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. The second edition of this book, while maintaining the character of the original, brings the study up to date. Each chapter includes a discussion of the historiographical developments of the last decade and the author takes a fresh look at the changing world of the Later Middle Ages, particularly the plague and the economy. Also included is a rewritten introduction. |
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Page 9
... authority alone, were likely to become acute. Amongst the king's greater subjects, with whose affairs the rest of this chapter will be principally concerned, we must distinguish at the start two groups: the great lay barons and their ...
... authority alone, were likely to become acute. Amongst the king's greater subjects, with whose affairs the rest of this chapter will be principally concerned, we must distinguish at the start two groups: the great lay barons and their ...
Page 14
... authority and the crown's servants and officers needed the buttress of locally powerful influence to make legal process and the protection of property rights effective at the regional level: and local genteel society valued the ...
... authority and the crown's servants and officers needed the buttress of locally powerful influence to make legal process and the protection of property rights effective at the regional level: and local genteel society valued the ...
Page 15
... authority and private aristocratic power, and people expected that this should be so. That is what lies behind the seeming paradox, that the same kind of people - local gentry - who were most avid in the quest for the good lordship of a ...
... authority and private aristocratic power, and people expected that this should be so. That is what lies behind the seeming paradox, that the same kind of people - local gentry - who were most avid in the quest for the good lordship of a ...
Page 17
... authority alone. 'Bastard feudalism' was a version of the system of patronage and clientage which has been so important throughout English history, appropriate to the needs of an age in which influential protection was a prime social ...
... authority alone. 'Bastard feudalism' was a version of the system of patronage and clientage which has been so important throughout English history, appropriate to the needs of an age in which influential protection was a prime social ...
Page 18
... authority and private noble power, the successful coordination of which, enduringly throughout the period, remained a key factor in holding the body politic together and on course. In tracing the story of the English polity from the age ...
... authority and private noble power, the successful coordination of which, enduringly throughout the period, remained a key factor in holding the body politic together and on course. In tracing the story of the English polity from the age ...
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