The English Church in the Fourteenth Century
The English Church in the Fourteenth Century

Author: W.A. Pantin

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0802064116

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An outstanding analysis of the governance of the Church in England, its relations with popes and monarchs as well as intellectual life and religious literature - pastoral, moral, mystical. Originally by Cambridge University Press, 1955.

Fourteenth Century England XIII
Fourteenth Century England XIII

Author: Gwilym Dodd

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2025-02-11

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1783277548

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Essays on a diverse range of topics, presenting the latest research on themes of gender, religion, warfare, the built environment and chronicle-writing of the period. This collection brings into dialogue scholarship on social, religious, economic, military and political history, offering exciting new insights into a range of topics, based upon meticulous research into published and unpublished archival records. Two studies reveal the influence of gendered norms and expectations at different ends of the social spectrum, one focussing on peasant women charged with extramarital sex known as leyrwite, the other on the martial achievements and expectations of Edward III. Several essays examine patronage, property investment and the built environment, with actors ranging from the papacy to religious guilds and members of the gentry. Further contributions provide new perspectives on conflict and violence: a re-examination of how the Peasants' Revolt was recorded in the Anonimalle Chronicle, a consideration of how armies were recruited at the time of civil war in 1321-22, and an investigation of the life and career of Henry Crystede, an Englishman fighting in Ireland.

Town and Countryside in Western Berkshire, C.1327-c.1600
Town and Countryside in Western Berkshire, C.1327-c.1600

Author: Margaret Yates

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 184383328X

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A fresh examination of how society and economy changed at the end of the middle ages, comparing urban and rural experience. The traditional boundary between the medieval and early modern periods is challenged in this new study of social and economic change that bridges the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It addresses the large historical questions -what changed, when and why - through a detailed case study of western Berkshire and Newbury, integrating the experiences of both town and countryside. Newbury is of particular interest being a rising cloth manufacturing centre that had contacts with London and overseas due to its specialist production of kerseys. The evidence comes from original documentary research and the data are clearly presented in tables and graphs. It is a book alive with theactions of people, famous men such as the clothier John Winchcombe known as 'Jack of Newbury', but more notably by the hundreds of individuals, such as William Eyston or Isabella Bullford, who acquired property, cultivated their lands, or, in the case of Isabella, managed the mill complex after her husband's death. MARGARET YATES is Lecturer in History at the University of Reading.

Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500
Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500

Author: P. Schofield

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-12-17

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0230802710

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In recent years, work on the medieval English peasant has tended to stress the degree of interaction between the village and the world beyond its bounds. This book not only provides an overview of this research, but also develops this approach. Phillipp R. Schofield describes the traditional world of the peasant - with attention given to such issues as relations between lord and tenant, and the nature of the peasant family - and places the peasantry of the late middle ages within the wider political, legal, ecclesiastical and commercial world of the medieval community.

Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England
Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England

Author: Adam Lucas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1317146476

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This is the first detailed study of the role of the Church in the commercialization of milling in medieval England. Focusing on the period from the late eleventh to the mid sixteenth centuries, it examines the estate management practices of more than thirty English religious houses founded by the Benedictines, Cistercians, Augustinians and other minor orders, with an emphasis on the role played by mills and milling in the establishment and development of a range of different sized episcopal and conventual foundations. Contrary to the views espoused by a number of prominent historians of technology since the 1930s, the book demonstrates that patterns of mill acquisition, innovation and exploitation were shaped not only by the size, wealth and distribution of a house’s estates, but also by environmental and demographic factors, changing cultural attitudes and legal conventions, prevailing and emergent technical traditions, the personal relations of a house with its patrons, tenants, servants and neighbours, and the entrepreneurial and administrative flair of bishops, abbots, priors and other ecclesiastical officials.

After the Black Death
After the Black Death

Author: Mark Bailey

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0198857888

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The Black Death was the worst pandemic in recorded history. This book presents a major reevaluation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequences in England.