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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Page 9
... favour ought to be showed, and favour there as rigour should be showed; to the perversion of justice and perturbation of the peace and quiet of the realm.- This was an even more certain way of sowing divisions between the king and his ...
... favour ought to be showed, and favour there as rigour should be showed; to the perversion of justice and perturbation of the peace and quiet of the realm.- This was an even more certain way of sowing divisions between the king and his ...
Page 10
... favour that was needed to secure it was not always easy to achieve. The lay magnates could not have claimed the status and privileges that they did, but for their immense wealth, which, as Fortescue saw clearly, was what could make them ...
... favour that was needed to secure it was not always easy to achieve. The lay magnates could not have claimed the status and privileges that they did, but for their immense wealth, which, as Fortescue saw clearly, was what could make them ...
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... favour for the furtherance of their territorial and dynastic ambitions, the king needed to use the arts of management very carefully in his dealings with them, and in his exercise of patronage towards them (and their clients and ...
... favour for the furtherance of their territorial and dynastic ambitions, the king needed to use the arts of management very carefully in his dealings with them, and in his exercise of patronage towards them (and their clients and ...
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... favour were, in the conditions of the time, necessary adjuncts to a man's right at law, and the expectation, that his master's 'good lordship' would help him to fend off rivals' designs on his title and to advance his designs on theirs ...
... favour were, in the conditions of the time, necessary adjuncts to a man's right at law, and the expectation, that his master's 'good lordship' would help him to fend off rivals' designs on his title and to advance his designs on theirs ...
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... favour and position at home. Edward III's reign, which witnessed the victories of Crecy and Poitiers and Najera, also witnessed the longest interlude untroubled by civil strife or aristocratic sedition in the whole of the late Middle ...
... favour and position at home. Edward III's reign, which witnessed the victories of Crecy and Poitiers and Najera, also witnessed the longest interlude untroubled by civil strife or aristocratic sedition in the whole of the late Middle ...
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