Piety, Fraternity, and Power
Piety, Fraternity, and Power

Author: David J. F. Crouch

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780952973447

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Detailed investigation of the religious gild, showing its importance to all aspects of medieval life.

Surveillance, Militarism and Drama in the Elizabethan Era
Surveillance, Militarism and Drama in the Elizabethan Era

Author: C. Breight

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-11-07

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 023037302X

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Curtis Breight challenges the view that Renaissance English rulers could not dominate their domestic population. He argues, alternatively, that the Elizabethan state was controlled by the Cecilian faction, which maintained power by focusing English energies outwardly. Cecilians launched relentless assaults by land and sea against England's neighbours. By the 1590s their policies had enriched a few yet destroyed countless people, and this book reads the drama of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare in relation to ongoing national and international conflict.

The Tower Armoury in the Fourteenth Century
The Tower Armoury in the Fourteenth Century

Author: Thom Richardson

Publisher: Royal Armouries

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780948092756

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"The documents surviving from the privy wardrobe, the department which administrated the Tower armoury under Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV, provide a unique insight into the use of arms and armour in England as the Hundred Years War unfolded. Here, Thom Richardson expertly brings these documents to life. He answers many long-standing questions and challenges a number of assumptions, notably about the use of the longbow and the wearing of armour during that formative period of English history. Richardson shows how the previously peripatetic armoury became established in the Tower of London at the outbreak of the Hundred Years War, and grew into the national arsenal which today forms the basis of the Royal Armouries, the national museum of arms and armour."--Publisher's description.