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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... kingdom, to new stresses. These stresses generated for the kingdom's rulers a greater need for cooperation, on the one hand from those who controlled the purse strings for the financing of large scale campaigns, and on the other from ...
... kingdom, to new stresses. These stresses generated for the kingdom's rulers a greater need for cooperation, on the one hand from those who controlled the purse strings for the financing of large scale campaigns, and on the other from ...
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... kingdom stemmed ultimately from the crown. In reality, however, royal government was neither all powerful, nor legally omnicompetent. Its scope was limited by its objectives: it was not designed to foster the public welfare by providing ...
... kingdom stemmed ultimately from the crown. In reality, however, royal government was neither all powerful, nor legally omnicompetent. Its scope was limited by its objectives: it was not designed to foster the public welfare by providing ...
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... kingdom regionally and in the service of the crown. The system of 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 ...
... kingdom regionally and in the service of the crown. The system of 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 ...
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... kingdom to serve in the Caerlaverock 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 ...
... kingdom to serve in the Caerlaverock 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 ...
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... kingdom. Anyone who turns the pages of the Black Prince's Register may check for himself the connexion between the service of an extravagantly generous lord of the blood royal who happened also to be the most notable military commander ...
... kingdom. Anyone who turns the pages of the Black Prince's Register may check for himself the connexion between the service of an extravagantly generous lord of the blood royal who happened also to be the most notable military commander ...
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