The Cartulary of St Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick
The Cartulary of St Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick

Author: C. R. Fonge

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 9781843831075

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The introduction in the edition examines the foundation of the college, its acquisition of property, and its constitutional development and character."--BOOK JACKET.

The Legend of Guy of Warwick
The Legend of Guy of Warwick

Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1000525570

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First published in 1996. This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick, especially Richard de Beauchamp, inspired the spread of the legend, but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions, Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of Gui de Warewic, a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages, a new French prose romance, a didactic tale in the Gesta Romanorum, and late medieval versions in Celtic, German, and Catalan, as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant, an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions, mostly folkloric.

Warwick the Kingmaker
Warwick the Kingmaker

Author: Michael Hicks

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0470751932

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This book illuminates Warwick's character and motivation, showing that he was an emotional, charming, and popular man with a strong sense of family loyalty. It is the first full study of this compelling figure within the context of political life in late medieval England.

Locality and Polity
Locality and Polity

Author: Christine Carpenter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-02-28

Total Pages: 813

ISBN-13: 0521370167

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The book is intended as a contribution to the history of England as a whole in the fifteenth century and to the study of the long-term development of the English landed classes and the English constitution.

Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1543-1609: The First Collegiate Church, 1543-1556
Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1543-1609: The First Collegiate Church, 1543-1556

Author: Westminster Abbey

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780851156880

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First volume in the new Westminster Abbey Record Series, covering changes in Abbey ritual during the Reformation. This book is the first volume in a new venture, the Westminster Abbey Record Series, which aims to publish documents, calendars, lists and indexes from the Abbey's large and continuous archive of over a thousand years, making itscontents available both to scholars and to a wider interested public. This edition of the earliest Chapter Act Book of the Dean and Chapter is an essential source for the impact of the Reformation at Westminster. The years covered in this volume show the business of setting up a reformed cathedral; the administration of the Abbey's large estate is also well illustrated, including the relations with the powerful courtiers and politicians who were among the Abbey's tenants. Dr CHARLES KNIGHTON gained his Ph.D. from Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Early Music History: Volume 19
Early Music History: Volume 19

Author: Iain Fenlon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-04-19

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780521790734

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Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music, and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume 19 include: Ritual and Ceremony in the Spanish Royal Chapel, c. 1559-c. 1561; Urban Minstrels in Late Medieval Southern France; Mapping the Soundscapes: Church Music in English Towns 1450-1550; A New Look at Old-Roman Chant.

Guy of Warwick
Guy of Warwick

Author: Alison Wiggins

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1843841258

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The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture. Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a central place in the nation's cultural heritage from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor spans the Guy tradition from its beginnings in Anglo-Norman and Middle English romance right through to the plays and prints of the early modern period and Spenser's Faerie Queene, including the visual tradition in manuscript illustration and material culture as well as the intersection of the legend with local and national history. This volume addresses important questions regarding the continuities and remaking of romance material, and therelation between life and literature. Topics discussed are sensitive to current critical concerns and include translation, reception, magnate ambition, East-West relations, the construction of "Englishness" and national identity, and the literary value of "popular" romance. ALISON WIGGINS is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow; ROSALIND FIELD is Reader in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Note on ebook images: Due to limited rights we are unable to make all images in this book available in the ebook version. If you'd like to purchase the ebook regardless, please email us on [email protected] to obtain a PDF of the images. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. CONTRIBUTORS: JUDITH WEISS, MARIANNE AILES, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, ALISON WIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROBERT ALLEN ROUSE, DAVID GRIFFITH, MARTHA W. DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, ANDREW KING, HELEN COOPER

Tradition and Change
Tradition and Change

Author: Diana Greenway

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-07-18

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780521524995

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Essays on the cultures of England and Normandy in the period after the Norman Conquest.