Author : Eric Gallagher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2021
Category : LAW
ISBN : 1783276002
Edition of the records of a medieval Suffolk eyre reveal rich details of life at the time.
Author : Eric James Gallagher
Publisher : Suffolk Records Society
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843834335
Edition and translation of an important legal document, shedding new light on legal developments in medieval England.
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Court records
ISBN :
Author : David Carpenter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300255500
The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III’s rule, from when he first assumed the crown to the moment his personal rule ended Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parliament. Pacific, conciliatory, and deeply religious, Henry brought many years of peace to England and rebuilt Westminster Abbey in honor of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor. He poured money into embellishing his palaces and creating a magnificent court. Yet this investment in "soft power" did not prevent a great revolution in 1258, led by Simon de Montfort, ending Henry's personal rule.Eminent historian David Carpenter brings to life Henry's character and reign as never before. Using source material of unparalleled richness—material that makes it possible to get closer to Henry than any other medieval monarch—Carpenter stresses the king’s achievements as well as his failures while offering an entirely new perspective on the intimate connections between medieval politics and religion.
Author : John Sabapathy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0192587234
The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance. A mentality emerged that trusted to procedures of accountability as a means of controlling officers' conduct. The mentality was not inherently new, but it became qualitatively more complex and quantitatively more widespread in this period, across European countries, and across different sorts of officer. The officers exposed to these methods were not just 'state' ones, but also seignorial, ecclasistical, and university-college officers, as well as urban-communal ones. This study surveys these officers and the practices used to regulate them in England. It places them not only within a British context but also a wide European one and explores how administration, law, politics, and norms tried to control the insolence of office. The devices for institutionalising accountability analysed here reflected an extraordinarily creative response in England, and beyond, to the problem of complex government: inquests, audits, accounts, scrutiny panels, sindication. Many of them have shaped the way in which we think about accountability today. Some remain with us. So too do their practical problems. How can one delegate control effectively? How does accountability relate to responsibility? What relationship does accountability have with justice? This study offers answers for these questions in the Middle Ages, and is the first of its kind dedicated to an examination of this important topic in this period.
Author : Daniel Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1000469875
This book investigates the financial aspects of crusading in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Taking the kingdom of England as a case study, it explores a variety of themes, such as how much crusades cost, how they were financed, how funds were transferred to the East and how crusaders fared financially after their return. Its fundamental argument, in contrast with current historiography, is that it was the "private" fundraising of individuals – not the "public" fundraising of the Crown and the Church – that constituted the life-blood of the crusade movement in the period under consideration. Indeed, it is likely that the crusades were only able to remain central to the religious and political life of England, and indeed western Christendom, because participants, and those in their connection, continued to be willing to sacrifice their own financial wellbeing for the interests of the Holy Land.
Author : David A. Carpenter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195220001
In this comprehensive synthesis canvassing the peoples, economies, religion, languages, and political leadership of medieval Britain, Carpenter weaves together the histories of England, Scotland, and Wales.
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN :
Author : David Robert Butcher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1783271493
Appendix 2 Suffolk's top 25 townships (1524-5 Lay Subsidy) -- Appendix 3 The Lowestoft manorial chief tenements -- Appendix 4 Sixteenth-century merchant fleet details -- Appendix 5 Fairs and markets in Lothingland and Lowestoft -- Appendix 6 Local place-name derivation -- Glossary of medieval terms -- Bibliography -- Index of people -- Index of places -- Index of subjects
Author : David Crook
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1783270675
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change. The years between 1258 and 1276 comprise one of the most influential periods in the Middle Ages in Britain. This turbulent decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between Henry III and his barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before England eventually descended into civil war, a significant proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name. The essays here draw on material available for the first time via the completion of the project to calendar all the Fine Rolls of Henry III; these rolls comprise the last series of records of the English Chancery from that period to become readily available in a convenient form, thereby transforming accessto several important fields of research, including financial, legal, political and social issues. The volume covers topics including the evidential value of the fine rolls themselves and their wider significance for the English polity, developments in legal and financial administration, the roles of women and the church, and the fascinating details of the development of the office of escheator. Related or parallel developments in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are also dealt with, giving a broader British dimension. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln; DAVID CROOK is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Notthingham. Contributors: Nick Barratt, Paul Brand, David Carpenter, David Crook, Paul Dryburgh, Beth Hartland, Philippa Hoskin, Charles Insley, Adrian Jobson, Tony Moore, Alice Taylor, Nicholas Vincent, Scott Waugh, Louise Wilkinson
