The Essex Gentry and the County Community in the Fourteenth Century
Author : Jennifer C. Ward
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Essex (England)
ISBN :
Author : Jennifer C. Ward
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Essex (England)
ISBN :
Author : Anne Curry
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843836742
Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research.
Author : Jacqueline Eales
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1907396780
Honoring the memory of Professor Alan Everitt, who advanced the fruitful notion of the county community during the 17th century, this volume proposes some modifications to Everitt's influential hypotheses in the light of the best recent scholarship. With an important reevaluation of political engagement in civil war Kent and an assessment of numerous midland and southern counties as well as Wales, this record evaluates the extraordinary impact of Everitt's book and the debate it provoked. Comprehensive and enlightening, this collection suggests future directions for research into the relationship between the center and localities in 17th-century England.
Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851157764
Biennial volumes of new research on an eventful century coloured by the Plantagenet dynasty.
Author : Richard Gorski
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851159331
A study of the careers of over 1200 sheriffs appointed in England during the fourteenth century.
Author : William Caferro
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2006-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0801888808
Winner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Winner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy. Born in England, Hawkwood 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 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. 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 Britain and Italy, creating an authoritative portrait of Hawkwood as an extraordinary military leader, if not always an admirable human being.
Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780719036002
Author : J. S. Hamilton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1843839172
Fourteenth Century England has quickly established for itself a deserved reputation for its scope and scholarship and for admirably filling a gap in the publication of medieval studies. HISTORY Drawing on a diverse range of documentary, literary and material evidence, the contributors to this volume examine several inter-related topics on political, social and cultural matters in late medieval England. Aspects of both arms production and armigerous society are explored, from the emergence of royal armourers in the early fourteenth century to the social implications of later armour and armorial bearings. Another major focus is the church and religion more broadly. The nature and significance of the ceremonial entry, the adventus, of bishops is explored, as well as the legal impact of provisions in shaping church-state relations in mid-century. Religious constructsof women are considered in a comparative analysis of orthodox and Lollard texts. Finally, a group of papers looks at aspects of politics at the centre, with an examination of the queenship of Isabella of France and the issue of the Mortimer inheritance in the early years of Richard II. J.S. Hamilton is Professor and Chair, Department of History, Baylor University. Contributors: Beth Allison Barr, Philip Caudrey, Katherine Harvey, Mark King, Malcolm Mercer, Shelagh Mitchell, Lisa Benz St John, Charlotte Whatley
Author : Eric Acheson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521524988
An examination of the gentry as land holders, pillars of society, political leaders, family members and individuals.
Author : Christopher Thornton
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1909291943
The wars of the fourteenth-century English kings with France and Scotland resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of men involved in warfare on land and sea. This book draws upon new research to identify and analyze these soldiers at all social levels in the specific context of the county of Essex. New approaches to the history of the later Middle Ages allow important evidence of military service to be correlated with the rich documentary material stemming from landholding, taxation, administration and other aspects of economic and social life. Significant comparisons can then be made: increased demands for taxation and for shipping from maritime communities, for example, cast light on the impact of war upon the 'Home Front'. The uprising of 1381 is considered as the consequence of the intensive militarization of the south and southeast coast of England and the consequent cost to taxpayers. In a series of related chapters which add up to a wide-reaching survey, leading researchers explore key aspects of military, social and economic history in fourteenth-century Essex. From the raising of forces to serve the king, through a study of aristocratic lawlessness which may have been linked to violent experiences on the battlefield, to new ways of analysing data to give insights into men recruited as archers and mariners, and a consideration of military aspects of the Peasants' Revolt, this is a rewarding examination of medieval fighting men which affords much new insight into Essex history.