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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... assent and advice of his council, amend the law in detail, as Kdward I did in the early part of his reign through a series of famous statues, but it was not, strictly speaking, his law. Moreover, the common law of the king's courts was ...
... assent and advice of his council, amend the law in detail, as Kdward I did in the early part of his reign through a series of famous statues, but it was not, strictly speaking, his law. Moreover, the common law of the king's courts was ...
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... assent to taxation on his behalf. Within the course of the half century following 1290, the assembly called parliament came to be identified as the proper forum in which such assent should be given, and a parliament, moreover, that ...
... assent to taxation on his behalf. Within the course of the half century following 1290, the assembly called parliament came to be identified as the proper forum in which such assent should be given, and a parliament, moreover, that ...
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... assented taxation had serious shortcomings. They were occasional, granted for a specific campaign or in a specific military emergency; the idea that a king needed regular grants of taxation was never accepted in medieval England. The ...
... assented taxation had serious shortcomings. They were occasional, granted for a specific campaign or in a specific military emergency; the idea that a king needed regular grants of taxation was never accepted in medieval England. The ...
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... assenting to taxation through their representatives in parliaments, but also through the part they came to play in local justice and administration, and through service in the kings' wars. The third is the interaction between royal ...
... assenting to taxation through their representatives in parliaments, but also through the part they came to play in local justice and administration, and through service in the kings' wars. The third is the interaction between royal ...
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... assent, and he did so again in 1301 and 1306. These usually raised between £30,000 and £40,000 (though the tenth and sixth of 1294 raised much more): perhaps nearly enough, that is to say, to pay for one host for a year in Scotland. In ...
... assent, and he did so again in 1301 and 1306. These usually raised between £30,000 and £40,000 (though the tenth and sixth of 1294 raised much more): perhaps nearly enough, that is to say, to pay for one host for a year in Scotland. In ...
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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