Towards a Comparative History of Political Communication, c.1000-1500
January 2021
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POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN CHINESE AND EUROPEAN HISTORY, 800-1600
political communication, mediation, literati, Catholic Church, clergy, political community
‘Political Life
January 2020
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The Shorter Oxford History of Later Medieval Europe
The Problem of the Personal: Tackling Corruption in Later Medieval England, 1250-1550
February 2018
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Anti-corruption in History From Antiquity to the Modern Era
The book addresses a wide range of historical contexts: Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Eurasia, Italy, France, Great Britain and Portugal as well as studies on anticorruption in the Early Modern and Modern era in Romania, the Ottoman ...
Chris Given-Wilson. Henry IV.
February 2018
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The American Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Politics, c.1000-1500: Mediation and Communication
January 2018
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Past and Present
Counsel and the King's Council in England, c.1340-c.1540
December 2016
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Proceedings of the British Academy
‘Counsel’ is a ubiquitous term in historical writing about later medieval and early modern England, and the implications of the various ways in which kings sought, absorbed or rejected it form a recurring theme in political histories of the period. But not since the nineteenth century – when, for medievalists at least, it figured as a form of representation, in a historiography focused on the relations of crown, parliament and the ‘public’ – has counsel been a central element in readings of the political system.
Conclusion
November 2016
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The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt
The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between Imperial Rome and the Reformation.
Counsel and the King's Council in England, c.1340-c.1540
November 2016
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The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707
Yet, major changes in who gave counsel and how it operated were emerging. This volume identifies both the patterns and the moments of change while also recognizing continuities.
Counseling
Some Concluding Thoughts
January 2016
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Disciplined Dissent Strategies of Non-confrontational Protest in Europe from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century
The essays collected here take as their theoretical point of departure the concept of disciplined dissent.
Education
‘The Empire in Retrospect and Prospect: the Plantagenet Empire and the Continent’
January 2016
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The Plantagenet Empire, 1259-1453
From the contents: 0Jean-Philippe Genet, Empire and the English Identity - Reflections on the King of England's Dominium / Len Scales, The Empire in Translation - English Perspectives on Imperium and Emperors, 1220-1440 / Julian Luxford, ...
Introduction
July 2015
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Political Society in Later Medieval England A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter
Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.
History
Political Society in Later Medieval England A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter
July 2015
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Book
'The Beauchamp Affinity: A Study of Bastard Feudalism at Work', English
Historical Review, 95 (1980), pp. 514–33 'Sir ... 729–34 'Law, Justice and
Landowners in Late Medieval England', Law and History Review, 1/2 (1983) pp.
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'New Men', 'New Learning' and 'New Monarchy': Personnel and Policy in Royal Government, 1461-1529
July 2015
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Political Society in Later Medieval England A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter
Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.
History
Conclusion
April 2015
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Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500
This volume, the product of a ten-year international project, brings together specialists in late medieval England and France to explore the multiple mechanisms by which monarchs exercised their power in the final centuries of the Middle ...
History
1511-2011: Philippe de Comines. Law, Writing: Two pillars of sovereignty
January 2015
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500
January 2015
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Book
How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This volume, the product of a ten-year international project, brings together specialists in late medieval England and France to explore the multiple mechanisms by which monarchs exercised their power in the final centuries of the Middle Ages. Collaborative chapters, mostly co-written by experts in each kingdom, cover topics ranging from courts, military networks and public finance; office, justice and the men of the church; to political representation, petitioning, cultural conceptions of political society; and the role of those excluded from formal involvement in politics. The result is a richly detailed and innovative comparison of the nature of government and political life, seen from the point of view of how the king ruled his kingdom, but bringing to bear the methods of social, cultural and economic history to understand the underlying armature of royal power.
Les âges de Britannia: Repenser l’histoire des mondes britanniques (Moyen Âge-XXIe siècle)
Philippe de Commynes: Memory, Betrayal
January 2015
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
The Commons in Medieval England
January 2015
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La légitimité implicite, II
King, Lords and Men in Renaissance England: The Poetry of John Skelton
January 2014
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KINGS, LORDS AND MEN IN SCOTLAND AND BRITAIN, 1300-1625: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JENNY WORMALD
Popular voices in England’s Wars of the Roses, c. 1445 - c. 1485
October 2013
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A Commonwealth of the People: Popular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066-1649.
January 2013
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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY
Conclusions: poltical crisis and reconstruction in late medieval Engalnd and France
January 2013
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Governing in Later Medieval England and France
Popular Voices in the Politics of the Wars of the Roses
January 2013
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The Voices of the People in Medieval Political Communication
The Commons in Medieval England
January 2013
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Internet publication
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The Commons in Medieval England
January 2013
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Monarchy
December 2012
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The Oxford Handbook to Holinshed’s Chronicles
This chapter explores the central theme of monarchy in the Chronicles. It focuses on the treatment of monarchy in England, from its origins in the time of Albion and Brutus, up to the end of the Wars of the Roses and the limits of social memory in Holinshed's time. The chapter argues that the Chronicles are unique in that they take pains to explain why an unchallengeable sovereignty was necessary for the well-being of the commonwealth, and in this they evince the continuing growth in the sophistication and volume of political reflection since the mid-fifteenth century. They are also decidedly un-medieval in their view of the Church, pushing the traditional royal responsibility for defending Christ's religion well beyond its pre-Reformation limits, and making one-time heroes of the communitas – such as Becket, Winchelsey, and Arundel – into ungrateful, ambitious, and contumacious prelates, servants, and types of that great Satan which sat in Rome and sought to undermine the rule of England's godly princes. But in most other respects, the Chronicles' is a traditional, and traditionally royalist, picture.
Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417, by Joseph Canning
December 2012
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
“Common Weal” and “Commonwealth”: England’s Monarchical Republic in the Making
September 2012
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The Languages of Political Society
This paper considers the effects of the reception of classical language and literature in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England, focusing on the theme of republicanism. It argues that Roman republican discourses played a significant part in the legitimation and development of more centralised, conciliar and legalistic forms of royal power in the course and aftermath of the Wars of the Roses.
The Northern Lands: Germanic Europe, c.1270-c.1500, by David Nicholas
June 2011
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Community and Contract in Late Medieval England
May 2011
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Avant le contrat social: Le contrat politique dans l'Occident medieval, XIIIe-XVe siecle
Literature and Complaint in England, 1272-1553
May 2010
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The Making of Polities: Europe, 1300–1500
May 2009
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Book
This major survey of political life in late medieval Europe provides a framework for understanding the developments that shaped this turbulent period. Rather than emphasising crisis, decline, disorder or the birth of the modern state, this account centres on the mixed results of political and governmental growth across the continent. The age of the Hundred Years War, schism and revolt was also a time of rapid growth in jurisdiction, taxation and representation, of spreading literacy and evolving political technique. This mixture of state formation and political convulsion lay at the heart of the 'making of polities'. Offering a full introduction to political events and processes from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth, this book combines a broad, comparative account with discussion of individual regions and states, including eastern and northern Europe alongside the more familiar west and south.
History
Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies
July 2007
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Book
Collecting sixteen thought-provoking new essays by leading medievalists, this volume celebrates the work of the late Rees Davies. Reflecting Davies' interest in identities, political culture and the workings of power in medieval Britain, the essays range across ten centuries, looking at a variety of key topics. Issues explored range from the historical representations of peoples and the changing patterns of power and authority, to the notions of 'core' and 'periphery' and the relationship between local conditions and international movements. The political impact of words and ideas, and the parallels between developments in Wales and those elsewhere in Britain, Ireland and Europe are also discussed. Appreciations of Rees Davies, a bibliography of his works, and Davies' own farewell speech to the History Faculty at the University of Oxford complete this outstanding tribute to a much-missed scholar.
Biography & Autobiography
Public or Plebs: the Changing Meaning of 'the Commons', 1381-1549
July 2007
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Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies
A distinctive feature of English history from the later 14th century to the middle of the 16th is the recurrence of mass popular insurrections presenting collective grievances to the king. In 1381, 1450, and 1497, the rebels, or petitioners, marched on London to obtain redress. Similar moves were planned, but headed off, in 1536 and perhaps also 1549. In each rising the leaders stressed their loyalty to the king, their concern with the common welfare of the realm, and their representation of common opinion. After 1381 they also enunciated a clear sense of public duty. While the government responded punitively in the aftermath of each insurrection, its initial reactions were typically more muted. In part, this was pragmatism — a reflection of the sheer difficulty of countering popular revolt when the whole political and military apparatus depended so heavily on the compliance of local people; but it was also a tacit recognition that displays of common dissatisfaction possessed some legitimacy. If remedy was sought by the ‘commons’, or ‘commoners’, or ‘community’, whether they rose for truth, freedom, the honour and welfare of the king, or the common weal or the commonwealth, the ruler might feel an obligation to listen. This chapter focuses on the claim on the part of the participants to be, and to represent, the ‘commons’. It argues that the full significance of this claim has not been widely appreciated; that the changing meanings of ‘common’ terminology have gone unrecognized; and that the consequences of these changes have been under-explored.
Biography & Autobiography
Usurpation in England: a Paradox of State Growth
March 2005
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Coups d'état à la fin du moyen âge? Aux fondements du pouvoir politique en Europe occidentale
Forgé par Gabriel Naudé, au temps baroque d'une raison d'État triomphante, le concept de « coup d'État » peut-il s'appliquer à des âges antérieurs, en particulier à celui de la genèse médiévale de l'État moderne ? C'est à cette question d'histoire rétrospective qu'ont tenté de répondre les auteurs de cet ouvrage. Leurs réponses, qui dessinent un vaste panorama occidental et comparatiste - de l'Angleterre à la péninsule italienne et de la péninsule Ibérique à la Suède - tendent à démontrer que, bien avant de devenir un concept, le coup d'État a d'abord été une pratique généralisée. Car, quelle que soit la nature du régime politique en vigueur ici ou là, que le coup d'État vienne du dedans ou du dehors, qu'il soit perpétré par ceux qui ont le pouvoir ou par ceux qui le contestent et projettent de s'en emparer, il ramène aux fondements même d'une construction étatique en quête d'assurance et de réassurance. En d'autres termes, le coup d'État est comme une pratique constituante.
History
Beauchamp, John, first Baron Beauchamp of Powick (c. 1400-1475), nobleman and administrator
September 2004
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Internet publication
Beauchamp, John, first Baron Beauchamp of Powick (c. 1400-1475), nobleman and administrator, was the son and eventually the heir of Sir William Beauchamp of Powick in Worcestershire (c.1370-c.1421) and his wife, Katherine Usflete (d. after 1436). Sir William had been a royal retainer under Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry ...
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Beaumont, John, first Viscount Beaumont (1409?-1460), magnate and courtier
September 2004
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Internet publication
Beaumont, John, first Viscount Beaumont (1409?-1460), magnate and courtier, was the elder son and heir of Henry, fifth Baron Beaumont of Folkingham, Lincolnshire (1379/80-1413) and Elizabeth (d. 1427), daughter of William, fifth Baron Willoughby of Eresby. He was one of the most powerful lords in eastern England during the reign ...
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Pole, William de la, first duke of Suffolk (1396-1450), administrator and magnate
September 2004
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Internet publication
Early life and war service | The foundations of Suffolk's ascendancy, 1430-1436 | The beginnings of hegemony, 1436-1437 | The consolidation of supremacy, 1438-1445 | Suffolk and foreign policy, 1433-1449 | Suffolk's regime, 1445-1449 | Tensions and difficulties, 1447-1449 | Downfall, 1449-1450 | Death and judgement
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Richard of York, third duke of York (1411-1460), magnate and claimant to the English throne
September 2004
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Internet publication
Youth and inheritance | Service in France | York and English politics before 1450 | Estates and connections | The making of York's rebellion | York and the politics of the 1450s | Exile, return, and death
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Politics, War and Public Life
September 2003
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Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547
Leading medieval scholars have contributed essays on subjects which encompass all aspects of life in this vibrant and influential time in English history - from war and politics to royalty and patronage, religion and the relationship with Europe, music and architecture. A magnificent range of images portrays the very finest works of art, with architecture a major feature in a period when English churches and cathedrals were at their most splendid. Many of the remarkable surviving examples of stone work, wood carving, stained glass and gold and silver plate have been gathered together for the exhibition and book. There are 360 catalogue entries in total, combining to provide a complete record of this ground-breaking exhibition and documenting many objects that have never previously been published. The text is a major contribution to scholarship and with the magnificent illustrations results in a superbly designed and produced book which will be the definitive work on the subject for some time to come.
Architecture
Was there a Lancastrian Court?
January 2003
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The Lancastrian Court
The Policie in Christen Remes: Bishop Russell's Parliamentary Sermons of 1483-84
September 2002
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Authority and Consent in Tudor England: Essays Presented to C.S.L. Davies
Brought together as a tribute to the distinguished Tudor historian C.S.L. Davies, the essays in this collection address key themes in the current historiography of the Tudor period. These include the nature, causes and consequences of change in English government, society and religion, the relationship of centre, localities and peripheral areas in the Tudor state, the regulation of belief and conduct, and the dynamics of England's relations with her neighbours. The contributors, colleagues and students of Cliff Davies, are all leading scholars who have provided fresh and interesting essays reflecting the wide ranging inquisitiveness characteristic of his own work. They seek to cross as he has done the traditional boundaries between the medieval and early modern periods and between social, political and religious history. A coherent collection in their own right, these essays, by showing the many new directions open to those studying the Tudor period, provide a fitting tribute to such an influential scholar.
History
Looking for the State in Later Medieval England
August 2002
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Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England
Discussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority.
Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet, display takes us directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display. Among the themes are family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. The objects studied include monumental effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts, jewels, plate, seals and coins.
History
Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship
April 1999
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Book
Henry VI (1422–61) was one of the most spectacularly inadequate kings of England, and his reign dissolved into the conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. Yet he held on to his throne for thirty-nine years and, for almost thirty of them, without much difficulty. What was the nature of Henry's inadequacy, and why did it have such ambivalent and complicated results? Since the 1970s most histories of fifteenth-century England have focused on the individual interests and private connections of politicians as a means of making sense of politics. By contrast, this 1996 work argues that we can understand what happened in Henry VI's reign only if we look at common interests and public connections as well. Ultimately it is the problem of establishing royal authority which emerges as paramount, with the supposedly factious and 'overmighty' nobility appearing as doomed but devoted servants of the state.
The End of the Middle Ages? England in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
January 1998
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Book
England in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries John Lovett Watts. These developments, together with others more closely related to its own particular conditions, have had a complex effect on the historiography of England in this period.
England
Ideas, Principles & Politics
August 1995
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The Wars of the Roses
On 1 May 1450, the little fleet carrying the duke of Suffolk to the continent was waylaid by a ship called the Nicholas of the Tower, whose men came and took the duke prisoner. When Suffolk showed them the letters of protection which Henry VI had given him, the men rejected them, allegedly declaring that ‘they did not know the said king, but they well knew the crown of England’ and adding that ‘the aforesaid crown was the community of the said realm and that the community of the realm was the crown of that realm’. Emboldened by this declaration, they went on to raise a banner of St George and to proclaim that all those who wished to stand with them and the said community should follow it, and join with them in taking and beheading all the traitors then in England.
A Newe Ffundacion of is Crowne: Monarchy in the Age of Henry VII
January 1995
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The Reign of Henry VII
This volume offers an important new interpretation of a reign pivotal to English historiography, the recent interpretative debate around which is encapsulated in its elusive central figure. Was Henry the mean-minded and anti-noble bureaucrat who signed his accounts himself, or the lavish patron of the arts living in a splendid court? Was he a `new' or a traditional monarch? Many of the fourteen essays here amplify the recent trend towards seeing Henry in the latter context, amidst his churches and building projects, the stained glass he commissioned for them, his books, courtiers and even the music sung for him. Yet they also go beyond the public face: we are enabled to get closer to Henry the man, his family and the atmosphere of his court through piety, poetry and iconography, which reveal a sombre tone alongside the public splendour. Indeed both suggest a reign of constant paranoia and endemic insecurity, which negated the achievements of some of its medieval predecessors. Nevertheless, the reign may have inadvertently laid the foundations for a new monarchy after all.
History
Butler, James, first earl of Wiltshire and fifth earl of Ormond (1420-1461), magnate
Internet publication
Butler, James, first earl of Wiltshire and fifth earl of Ormond (1420-1461), magnate, was the eldest son of James Butler, fourth earl of Ormond (1390-1452), and Joan Beauchamp (d. 1430), daughter of William Beauchamp, first Baron Bergavenny (c. 1343-1411), and Joan Beauchamp, Lady Bergavenny (1375-1435). He was born on 24 ...
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The Pressure of the Public on Later Medieval Politics
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The Fifteenth Century IV: Political Culture in Late Medieval Britain
The concept of 'political culture' has become very fashionable in the last thirty years, but only recently has it been consciously taken up by practitioners of late-medieval English history, who have argued for the need to acknowledge the role of ideas in politics. While this work has focused on elite political culture, interest in the subject has been growing among historians of towns and villages, especially as they have begun to recognise the importance of both internal politics and national government in the affairs of townsmen and peasants. This volume, the product of a conference on political culture in the late middle ages, explores the subject from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of spheres. It is hoped that it will put the subject firmly on the map for the study of late-medieval England and lead to further exploration of political culture in this period.
