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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... the financing of large scale campaigns, and on the other from their greater subjects, who had their own views on policies and governance and who were too powerful Introduction: The structure of government and politics.
... the financing of large scale campaigns, and on the other from their greater subjects, who had their own views on policies and governance and who were too powerful Introduction: The structure of government and politics.
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... campaign. We shall have to look in later chapters at the detailed problems of raising hosts for campaigning and paying for them. It was a very expensive business. There was no standing army. Though there was a general obligation on all ...
... campaign. We shall have to look in later chapters at the detailed problems of raising hosts for campaigning and paying for them. It was a very expensive business. There was no standing army. Though there was a general obligation on all ...
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... campaign. To every mounted cavalryman in the host there might be ten or even twenty footmen, mostly archers, an increasing proportion of them usually being mounted for purposes of mobility. In the fourteenth century archers became more ...
... campaign. To every mounted cavalryman in the host there might be ten or even twenty footmen, mostly archers, an increasing proportion of them usually being mounted for purposes of mobility. In the fourteenth century archers became more ...
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... campaign or in a specific military emergency; the idea that a king needed regular grants of taxation was never accepted in medieval England. The conditions on which they were granted were often unwelcome to the king. Besides, they ...
... campaign or in a specific military emergency; the idea that a king needed regular grants of taxation was never accepted in medieval England. The conditions on which they were granted were often unwelcome to the king. Besides, they ...
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... campaigns in France. The practice of retaining was regulated, in the late Middle Ages, by a number of statutes (not, it must be admitted, very effectively). The most important of these was Richard II 's statute of 1390. This forbade all ...
... campaigns in France. The practice of retaining was regulated, in the late Middle Ages, by a number of statutes (not, it must be admitted, very effectively). The most important of these was Richard II 's statute of 1390. This forbade all ...
Contents
23 | |
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