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Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688

This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era also witnessed changes in how loyalty was developed and expressed. The first section focuses on royal propaganda and expressions of loyalty from the gentry and nobility under the Yorkist and early Tudor monarchs, as well as the fifteenth-century Scottish monarchy. The chapters illustrate late-medieval conceptions of loyalty, exploring how they manifested themselves and how they persisted and developed into early modernity. Loyalty to the later Tudors and early Stuarts is scrutinised in the second section, gauging the growing level of dissent in the build-up to the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. The final section dissects the role that the concept of loyalty played during and after the Civil Wars, looking at how divergent groups navigated this turbulent period and examining the ways in which loyalty could be used as a means of surviving the upheaval.

The Household Knights of Edward III
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

The Household Knights of Edward III

First extended survey of the subject, looking at the knights' activities, roles, background and service.

The Fifteenth Century XX
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

The Fifteenth Century XX

"This series pushes the boundaries of knowledge and develops new trends in approach and understanding." ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW As is appropriate in a volume honouring the distinguished scholarship in this field of Dr Rowena E. Archer, wealthy and influential ladies, most notably Alice Chaucer, duchess of Suffolk, take centre stage, alongside successive queens consort of the period, whose councils helped to implement justice. Alice's almshouse at Ewelme provides a fine example of the many institutions which offered care for the elderly in late medieval England, a period when Henry VII placed great emphasis on the burials of his kinsfolk, particularly in Westminster abbey, to ensure that th...

Fourteenth Century England XI
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Fourteenth Century England XI

The fruits of new research on the politics, society and culture of England in the fourteenth century.

Winner and Waster and Its Contexts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Winner and Waster and Its Contexts

First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.

Fourteenth Century England XII
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Fourteenth Century England XII

Essays offer a lively snapshot of important topics.

Documenting Warfare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

Documenting Warfare

Insights from English and French writers on one of the most significant armed conflicts of the Middle Ages

Elite Participation in the Third Crusade
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Elite Participation in the Third Crusade

The motivations behind those who went on the Third Crusade examined through close investigation of their social networks.

A Diabolical Voice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

A Diabolical Voice

In A Diabolical Voice, Justine L. Trombley traces the afterlife of the Mirror of Simple Souls, which circulated anonymously for two centuries in four languages, though not without controversy or condemnation. Widely recognized as one of the most unusual and important mystical treatises of the late Middle Ages, the Mirror was condemned in Paris in 1310 as a heretical work, and its author, Marguerite Porete, was burned at the stake. Trombley identifies alongside the work's increasing positive reception a parallel trend of opposition and condemnation centered specifically around its Latin translation. She's discovered fourteenth- and fifteenth-century theologians, canon lawyers, inquisitors, an...

Rulers, Regions and Retinues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Rulers, Regions and Retinues

Essays on crucial aspects of late medieval history.