The new research here covers a number of aspects of the politics and culture of fourteenth-century England, including religious culture and institutions as illustrated in the cult of Thomas of Lancaster, preaching to women in the later fourteenth century, and in the Church's response to a royal fundraising campaign. There are detailed examinations of prominent and less prominent individuals - Bishop Thomas Hatfield, Agnes Maltravers, and Lord Thomas Despenser - together with investigations of broader policy issues, particularly the dispensation of justice in the reign of Richard II. Finally, the intersection of environmental, political, and economic issues is approached from two very different perspectives, the development of royal landscapes and of the late medieval coal industry.
Contributors: JOHN T. MCQUILLEN, AMANDA RICHARDSON, A. K. MCHARDY, CHRISTIAN D. LIDDY, J. S. BOTHWELL, BETH ALLISON BARR, DIANE MARTIN, HELEN LACEY, JOHN LELAND, MARTYN LAWRENCE, ULRIKE GRASSNICK, MARK ARVANIGIAN J. S. HAMILTON is Professor and Chair of History at Baylor University.
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A fine addition to a series that continues to go from strength to strength. HISTORY
Details
First Published: 20 Jul 2006
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843832201
Pages: 204
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series:
Fourteenth Century EnglandSubject:
Medieval HistoryBIC Class: HBLC1
Details updated on 02 Sep 2010
Contents
- 1 Who was St Thomas of Lancaster?: New Manuscript Evidence
- 2 `Hedging, Ditching and Other Improper Occupations': Royal Landscapes and their Meaning under Edward II and Edward III
- 3 Paying for the Wedding: Edward III as Fundraiser, 1332-3
- 4 The Politics of Privilege: Thomas Hatfield and the Palatinate of Durham, 1345-81
- 5 Agners Maltravers [d. 1375] and Her Husband John [d. 1364]: Rebel Wives, Separate Lives, and Conjugal Visits in Later Medieval England
- 6 Gendering Pastoral Care: John Mirk and his Instructions for Parish Priests
- 7 Prosecution of the Statutes of Provisors and Premunire in the King's Bench, 1377-1394
- 8 `Mercy and truth Preserve the King': Richard II's use of the Royal Pardon in 1397 and 1398
- 9 Aliens in the Pardons of Richard II
- 10 `Too Flattering Sweet to be Substantial'? The Last Months of Thomas, Lord Despenser
- 11 `O Prince, Desyre to Be Honorable': The Deposition of Richard II and Mirrors for Princes
- 12 Regional Politics, Landed Society and the coal Industry in North-east England, 1350-1430
