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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... king's wars grants of assented taxation had serious shortcomings. They were occasional, granted for a specific campaign or in a specific military emergency; the idea that a king needed regular grants of taxation was never accepted in ...
... king's wars grants of assented taxation had serious shortcomings. They were occasional, granted for a specific campaign or in a specific military emergency; the idea that a king needed regular grants of taxation was never accepted in ...
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... king and his officers to matter a great deal to quite ordinary people. Small sums, contributed by individuals and communities who lent voluntarily because they knew that they could be compelled to do so, only dented the king's ...
... king and his officers to matter a great deal to quite ordinary people. Small sums, contributed by individuals and communities who lent voluntarily because they knew that they could be compelled to do so, only dented the king's ...
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... king that hath nought in his purse'. Fortescue was here thinking about the problems facing Henry VI's government ... king's greater subjects, with whose affairs the rest of this chapter will be principally concerned, we must ...
... king that hath nought in his purse'. Fortescue was here thinking about the problems facing Henry VI's government ... king's greater subjects, with whose affairs the rest of this chapter will be principally concerned, we must ...
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... king's realm was quite as vital to their interests as his, and they looked on themselves as his companions in maintaining domestic governance as well as in war. They expected to give the king counsel about the government of his realm ...
... king's realm was quite as vital to their interests as his, and they looked on themselves as his companions in maintaining domestic governance as well as in war. They expected to give the king counsel about the government of his realm ...
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... king's judges and the officials of the exchequer were on the crown's behalf. All the great magnates held at least a part of their inheritances in chief from the crown by feudal tenure, and many of them the major part. As a system of ...
... king's judges and the officials of the exchequer were on the crown's behalf. All the great magnates held at least a part of their inheritances in chief from the crown by feudal tenure, and many of them the major part. As a system of ...
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