Author : J. Otway-Ruthven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521088459
Miss Otway-Ruthven examines the history of the office of the King's Secretary from 1377, the first appearance of a King's Secretary, to 1509, demonstrating its rise from the comparative unimportance of a confidential clerkship to a position worthy of the attention of a bishop and a fitting instrument of Tudor Government.
Author : Frank Newsam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2024-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1040185614
First published in 1954, The Home Office presents a comprehensive overview of the structure and functions of the Home Office of the Government of the United Kingdom. Sir Frank Newsam describes the principles which underlie the part played by the Home Office in the preservation of order and the maintenance of civil liberty. The book provides an account of the balanced relationships which exist between the Home Office and the local authorities in administering the various services. It discusses themes like the Home Secretary and his functions; the business of the Home Office; public well-being and public safety; the royal prerogative of mercy; nationality and naturalization; administration of justice; and the international work of the Home Office. This is a must read for students of British politics and public administration.
Author : G. L. Harriss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2005
Category : England
ISBN : 9780198228165
The Black Death. The Peasants' Revolt. The Hundred Years War. The War of the Roses. A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and penetrating account of this formative period, Gerald Harriss draws on the research of the last thirty years to illuminate late medieval society at its peak, from the triumphalism of Edward III in 1360 to the collapse of Lancastrian rule. The political narrative centers on the deposition of Richard II in 1399 and the establishment of the House of Lancaster, which was in turn overthrown in the Wars of the Roses. Abroad, Henry V's heroic victory at Agincourt in 1415 led to the English conquest of northern France, lasting until 1450. Both produced long term consequences: the first shaped the English constitution up to the Stuart civil war, while the second generated lasting hostility between England and France, and a residual wariness of military intervention in Europe.
Author : Ralph A. Griffiths
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826435920
King and Countryis a selection of essays and papers from Ralph A. Griffiths, published variously in Wales, England, France and North America between 1964 and 1990. It explores themes in the history of England and Wales in the Fifteenth Centuryand the dominions of the English crown beyond.
Author : Angela Andreani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 135176425X
This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s. Through original sources in the State Papers and Cecil Papers, the book reconstructs the work of the Queen’s clerks and secretaries in the years when the position of principal secretary was formally vacant.
Author : Peter Crooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 131672106X
How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval European empires, while a genuinely world-historical perspective is provided by chapters on China, the Incas and the Ottomans. The editors identify a paradox in how bureaucracy operated on the scale of empires and so help explain why some empires endured for centuries while, in the contemporary world, empires fail almost before they begin. By adopting a cross-chronological and world-historical approach, the book challenges the abiding association of bureaucratic rationality with 'modernity' and the so-called 'Rise of the West'.
Author : Sebastian Sobecki
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198790775
Reassess medieval literature and the relationship between writers and power in England by arguing that major works commissioned by or written for a succession of Lancastrians--Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Prince Edward--reveal that John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and John Fortescue were not propagandists.
Author : Malcolm Graham Allan Vale
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300148739
Chapter 7 LAST WILL AND LEGACY -- CONCLUSION -- appendix -- bibliography -- illustration credits -- index
Author : Bertram Wolffe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300089264
In this widely acclaimed biography, Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent, and saintly monarch and offers instead a finely drawn but critical portrait of an ineffectual ruler. Drawing on widespread contemporary evidence, Wolffe describes the failures of Henry's long reign from 1422 to 1471, which included the collapse of justice, the loss of the French territories, and the final disintegration of his government. He argues that the posthumous cult of Henry was promoted by Henry VII as a way of excusing his uncle's political failures while enhancing the image of the dynasty. This edition includes a new foreword by John Watts that discusses the book and its place in the evolving literature. Reviews of the earlier edition: "A brilliant biography that brings us as near as we are ever likely to come to this elusive personality."--Sunday Times (London) "A powerful, compulsively readable portrait."--Observer "Much learning, skillfully deployed as here, evokes pleasure as well as admiration."--R.L. Storey, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2402 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351666363
First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
