England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political HistoryFirst published to wide critical acclaim in 1973, England in the Later Middle Ages has become a seminal text for students studying this diverse, complex period. This spirited work surveys the period from Edward I to the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, which heralded in the Tudor Age. |
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... Wales. I recorded in my original preface my indebtedness to those scholars who have made late medieval English history their special field: that debt has been greatly enlarged since then. Three new and particular debts of gratitude ...
... Wales. I recorded in my original preface my indebtedness to those scholars who have made late medieval English history their special field: that debt has been greatly enlarged since then. Three new and particular debts of gratitude ...
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... Wales and its marches and on the northern border with Scotland, the king's government shaded off into remote control. The king's duchy of Aquitaine and his lordship of Ireland were administered separately from England, and his authority ...
... Wales and its marches and on the northern border with Scotland, the king's government shaded off into remote control. The king's duchy of Aquitaine and his lordship of Ireland were administered separately from England, and his authority ...
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... Wales and Scotland, in Edward I's day, they often served without pay, and later, for service in France, they showed themselves willing to wait, sometimes for years, for wages of war for themselves and their men. On account of their ...
... Wales and Scotland, in Edward I's day, they often served without pay, and later, for service in France, they showed themselves willing to wait, sometimes for years, for wages of war for themselves and their men. On account of their ...
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... Wales - to mention a few among the most dignified and profitable. Though there were considerable disparities of wealth between individual magnate families, the lay magnates constituted a relatively homogeneous political elite. They were ...
... Wales - to mention a few among the most dignified and profitable. Though there were considerable disparities of wealth between individual magnate families, the lay magnates constituted a relatively homogeneous political elite. They were ...
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... Wales under his direct dominion. The treaty therefore promised in due course (if the children survived) to round off an imperium for the English royal house over the whole of the British Isles. It also offered a simple and peaceful ...
... Wales under his direct dominion. The treaty therefore promised in due course (if the children survived) to round off an imperium for the English royal house over the whole of the British Isles. It also offered a simple and peaceful ...
Contents
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The reign of Edward II and its aftermath | 46 |
12901330 | 67 |
13301338 | 85 |
13371360 | 99 |
13301360 | 117 |
an overview | 137 |
Church and state in the later Middle Ages | 160 |
The reign of Henry IV | 242 |
parliament and the council | 261 |
The reign of Henry V | 281 |
14221453 | 302 |
14221450 | 325 |
14501461 | 347 |
Edward IVand Richard III | 369 |
England under the Yorkists | 394 |
Mysticism Wyclif and Lollardy | 180 |
13601381 | 201 |
The reign of Richard II | 219 |
Thc Woodville Family | 459 |
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administration alliance Archbishop Archbishop Arundel army Arundel assent authority Balliol barons bastard feudal Beaufort Bishop Brittany Burgundy Calais Cambridge campaign church claim clergy commons council councillors counties court crown Despensers duchy Duke Earl Edward II's reign Edward III Edward III's English estates exchequer export favour feudal fifteenth century Flanders force fourteenth century French Gascony gentry Gloucester grant heir Henry Henry VI Henry's host household Hundred Years War important influence justice K.B. McFarlane King of France king's kingdom knights labour Lancaster Lancastrian land late medieval Later Middle Ages Lollard London lords magnates March Medieval England ment merchants military Mortimer Normandy Ordinances Oxford parliament peace peers Percy period Philip political pope Prince promised R.P. vol realm remained revolt Richard Richard II royal Scotland Scots shire Somerset statute subsidy summoned taxation Thomas throne tion took treason treaty truce V. H. Galbraith Wales Warwick wool Wyclif York Yorkist