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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... military service, and the assistance of men of local substance was called for in the discharge of such offices as collectors of subsidies and commissioners of array. At the same time, concern over the maintenance of public order (whose ...
... military service, and the assistance of men of local substance was called for in the discharge of such offices as collectors of subsidies and commissioners of array. At the same time, concern over the maintenance of public order (whose ...
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... military expenditure was the key factor, over the years from 1290 to 1340, in parliament's development into an institution, the primary significance of whose meetings was fiscal and political, rather than judicial. The regular ...
... military expenditure was the key factor, over the years from 1290 to 1340, in parliament's development into an institution, the primary significance of whose meetings was fiscal and political, rather than judicial. The regular ...
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... 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 always took a long time to ...
... 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 always took a long time to ...
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... military) connecting lord and tenant, feudalism was already, before the late thirteenth century, obsolete, but it remained the basis of English common law concerning land tenure. This meant that the king retained his right to his feudal ...
... military) connecting lord and tenant, feudalism was already, before the late thirteenth century, obsolete, but it remained the basis of English common law concerning land tenure. This meant that the king retained his right to his feudal ...
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... military feudalism in such documents explain one principal reason for the coining of the label 'bastard feudal'). But Trafford was retained not just as a soldier, but for life and in peace as well as war, and the kind of service that ...
... military feudalism in such documents explain one principal reason for the coining of the label 'bastard feudal'). But Trafford was retained not just as a soldier, but for life and in peace as well as war, and the kind of service that ...
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