into a warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believed women should not fight. And it is also the story behind the myth we all know, a myth which began to take hold at her trial: that of the Maid of Orleans, the saviour of France, a young woman burned at the stake as a heretic, a woman who five hundred years later would be declared a saint. Joan and her world are brought vividly to life in this refreshing new take on the medieval world. Helen Castor brings us to the heart of the action, to a woman and a country in turmoil, a world where no-one - not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knew what would happen next.
