England in the Later Middle AgesFirst 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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... summoned to parliaments. He was responsible for the pursuit and custody of criminals, for empanelling juries to try cases, and in general for having all things ready when the king's justices visited his shire. Most judicial work was ...
... summoned to parliaments. He was responsible for the pursuit and custody of criminals, for empanelling juries to try cases, and in general for having all things ready when the king's justices visited his shire. Most judicial work was ...
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... summon about 900 from all over his 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 ...
... summon about 900 from all over his 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 ...
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... summoned to explain why he had done so, a most uncomfortable prospect. English society in the late Middle Ages, and especially its prosperous sector, was small enough for the ill will of the king and his officers to matter a great deal ...
... summoned to explain why he had done so, a most uncomfortable prospect. English society in the late Middle Ages, and especially its prosperous sector, was small enough for the ill will of the king and his officers to matter a great deal ...
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... summoned to parliaments by individual writs were great landowners, feudal tenants in chief of the king: that was why they were so summoned. They were no less determined than were the lay magnates to maintain the integrity of their wide ...
... summoned to parliaments by individual writs were great landowners, feudal tenants in chief of the king: that was why they were so summoned. They were no less determined than were the lay magnates to maintain the integrity of their wide ...
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Maurice Keen. inquiries and summoned all those lords who held franchises to prove their title to them in his courts, the Earl of Warenne appeared before the royal judges brandishing an 'ancient and rusty sword'. 'Behold, my lords', he ...
Maurice Keen. inquiries and summoned all those lords who held franchises to prove their title to them in his courts, the Earl of Warenne appeared before the royal judges brandishing an 'ancient and rusty sword'. 'Behold, my lords', he ...
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