Author: Great Britain. Privy CouncilPublisher: London, Quaritch
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Select Cases Before the King's Council, 1243-1482
Author: Great Britain. Privy CouncilPublisher: London, Quaritch
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Illinois Law Review
Author: Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship
Author: John WattsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521653930
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A re-evaluation of politics and political structure in the reign of Henry VI (1422-61), first published in 1996.
Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011
Author: Publisher: Douglas Richardson
ISBN: 1461045207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2635
Book Description
Northwestern University Law Review
Author: Henry IV
Author: Chris Given-WilsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
Henry IV (1399–1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehensive and nuanced biography restores to his rightful place a king often overlooked in favor of his illustrious progeny. Henry faced the usual problems of usurpers: foreign wars, rebellions, and plots, as well as the ambitions and demands of the Lancastrian retainers who had helped him win the throne. By 1406 his rule was broadly established, and although he became ill shortly after this and never fully recovered, he retained ultimate power until his death. Using a wide variety of previously untapped archival materials, Chris Given-Wilson reveals a cultured, extravagant, and skeptical monarch who crushed opposition ruthlessly but never quite succeeded in satisfying the expectations of his own supporters.
King Edward II
Author: Roy Martin HainesPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077357056X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence. This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by indolence, vengefulness, vacillation in relationships with France, deranged policies at home, and constitutional wrangling, ultimately brought to an end by a minor insurgency led by his vindictive wife and her paramour, a disaffected baron.
Locality and Polity
Author: Christine CarpenterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521370167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
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.
The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 6, C.1300-c.1415
Author: Rosamond McKitterickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521362900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
Book Description
The sixth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the fourteenth century, a period dominated by plague, other natural disasters and war which brought to an end three centuries of economic growth and cultural expansion in Christian Europe, but one which also saw important developments in government, religious and intellectual life, and new cultural and artistic patterns. Part I sets the scene by discussion of general themes in the theory and practice of government, religion, social and economic history, and culture. Part II deals with the individual histories of the states of western Europe; Part III with that of the Church at the time of the Avignon papacy and the Great Schism; and Part IV with eastern and northern Europe, Byzantium and the early Ottomans, giving particular attention to the social and economic relations with westerners and those of other civilisations in the Mediterranean.
Edward I
Author: Michael PrestwichPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300146655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Edward I—one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages—pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he acted as peacemaker during the 1280s but became involved in a bitter war with Philip IV a decade later. This book is the definitive account of a remarkable king and his long and significant reign. Widely praised when it was first published in 1988, it is now reissued with a new introduction and updated bibliographic guide. Praise for the earlier edition:"A masterly achievement. . . . A work of enduring value and one certain to remain the standard life for many years."—Times Literary Supplement "A fine book: learned, judicious, carefully thought out and skillfully presented. It is as near comprehensive as any single volume could be."—History Today "To have died more revered than any other English monarch was an outstanding achievement; and it is worthily commemorated by this outstanding addition to the . . . corpus of royal biographies."—Times Education Supplement