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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... barons of the exchequer, men learned in the law and in the exchequer's own complicated processes. Every item of the king's revenue, and every payment made at his order, was entered on its massive rolls. The accounts, both of local ...
... barons of the exchequer, men learned in the law and in the exchequer's own complicated processes. Every item of the king's revenue, and every payment made at his order, was entered on its massive rolls. The accounts, both of local ...
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... barons and their ecclesiastical colleagues. The bishops and the greater abbots whom the king summoned to parliaments by individual writs were great landowners, feudal tenants in chief of the king: that was why they were so summoned ...
... barons and their ecclesiastical colleagues. The bishops and the greater abbots whom the king summoned to parliaments by individual writs were great landowners, feudal tenants in chief of the king: that was why they were so summoned ...
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... baron could exercise judicial rights except by the grant of the king, his superior lord and judge. A supremely ... barons busy through the winter; and though its back was broken when the Earl of Warwick defeated the most important ...
... baron could exercise judicial rights except by the grant of the king, his superior lord and judge. A supremely ... barons busy through the winter; and though its back was broken when the Earl of Warwick defeated the most important ...
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... barons of his realm were persuaded to put their seals to another letter to the pope, in the same sense.2 Boniface's attitude changed in Edward's favour a little later, when in 1302 his relations with Philip IV began to deteriorate very ...
... barons of his realm were persuaded to put their seals to another letter to the pope, in the same sense.2 Boniface's attitude changed in Edward's favour a little later, when in 1302 his relations with Philip IV began to deteriorate very ...
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... barons to bring, and the barons themselves usually served without pay, in Scotland at least. This was a considerable subvention for the king's forces, and suggests too that military service was not unpopular among the upper classes in ...
... barons to bring, and the barons themselves usually served without pay, in Scotland at least. This was a considerable subvention for the king's forces, and suggests too that military service was not unpopular among the upper classes 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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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