Author : J. S. Hamilton
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843832201
This series provides a forum for the most recent research into the political, social and ecclesiastical history of the 14th century.
Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1843835304
The essays collected here present the fruits of the most recent research on aspects of the history, politics and culture of England during the long' fourteenth century - roughly speaking from the reign of Edward I to the reign of Henry V. Based on a range of primary sources, they are both original and challenging in their conclusions. Several of the articles touch in one way or another upon the subject of warfare, but the approaches which they adopt are significantly different, ranging from an analysis of the medieval theory of self-defence to an investigation of the relative utility of narrative and documentary sources for a specific campaign. Literary texts such as Barbour's Bruce are also discussed, and a re-evaluation of one particular set of records indicates that, in this case at least, the impact of the Black Death of 1348-9 may have been even more devastating than is usually thought. Chris Given-Wilson is Professor of Late Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews. Contributors: Susan Foran, Penny Lawne, Paula Arthur, Graham E. St John, Diana Tyson, David Green, Jessica Lutkin, Rory Cox, Adrian R. Bell
Author : James Bothwell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153048
Papers from the Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fourteenth Century held at the University of York in July 1998.
Author : Andy King
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833182
Typical accounts of Anglo-Scottish relations during the 14th century tends to present a sustained period of bitter enmity. However, this book shows that the situation was far more complex. Drawing together new perspectives from leading researchers, the essays investigate the great complexity of the Anglo-Scottish tensions.
Author : David Richard Carlson
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1843843153
John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "official" writings on behalf of the Crown. John Gower has been criticised for composing verse propaganda for the English state, in support of the regime of Henry IV, at the end of his distinguished career. However, as the author of this book shows, using evidence from Gower's English, French and Latin poems alongside contemporary state papers, pamphlet-literature, and other historical prose, Gower was not the only medieval writer to be so employed in serving a monarchy's goals. Professor Carlson also argues that Gower's late poetry is the apotheosis of the fourteenth-century tradition of state-official writing which lay at the origin of the literary Renaissance in Ricardian and Lancastrian England. David Carlsonis Professor in the Department of English, University of Ottawa.
Author : David Green
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1783274522
The fruits of new research on the politics, society and culture of England in the fourteenth century.
Author : William Abel Pantin
Publisher :
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1980
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : Andrea Ruddick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107007267
A study of the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England, in its political and constitutional context.
Author : Craig L. Lambert
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1843836548
Mariners made a major - but neglected - contribution to England's warfare in the middle ages. Here their role is examined anew, showing their importance. During the fourteenth century England was scarred by famine, plague and warfare. Through such disasters, however, emerged great feats of human endurance. Not only did the English population recover from starvation and disease butthousands of the kingdom's subjects went on to defeat the Scots and the French in several notable battles. Victories such as Halidon Hill, Neville's Cross, Crécy and Poitiers not only helped to recover the pride of the English chivalrous class but also secured the reputation of Edward III and the Black Prince. Yet what has been underemphasized in this historical narrative is the role played by men of more humble origins, none more so than the medievalmariner. This is unfortunate because during the fourteenth century the manpower and ships provided by the English merchant fleet underpinned every military expedition. The aim of this book is to address this gap. Its fresh approach to the sources allows the enormous contribution of the English merchant fleet to the wars conducted by Edward II and Edward III to be revealed; the author also explores the complex administrative process of raising a fleet andprovides career profiles for many mariners, examining the familial relationships that existed in port communities and the shipping resources of English ports. Craig L. Lambert is Research Assistant at the University ofHull.
Author : William Caferro
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2006-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801883231
John Hawkwood was fourteenth-century Italy's most notorious and successful soldier. A man known for cleverness and daring, he was the most feared mercenary in Renaissance Italy. Born in England, Hawkood began his career in France during the Hundred Years' War and crossed into Italy with the famed White Company in 1361. From that time until his death in 1394, Hawkwood fought throughout the peninsula as a captain of armies in times of war and as a commander of marauding bands during times of peace. He achieved international fame, and his acquaintances included such prominent people as Geoffrey Chaucer, Catherine of Siena, Jean Froissart, and Francis Petrarch. City-states constantly tried to outbid each other for his services, for which he received money, land, and in the case of Florence, citizenship -- a most unusual honor for an Englishman. When Hawkwood died, the Florentines buried him with great ceremony in their cathedral, an honor denied their greatest poet, Dante. His final resting place, however, is disputed. Historian William Caferro's ambitious account of Hawkwood is both a biography and a study of warfare and statecraft. Caferro has mined more than twenty archives in England and Italy, creating an authoritative portrait of Hawkwood as an extraordinary military leader, if not always an admirable human being. Caferro's Hawkwood possessed a talent for dissimulation and craft both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, and, ironically, managed to gain a reputation for "honesty" while beating his Italian hosts at their own game of duplicity and manipulation. In addition to a thorough account of Hawkwood's life and career, Caferro's study offers a fundamental reassessment of the Italian military situation and of the mercenary system. Hawkwood's career is treated not in isolation but firmly within the context of Italian society, against the backdrop of unfolding crises: famine, plague, popular unrest, and religious schism. Indeed, Hawkwood's life and career offer a unique vantage point from which we can study the economic, social, and political impacts of war. -- John France
