Cheshire and the Tudor State 1480-1560
Author: Tim Thornton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 086193248X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe palatinate of Chester survives Tudor centralisation.
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Social Attitudes and Political Structures in the Fifteenth Century
Author: Tim Thornton
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2001-02-13
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0752494813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume includes papers on political, religious, social and economic history and the history of ideas during the 15th century. The papers challenge existing conceptions and open new avenues of discussion on longstanding debates. Themes covered include parliaments and their relationships with the monarchs of the period, both in Scotland and in England; queens and their role in the 15th century English polity; the ideas that lay behind the English claims to the French throne, and the rituals of peace-making in the Hundred Years War. Debates over the importance of lordship and service are also touched upon, in a paper which examines Lord Hastings' retainers in the defence of Calais, while another chapter discusses the local politics of a small Welsh marcher lordship. The crucial subject of Lancastrian government finances in the 1450s also receives a fresh examination. In religious history, papers examine the activity of monastic propagandists and the religious life of cathedrals through the activity of fraternities based in them. There are also considerations of a noble widow, and of the 15th century rural economy.
Humphrey Newton (1466-1536)
Author: Deborah Youngs
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1843833956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe public and political lives of the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century gentry have been extensively studied, but comparatively little is known of their private lives and beliefs. Humphrey Newton of Pownall, Cheshire, offers a rare and fascinating opportunity to redress the balance, thanks to the fortunate survival of a commonplace book he compiled c.1498-1524. Drawing upon this unique manuscript, this interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional study of Newton explores his family life, landed estate, legal work, piety, and his literary skills [he composed nearly twenty courtly love lyrics]. It charts his social advancement and the self-fashioning of his gentle image, while placing him in the context of current discussions of gentry culture. What makes Newton even more noteworthy is that he was among the unsung and little known stratum of English society historians have labelled the 'lesser' gentry. As such, this book provides the first comprehensive biography of an early Tudor gentleman. Dr DEBORAH YOUNGS is lecturer in medieval history at Swansea University.
Courts, Counties and the Capital in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Diana E. S. Dunn
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tudor Sheriff
Author: Jonathan McGovern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-01-21
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0192848240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSheriffs were among the most important local office-holders in early modern England. They were generalist officers of the king responsible for executing legal process, holding local courts, empanelling juries, making arrests, executing criminals, collecting royal revenue, holding parliamentary elections, and many other vital duties. Although sheriffs have a cameo role in virtually every book about early modern England, the precise nature of their work has remained something of a mystery. The Tudor Sheriff offers the first comprehensive analysis of the shrieval system between 1485 and 1603. It demonstrates that this system was not abandoned to decay in the Tudor period, but was effectively reformed to ensure its continued relevance. Jonathan McGovern shows that sheriffs were not in competition with other branches of local government, such as the Lords Lieutenant and justices of the peace, but rather cooperated effectively with them. Since the office of sheriff was closely related to every other branch of government, a study of the sheriff is also a study of English government at work.
Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England
Author: Steven J. Gunn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0199659834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation This volume reconstructs the lives of Henry VII's new men - low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king's will as he sought to strengthen government after the Wars of the Roses, examining how they exercised power, gained wealth, and spent it to sustain their new-found status.
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 10
Author: Royal Historical Society
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-02
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780521793520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 10 of the Transactions contains essays based on 'the British-Irish Union of 1801'.
Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England
Author: Tim Thornton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781843832591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThornton also sheds light on areas where popular culture and politics were uneasily interlinked: the powerful political influence of those outside elite groups; the variations in political culture across the country; and the considerable continuing power of mystical, supernatural, and 'non-rational' ideas in British social and political life into the nineteenth century."--Jacket.
Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Anglo-Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England
Author: Cynthia Turner Camp
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1843844028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-SaxonEngland, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual "golden age" and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints' remains. This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions. Treating history and ethical practice as inseparable, poets such as Osbern Bokenham, Henry Bradshaw, and John Lydgate reconfigured England's history through its saints, engaging with contemporary concerns about institutional identity, authority, and ethics. Cynthia Turner Camp is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
