The Whilton Dispute 1264 1380

Author : Robert C. Palmer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781400856350

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The Whilton Dispute, 1264-1380 by Robert C. Palmer Pdf

Robert C. Palmer examines the Whilton dispute, an intrafamilial, multigenerational contest over a large estate that continued, primarily in the courts, from 1264until 1380. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robert C. Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835770737

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The Whilton Dispute, 1264-1380 by Robert C. Palmer Pdf

Author : Carol Lansing,Edward D. English
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118499467

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A Companion to the Medieval World by Carol Lansing,Edward D. English Pdf

Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of the West Explores Europe’s understanding of the wider world to place the study of the medieval society in a global context

Author : Thomas Kuehn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226457659

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Law, Family, and Women by Thomas Kuehn Pdf

Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, especially in the spheres of family and women. Kuehn's use of legal sources along with letters, diaries, and contemporary accounts allows him to present a compelling image of the social processes that affected the shape and function of the law. The numerous law courts of Italian city-states constantly devised and revised statutes. Kuehn traces the permutations of these laws, then examines their use by Florentines to arbitrate conflict and regulate social behavior regarding such issues as kinship, marriage, business, inheritance, illlegitimacy, and gender. Ranging from one man's embittered denunciation of his father to another's reaction to his kinsmen's rejection of him as illegitimate, Law, Family, and Women provides fascinating evidence of the tensions riddling family life in Renaissance Florence. Kuehn shows how these same tensions, often articulated in and through the law, affected women. He examines the role of the mundualdus—a male legal guardian for women—in Florence, the control of fathers over their married daughters, and issues of inheritance by and through women. An ambitious attempt to reformulate the agenda of Renaissance social history, Kuehn's work will be of value to both legal anthropologists and social historians. Thomas Kuehn is professor of history at Clemson University.

Author : Caroline Dunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781107017009

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Stolen Women in Medieval England by Caroline Dunn Pdf

The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.

Author : Thomas J. McSweeney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198845454

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Priests of the Law by Thomas J. McSweeney Pdf

Priests of the Law tells the story of the first people in the history of the common law to think of themselves as legal professionals. In the middle decades of the thirteenth century, a group of justices working in the English royal courts spent a great deal of time thinking and writing about what it meant to be a person who worked in the law courts. This book examines the justices who wrote the treatise known as Bracton. Written and re-written between the 1220s and the 1260s, Bracton is considered one of the great treatises of the early common law and is still occasionally cited by judges and lawyers when they want to make the case that a particular rule goes back to the beginning of the common law. This book looks to Bracton less for what it can tell us about the law of the thirteenth century, however, than for what it can tell us about the judges who wrote it. The judges who wrote Bracton - Martin of Pattishall, William of Raleigh, and Henry of Bratton - were some of the first people to work full-time in England's royal courts, at a time when there was no recourse to an obvious model for the legal professional. They found one in an unexpected place: they sought to clothe themselves in the authority and prestige of the scholarly Roman-law tradition that was sweeping across Europe in the thirteenth century, modelling themselves on the jurists of Roman law who were teaching in European universities. In Bracton and other texts they produced, the justices of the royal courts worked hard to ensure that the nascent common-law tradition grew from Roman Law. Through their writing, this small group of people, working in the courts of an island realm, imagined themselves to be part of a broader European legal culture. They made the case that they were not merely servants of the king: they were priests of the law.

Author : Caroline Burt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521889995

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Edward I and the Governance of England, 1272-1307 by Caroline Burt Pdf

This study of Edward I's governance radically re-evaluates his motivations and achievements, presenting an entirely new interpretation of his reign.

Author : Michael Prestwich
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199226870

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Plantagenet England 1225-1360 by Michael Prestwich Pdf

"England of the Plantagenet kings was a turbulent place. In politics it saw Simon de Montfort's challenge to the crown in Henry III's reign and it witnessed the deposition of Edward II. By contrast, and as relief, it also experienced the highly successful rules of Edward I and his grandson, Edward III. Political institutions were transformed with the development of parliament, and war, the stimulus for some of that change, was never far away. Wales was conquered and the Scottish Wars of Independence started in Edward I's reign, while Crecy and Poitiers were English triumphs under Edward III." "Beyond politics, the structure of English society was developing, from the great magnates at the top to the peasantry at the bottom. Economic changes were also significant, from the expansionary period of the thirteenth century to years of difficulty in the fourteenth, culminating in the greatest demographic disaster of historical times, the Black Death." "Embracing politics and government, kingship, the structure of society, France, Scotland, and Wales, as well as areas such as the environment, the management of the land, crime and punishment, Michael Prestwich's survey casts the Plantagenet past in a new and revealing light."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sue Sheridan Walker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : England
ISBN : 0472104152

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Wife and Widow in Medieval England by Sue Sheridan Walker Pdf

Examines the role of women in medieval law and society

Author : Edward Powell,Formerly Fellow and Director of Studies in History Downing College Edward Powell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198200826

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Kingship, Law, and Society by Edward Powell,Formerly Fellow and Director of Studies in History Downing College Edward Powell Pdf

This is the first work devoted to setting the legal system of the early 15th century in its social and political context. Rejecting the traditional view of late medieval England as chronically lawless and violent, Powell emphasizes instead the structural constraints on royal power to enforce the law, and the king's dependence on the cooperation of local society for keeping the peace.

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470998779

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A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages by S. H. Rigby Pdf

This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading

Author : D. Vance Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816639515

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Arts of Possession by D. Vance Smith Pdf

An innovative work of both economic anthropology and literary history, Arts of Possession draws on philosophical, theoretical, literary, historical, and archival sources and insights to situate the household at the center of the social and cultural imagination of fourteenth-century England. D. Vance Smith argues that in a period commonly represented as precapitalist there actually existed a sophisticated economic discourse -- and that discourse underlies common forms of representation and the writing of literary texts. His work provides a new historiography of capital and of the development of the relation between economic sophistication and cultural practices. Smith reads well-known and less-appreciated works -- such as Winner and Waster, Sir Launfal, The Canterbury Tales, and Piers Plowman -- for what they can tell us about the surpluses and economies that drew the medieval imagination, and about the complex ethics of possession at the heart of the fourteenth-century household. In bringing this to light, Smith's book itself becomes an eloquent meditation on the poetics and ethics of possession.

Author : Richard Firth Green
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0812218094

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A Crisis of Truth by Richard Firth Green Pdf

"Green's work is of the greatest importance for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of English writing and institutions, and a crucial shift in patterns of cognition."—Derek Pearsall, Harvard University

Author : R. H. Britnell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Commerce
ISBN : 0719050421

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The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000-1500 by R. H. Britnell Pdf

The commercialisation of English society offers a major new interpretation of social and economic change in England over five centuries. By 1500 English livelihoods depended more upon money and commercial transactions than ever before; the institutional framework of markets had been transformed, and urban development was more pronounced. These changes were not, however, caused by any unilinear development of population, output or money supply. This pioneering study examines both institutional and economic transformation, and the social changes that resulted, and stresses the limited importance of formal trading institutions for the development of local trade. Commercial transition is throughout analysed from a broader perspective that looks at the changing power relations within medieval society (which might loosely be described as feudal), and considers how these relations were affected by such commercial development.

Author : W Mark Ormrod,Anthony Musson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349270040

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The Evolution of English Justice by W Mark Ormrod,Anthony Musson Pdf

The importance of the fourteenth century for the development of English law has long been recognised. The shocks and challenges of that period - the murder of the incompetent Edward II, Edward III's ever escalating military demands for the war in France and the unparalleled disaster of the Black Death - gave English society a trauma that found its ultimate expression in Lollardy and the Peasants' Revolt. Out of this ferment came the evolution of a system of justice still substantially recognisable today. This key theme for students of late medieval England has often been made needlessly difficult by the rarefied nature of most books available on the subject. The aim of this book is to present in lucid and approachable terms the main outline of the debate and the different schools of thought, and to suggest the best ways by which students can understand a crucial subject and how this helps illuminate many other aspects of English society during the reigns of Edward II, Edward III and Richard II.