An Introduction to the History and Records of the Court of Wards & Liveries
Author: Henry Esmond Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0521041422
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An Introduction to the History and Records of the Courts of Wards and Liveries
Author: H. E. Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521200288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1953, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Court of Wards and Liveries. The court was established on 1540 as a means of administering the system of feudal dues, it was additionally responsible for wardship and livery issues. Formally abolished in 1660, the court had previously ceased to have a function due to the abolition of feudal tenures by the Long Parliament in 1646. Consummately researched, the text was compiled by the author during a period of employment by the Public Record Office, this allowed for extensive access to the Court's records and other important documentation.
Parliament at Work
Author: Chris R. Kyle
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780851158747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe political, social and economic changes which overtook England in the early seventeenth century forced Parliament to adapt from a medieval institution into one with authority over all facets of society; studies focus on particular cases. The political, social and economic changes which overtook England in the early seventeenth century were both powerful and dramatic, forcing Parliament to adapt from a medieval institution into one with authority over all facets ofsociety. Dynastic change, union with Scotland, fiscal reform, civil war, revolution and Restoration required Parliament not only to be at work, but also to discover how to work. These studies focus on change and development in three areas: firstly, the institution of Parliament itself, exploring its growing institutional sophistication and the problems connected with attendance, workload and physical environment; secondly, on Parliament's role within theinstitutional set-up of the constitution, and the structure and relationships of power within the governance of the country; and thirdly, on the public perception of Parliament, and the practicalities of the relationship between Parliament and the wider world. Contributors: JOHN ADAMSON, ROBERT ARMSTRONG, DAVID DEAN, MICHAEL GRAVES, PAUL M. HUNNYBALL, SEAN KELSEY, CHRISTOPHER KYLE, JASON PEACEY, PAUL SEAWARD.
Early Tudor Government, 1485–1558
Author: Steven Gunn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1995-05-10
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1349239658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis marvellous new book sets the developments in the government of England under the early Tudors in the context of recent work on the fifteenth century and on continental Europe.
Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549-1640)
Author: Kristen Abbott Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015-09-18
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1443882917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549–1640) presents an opportunity to understand how texts, performances, politics, and historical topics intersected and informed cultural productions during this period. These analyses of conversational exchanges across genres permit readers to grasp how conversation functioned as both a compositional methodology and an interpretive hermeneutic in early modern England. The essays gathered here adopt eclectic critical approaches from the perspectives of historicism, gender studies, print culture studies, performance studies, object-oriented ontologies, and the digital humanities to collectively argue that “conversation” is not only a site of reproductive intercourse, but one of metamorphic between-ness. As this book demonstrates, conversation extends what is conventionally thought of as “source study” by treating multiple sources as active interlocutors. These essays discuss how writers of this period push the boundaries of conventional, diachronic imitation by engaging with ancient and/or contemporary sources to lend a sense of immediacy to the subject at hand. Each contribution examines the varying degrees to which “conversation” carries within itself a sense of internal crisis, a turning back and forth, a form of sexual and textual intercourse that does not simply reproduce, but metamorphoses with each interaction.
Sir Edward Coke and "The Grievances of the Commonwealth," 1621-1628
Author: Stephen D. White
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1469639556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth
Author: C. W. Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-24
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780521890830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work charts the huge growth of the lower branches of the legal profession in sixteenth-century England..
Joanna of Flanders
Author: Julie Sarpy
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1445688557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew, original research finally solves the riddle of the disappearance of Joanna of Flanders, described by David Hume as 'the most extraordinary woman of the age', early in the Hundred Years War.
Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England
Author: L. R. Poos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-06-23
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 019268860X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLove, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and adroitly manipulated his own and other people's land. The dozens of lawsuits in which the Rishtons were involved, in many different courts, elucidate one family's engagement with law in Tudor England: how they used and misused law, how it shaped their perceptions of rights and mutual obligations, and how it framed litigants' and witnesses' language. Drawing upon trial and estate records, the core of this study is the central narrative of Ralph Rishton's three wives, of litigiousness and violence, marriage and property, and the pursuit of equitable resolutions to disputes, along with countless smaller narratives that vividly capture a culture in its time and place. Alongside that central narrative, L. R. Poos uses the Rishton stories as a starting-point to analyse child marriage, the construction of memory, and the development of local historical identity through antiquarians and the Victorian and Edwardian local press, demonstrating how - from the time of the Rishtons into the twentieth century - historical narratives were continually reshaped and repurposed.
Handbook of British Chronology
Author: E. B. Pryde
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-02-23
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780521563505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of British Chronology is acknowledged as the authoritative and indispensable record of all holders of major offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the fifth century to the late twentieth century. The third edition (which first appeared in 1986) is now available from Cambridge University Press.
