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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... administration, and the chancellor, who was usually a bishop, was in consequence always a man of influence. He was automatically a member of the royal council, and came to be often the chief spokesman who explained the king's need for ...
... administration, and the chancellor, who was usually a bishop, was in consequence always a man of influence. He was automatically a member of the royal council, and came to be often the chief spokesman who explained the king's need for ...
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... administration. The most important figure in local government at the end of the thirteenth century was still, as it had long been, the king's sheriff. It was he who, in the county court that met once a month, published royal statutes ...
... administration. The most important figure in local government at the end of the thirteenth century was still, as it had long been, the king's sheriff. It was he who, in the county court that met once a month, published royal statutes ...
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... administration that was in operation before the wars began to generate new stresses was sufficient to its foremost intended task, the enforcement of the king's hereditary rights. Those rights were however not wide enough, and above all ...
... administration that was in operation before the wars began to generate new stresses was sufficient to its foremost intended task, the enforcement of the king's hereditary rights. Those rights were however not wide enough, and above all ...
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... administration. The dangers of borrowing were less straightforward. Loans to the crown were inseparable from war taxation in the late Middle Ages. Subsidies took time to collect, and it became normal to ask for loans in anticipation of ...
... administration. The dangers of borrowing were less straightforward. Loans to the crown were inseparable from war taxation in the late Middle Ages. Subsidies took time to collect, and it became normal to ask for loans in anticipation of ...
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... administration of the inheritance was thus a replica of the royal administration, and a magnate's councillors were quite as conscious of their duty to enforce all his rights and as ingenious in their pursuit of this object as the king's ...
... administration of the inheritance was thus a replica of the royal administration, and a magnate's councillors were quite as conscious of their duty to enforce all his rights and as ingenious in their pursuit of this object as the king's ...
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