The Dissolution of the Lancastrian Kingship
Author : Anthony Gross
Publisher : Paul Watkins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes
Author : Rosemarie McGerr
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0253001986
Book Description
This seminal study addresses one of the most beautifully decorated 15th-century copies of the New Statutes of England, uncovering how the manuscript's unique interweaving of legal, religious, and literary discourses frames the reader's perception of the work. Taking internal and external evidence into account, Rosemarie McGerr suggests that the manuscript was made for Prince Edward of Lancaster, transforming a legal reference work into a book of instruction in kingship, as well as a means of celebrating the Lancastrians' rightful claim to the English throne during the Wars of the Roses. A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes also explores the role played by the manuscript as a commentary on royal justice and grace for its later owners and offers modern readers a fascinating example of the long-lasting influence of medieval manuscripts on subsequent readers.
The Last Medieval Queens
Author : J. L. Laynesmith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0199247374
Book Description
The last medieval queens of England were Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne Neville, and Elizabeth of York - four very different women whose lives and queenship were dominated by the Wars of the Roses. This book is not a traditional biography but a thematic study of the ideology and practice of queenship. It examines the motivations behind the choice of the first English-born queens, the multi-faceted rituals of coronation, childbirth, and funeral, the divided loyalties between family and king, and the significance of a position at the heart of the English power structure that could only be filled by a woman. It sheds new light on the queens' struggles to defend their children's rights to the throne, and argues that ideologically and politically a queen was integral to the proper exercise of mature kingship in this period.
Humanism, Reading, & English Literature 1430-1530
Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 019921588X
Book Description
Wakelin uses new methods and theories in the history of reading to uncover fresh information about the design, ownership, and marginalia of books in a neglected period in English literary history. This is the first book to identify the origins of the humanist tradition in England in the 15th century.
A Daughter's Love
Author : John Alexander Guy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618499156
Book Description
With the novelistic vividness that made his National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Queen of Scots "a pure pleasure to read" (Washington Post BookWorld), John Guy brings to life Thomas More and his daughter Margaret-- his confidante and collaborator who played a critical role in safeguarding his legacy. Sir Thomas More's life is well known: his opposition to Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, his arrest for treason, his execution and martyrdom. Yet Margaret has been largely airbrushed out of the story in which she played so important a role. John Guy restores her to her rightful place in this captivating account of their relationship. Always her father's favorite child, Margaret was such an accomplished scholar by age eighteen that her work earned praise from Erasmus. She remained devoted to her father after her marriage--and paid the price in estrangement from her husband.When More was thrown into the Tower of London, Margaret collaborated with him on his most famous letters from prison, smuggled them out at great personal risk, even rescued his head after his execution. John Guy returns to original sources that have been ignored by generations of historians to create a dramatic new portrait of both Thomas More and the daughter whose devotion secured his place in history.
Madness in Medieval Law and Custom
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9004187448
Book Description
This collection of essays opens a new discussion about the mind, body, and spirit of the mad in medieval Europe. The authors examine a broad spectrum of mental and emotional issues, which medieval authors point out as ‘unusual’ behavior. With the emerging field of medieval disability studies in mind, the authors have carefully considered legal and cultural descriptions for insight into the perception and understanding of mental impairment. These essays on madness in the Middle Ages elucidate how medieval society conceptualized mental afflictions. Individually, the essays cover aspects of mental impairment from a variety of angles to unearth collectively medieval perspectives on mental affliction. Contributors are James R. King, Kate McGrath, Irina Metzler, Aleksandra Pfau, Cory James Rushton, Margaret Trenchard-Smith, and Wendy J. Turner.
Focus On: 100 Most Popular Knights of the Garter
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1793 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The Royal Image and the English People
Author : Nicola Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351766074
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. For the English people, the image of the monarchy is deeply bound up with the idea of nationhood. This book surveys aspects of England's royal heritage dialogue from the late middle ages to the 19th century. It concentrates on monumental sculpted portraits because that was the way in which the image of the monarchy was customarily presented in the most immediate and permanent form at large scale in the public arena. The aim of such memorials was to consolidate and commemorate shared loyalties and beliefs, focusing on the monarchs. They were sometimes protected by railings, more often than just by their talismanic value. There was widespread resistance to the idea that Oliver Cromwell should be commemorated by public memorial. The English generally remained uncomfortable with the idea of republicanism. The monarchial government of the middle ages, thought to be sanctioned by God, was very different from the figurehead the monarchy has become.
The Hundred Years War (Part III)
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004245650
Book Description
In The Hundred Years War: Further Considerations, sixteen essays consider various economic, legal, military, and psychological aspects of the long conflict that touched much of late-medieval Europe.
Acts and Texts
Author : Laurie Postlewate
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042021918
Book Description
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.
