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Book SynopsisShows how it was not just the London elite and City merchants who had connections to British India. Over the long eighteenth century, thousands of men and women from the English provinces lived and worked in the East Indies. Yet the provincial commitment of human, financial and social capital to ventures in the East Indies has largely been disregarded. This book challenges the widely held view that British rule in India was driven primarily by the interests of London merchants and national political elites. Based on extensive original research, including the piecing together of biographical fragments of over 400 men and women from the Cumbrian counties, setting them in their family, social, financial and cultural networks, and outlining the details of their sojourns in the East,the book portrays a provincial world heavily implicated in the East Indies. It discusses how provincial people's encounter with the East Indies was driven by the desire of middling folk and gentry to promote, sustain, and, in some cases, revive fortunes, position and influence in their own provincial milieu, and thereby demonstrates how provincial preoccupations shaped the East Indies, and how East Indies experiences shaped provincial life. KaySaville-Smith is Director of the Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment in Wellington, New Zealand. She completed her doctorate at the University of Lancaster.Trade ReviewBy demonstrating the provincial origins, motivations, and deployment of the returns from the East, the book offers scholars of the EIC, imperialism and global trade useful micro-foundational insights into the motivations and effects of imperial encounters. It also contributes to debates on the development and relative importance of provincial interests and experiences, as opposed to those of the national and metropolitan. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *Makes a valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on British interactions with the East Indies and studies of provincial life in eighteenth-century Britain. * JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES *By bringing the local into conversation with the global [it] enables a range of new interpretations and charts a path for future investigation. * SOCIAL HISTORY *This book powerfully demonstrates the value of what is sometimes...marginalised as just `local' history. [It] ought to promote a rethinking not just of Cumbrian history but of provincial motives for involvement in Empire by the ambitious and the needy in other counties. -- Stephen Constantine * CWAAS NEWSLETTER *Saville-Smith has written a robustly researched and stimulating study, with a spirited argument for the importance of archives in understanding a multilayered world. -- Adrian Green * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsThe Provincial World and Global Encounters Cumbrian Contexts, Patterns and Lives Why Go to the East Indies? 'Passage to India' Returning and Returns Conclusion: 'Use of Globes' Appendix A: East Indies Enumerated Cumbrian Men Appendix B: East Indies Enumerated Cumbrian Women Appendix C: East Indies Women, Associated Cumbrian Men and Their Children Appendix D: Hudleston, Kin Connections and the East Indies Appendix E: East Indies Connections of the Winders, Stephensons and Fawcetts Appendix F: East Indies Connections of the Braddylls, Wilsons and Gales Appendix G: Kin Connections of Catherine Holme Appendix H: Kin Connections of Thomas Cust Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThrough a study of horses, the book reveals how an important and growing aristocratic estate was managed, where the aristocrat at the centre of it - William Cavendish - travelled and how he spent his time, and how horses were oneof the means by which he asserted his social status. This book, by a leading authority on early modern social and cultural history, examines in detail how an important English aristocrat managed his horses. At the same time, it discusses how horses and the uses to which they were put were a very significant social statement and a forceful assertion of status and the right to political power. Based on detailed original research in the archives of Chatsworth House, the book explores the breeding and rearing, the buying and selling, and the care and maintenance of horses, showing how these activities fitted in to the overall management of the earl's large estates. It outlines the uses of horses as the earl and his retinue travelled to and from family, the county assizes and quarter sessions, social visits and London for "the season" and to attend Court and Parliament. It also considers the use of horses in sport: hawking, hunting, racing and the other ways in which visitors were entertained. Overall, the book provides a great deal of detail on the management of horses in the period and also on the yearly cycle of activities of a typical aristocrat engaged in service, pleasure and power. PETER EDWARDS is an Emeritus Professor of Early Modern British Social History at the University of Roehampton. He has published numerous books including The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England and Horse and Man in Early Modern England.Trade ReviewCan be recommended not only to those who have a particular interest in the field but to any reader who wants to gain a detailed view of what was entailed in the administration of an aristocratic estate. * FACHRS NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsIntroduction Running the Family Business: Landed Wealth and Estate Management Funding the Aristocratic Lifestyle: Demesne Farming and the Price Revolution Breeding and Rearing Horses in and for One's Image Caveat Emptor: Buying and Selling Horses Grooming to Perfection: The Care and Maintenance of Horses Visiting One's 'Neighbours': Social Life in the Provinces The Call of Duty: The Aristocracy as Public Servants On the Road: Travel to London for the Season The Public and Private Lives of Elite Visitors to the Capital Passing the Time with the Aristocracy Conclusion Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA collection that celebrates the research of Margaret Spufford, a "game-changing" historian who shifted the focus away from the political and social elite in urban communities to the "other 98%" in local and rural areas. This collection celebrates and evaluates the seminal research of Margaret Spufford, a leading historian of early modern English social and economic history. Spufford played a crucial role in the broadening of English social and cultural history, shifting the focus away from the political and social elite in urban communities to the "other 98%" in local and rural areas and challenging assumptions about the limited intellectual worlds of rural people. She was also an early historian of consumption patterns, whose work on the clothing trade remains the authoritative history of this industry and its consumers. Faith, Place and People in Early Modern England reassesses Spufford's contribution to the shape of historical study. Each chapter rethinks a key aspect of her work on local and rural communities: the value of particular historical records; the interactions between religious conformists anddissenters; social and religious change; credit and finance; clothing and consumption. Throughout, the contributors develop Spufford's model of integrating close community studies into a broader picture, while retaining an awareness of the singularity of individuals and localities. In doing so, the book indicates how far "Spuffordian" approaches can continue to shape the future direction of early modern history . TREVOR DEAN is Professor of History at the University of Roehampton; GLYN PARRY is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Roehampton; EDWARD VALLANCE is Professor of Early Modern British political culture at the University of Roehampton. Contributors: ADRIAN AILES, DAVID CRESSY, TREVOR DEAN, CATHERINE FERGUSON, HENRY FRENCH, STEVE HINDLE, CHRISTOPHER MARSH, GLYN PARRY, WILLIAM SHEILS, PETER SPUFFORD, DANAE TANKARD, EDWARD VALLANCE, PATRICIA WYLLIETrade ReviewAn excellent collection, rich in detail, wide-ranging, thoroughly grounded in socio-economic history and the sources, and a fitting tribute to the life and abiding influence of Margaret Spufford. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY *For those familiar with the scholarship of Margaret Spufford, Faith, Place and People in Early Modern England is a sublime paean commemorating her contributions to the field of social and economic history. This compilation of essays, many written by former students and colleagues of Spufford, not only displays the influence she had on those around her, but also demonstrates the ongoing impact she continues to exert in the study of early modern history. * H-NET *The collection as a whole is well produced and nicely illustrated. The essays are interesting and of a consistently high academic quality. -- Jonathan Healey * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Trevor Dean and Glyn Parry and Edward Vallance Margaret - Peter Spufford Religious Divisions in the Localities: Catholics, Puritans and the Established Church before the Civil Wars - William Sheils 'Neither Godly professors, nor dumb dogges': Reconstructing Conformist Protestant Beliefs and Practice in Earls Colne, Essex, c.1570-1620 - Henry French The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend John Perkins: Scenes of Clerical Life in Late Seventeenth-Century England - Steve Hindle The Heralds and the Hearth Tax - Adrian Ailes The Hearth Tax and the Poor in Post-Restoration Woking - Catherine Ferguson Reassessing the English 'Financial Revolution': Credit Transferability in Probate Records of Sedbergh and Maidstone, 1610-1790 - Patricia Wyllie 'Flowered silk is little worn but gold and silver striped is much worn': Metropolitan Clothing Consumption in Late Seventeenth-Century Sussex - Danae Tankard A Cuckold in Space: The 'Ballading' of Stephen Seagar, 1669 - Christopher W. Marsh Marginal People in a Stressful Culture: Itinerants, Gypsies and 'Counterfeit Egyptians' in Margaret Spufford's England - David Cressy Bibliography of Margaret Spufford's works Index

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Book SynopsisThe theme of warfare as a collective enterprise investigated in the theatres of both land and sea. From warhorses to the men-at-arms who rode them; armies that were raised to the lords who recruited, led, administered, and financed them; and ships to the mariners who crewed them; few aspects of the organisation and logistics ofwar in late medieval England have escaped the scholarly attention, or failed to benefit from the insights, of Dr Andrew Ayton. The concept of the military community, with its emphasis on warfare as a collective social enterprise, has always lain at the heart of his work; he has shown in particular how this age of warfare is characterised by related but intersecting military communities, marked not only by the social and political relationships within armies and navies, but by communities of mind, experience, and enterprise. The essays in this volume, ranging from the late thirteenth to the early fifteenth century, address various aspects of this idea. They offer investigations of soldiers' and mariners' equipment; their obligations, functions, status, and recruitment; and the range and duration of their service. Gary P. Baker is a Research Associate at the University of East Angliaand a Researcher in History at the University of Groningen; Craig L. Lambert is Lecturer in Maritime History at the University of Southampton; David Simpkin teaches history at Birkenhead Sixth-Form College. Contributors: Gary P. Baker, Adrian R. Bell, Peter Coss, Anne Curry, Robert W. Jones, Andy King, Craig L. Lambert, Tony K. Moore, J.J.N. Palmer, Philip Preston, Michael Prestwich, Matthew Raven, Clifford J. Rogers, Nigel Saul, David Simpkin.Trade ReviewThose who consult this valuable collection will learn not only how prosopography can enhance our understanding of the forces available to 14th-century English kings, but also how English armies grew 'organically' out of the country's social system. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *Table of ContentsAndrew Ayton: A Recognition of his Work Foreword by Nigel Saul Adrew Ayton: A Brief Tribute 'Big and Beautiful'. Destriers in Edward I's Armies - Michael C Prestwich Cum Equis Discoopertis: The 'Irish' Hobelar in the English Armies of the Fourteenth Century - Robert W. Jones Andrew Ayton, the Military Community and the Evolution of the Gentry in Fourteenth-Century England - Peter Coss Knights Banneret, Military Recruitment and Social Status, c.1270-c.1420: A View from the Reign of Edward I - David Simpkin Sir Henry of Beaumont and his Retainers: The Dynamics of a Lord's Military Retinues and Affinity in Early Fourteenth-Century England - Andy King Financing the Dynamics of Recruitment: King, Earls and Government in Edwardian England, 1330-60 - Matt Raven The Symbolic Meaning of Edward III's Garter Badge - Clifford J. Rogers Sir Robert Knolles' Expedition to France in 1370: New Perspectives - Gary Baker The Organisation and Financing of English Expeditions to the Baltic during the Later Middle Ages - Tony K. Moore The Organisation and Financing of English Expeditions to the Baltic during the Later Middle Ages - Adrian R. Bell Naval Service and the Cinque Ports, 1322-1453 - Craig Lambert The Garrison Establishment in Lancastrian Normandy in 1436 according to Surviving Lists in Bibliotheque Nationale de France manuscrit francais 25773 - Anne Curry Bibliography of the Writings of Andrew Ayton

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Book SynopsisThe Journal of Medieval Military History continues to consolidate its now assured position as the leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval Warfare The articles here offer a wide range of approaches to medieval warfare. They include traditional studies of strategy (on Baybars) and the logistics of Edward II's wars, as well as cultural history (an examination of chivalry in Guy of Warwick) intellectual history (a broad analysis of strategic theory in the Middle Ages), and social history (on knightly training in arms). The Hundred Years War is studied using cutting-edge methodology (data-drivenanalysis of skirmishes) and by tackling relatively new areas of inquiry (environmental history). There is also a close reading of Carolingian documents, which sheds new light on armies and warfare in the time of Charles the Great. Contributors: Ronald W. Braasch III, Pierre Galle, Walter Goffart, Carl I. Hammer, John Hosler, Rabei G. Khamisy, Ilana Krug, Danny Lake-Giguère, Brian Price.Table of ContentsIn the Field with Charlemagne, 791 - Carl Hammer The Recruitment of Freemen into the Carolingian Army, or How Far May One Argue from Silence? - Walter Goffart Baybars' Strategy of War against the Franks - Rabei G. Khamisy Food, Famine and Edward II's Military Failures - Ilana Krug The Impacts of Warfare on Woodland Exploitation in Late Medieval Normandy (1364-1380): Royal Forests as Military Assets during the Hundred Years' War - Danny Lake-Giguère Exercises in Arms: the Physical and Mental Combat Training of Men-at-Arms in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries - Pierre Gaite The Skirmish: A Statistical Analysis of Minor Combats during the Hundred Years' War: 1337-1453 - Ronald W. Braasch Yron & Stele: Chivalric Ethos, Martial Pedagogy, Equipment, and Combat Technique in the Early Fourteenth Century Middle English Version of Guy of Warwick - Brian R. Price Reframing the Conversation on Medieval Military Strategy - John D. Hosler

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Book SynopsisThe book highlights the scale of disorder and the many difficulties faced by the authorities. This book explores the connexion between collective action, popular politics and policing in Ireland from the end of the Williamite war in 1691 to the outbreak of the Whiteboy agrarian protest in 1761. It considers the impact madeby the people who maintained order - civilian officers, the army and militias, and bands of irregular forces - outlining not only the many problems that they faced but also the effects on Irish society of their abuses. The book highlights the conflict between authorities, who were enforcing laws, and crowds, who were enforcing popular notions of justice, as well as the changes taking place in the ethics of law enforcement. It shows how increasing taxes collected by the Irish government, used mainly to pay for the British army, resulted in a proliferation of violent protests in most parts of Ireland in the early eighteenth century. In addition, the book discusses popular attitudesand belief systems, examines the conduct of rioters and members of the forces of order and reveals the moral compasses used during violent confrontations on both sides of the legal divide. Overall, the book's investigation of large-scale disorder leads us to a better understanding of the relationships between rulers and the ruled in Ireland in this period. TIMOTHY D. WATT is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of History at University College Dublin.Trade Review[T]his is a vibrant study that sheds new light on the nature of popular protest, provides groundbreaking work on rural violence, and offers new perspectives on the relations between dominant and subordinate groups in eighteenth-century Ireland. -- Eamon Darcy * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Civil law enforcers in a 'self-policing' society The standing army and policing Local militias, irregular forces and the 'tory wars' 'Mobs', authorities and popular politics A 'rebellious traditional culture' in Ireland 'Riot and rescue' and anti-taxation protest Journeymen, masters and 'collective bargaining by riot' in Dublin Factional gangs, authorities and corruption of the law in Dublin Conclusion Appendix: Irish Combination Acts, 1705-1780 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInterdisciplinary study of chapels provides a more complex and fuller picture of engagement with the Church and Christianity in the Middle Ages. From the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Latin Christendom was increasingly focussed, both institutionally and culturally, on Rome and the papacy. A key element of these changes was a growing concern with the provision of pastoralcare and the standardisation of practices and beliefs. However, whilst parish churches have received considerable scholarly attention, chapels have been largely neglected, despite the fact that they were widespread in the landscape of medieval Britain and Norway, found in locations ranging from villages to castles, and central to the life of many. This book, the first major comparative study of the subject, begins by examining what a chapel was, whoused them, and their purpose. Using archaeological remains, the wider parish landscape - settlements, transport and geography - and historical records such as papal letters, it then categorises chapels according to function and their relationship with the parish church, showing that they served a far greater range of purposes than has previously been assumed. The author also considers whether the drive for uniformity had an impact on religious landscapesin Britain and Norway, arguing that there is little evidence of a Viking impact on chapel organisation in the British Isles, with the evidence pointing towards Scandinavian adoption of pre-existing organisation and local cults. Sarah Thomas gained her PhD from the University of Glasgow; she is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stirling.Trade ReviewA mine of fascinating examples and case studies. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *A most welcome and timely addition to the literature..[A]n important contribution to our understanding of a hitherto largely neglected aspect of the medieval Church. * INNES REVIEW *Clearly written and mercifully free of academic jargon, this is a volume well-worth having on the shelf. * ARCHAEOLOGIA CAMBRENSIS *[A] compelling exploration of a hitherto unresearched topic [that] left this reviewer wanting to know more about the subthemes that emerge within the discussion. -- Richard Oram * Speculum *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Roles of Parishes and Parish Churches in the Community Dependent Chapels Private Chapels Locational Chapels: Distinctive Places and Commemorations Cult Chapels: Pilgrimage, Local, National and International Chapels in the Ecclesiastical Landscape: Uniformity or Localism? Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn engaging account of the life of a nineteenth-century priest. The Revd Benjamin Armstrong, for many years vicar of the market town of East Dereham, Norfolk, is best-known for what have been described as "one of England's greatest clerical diaries", eleven volumes spanning his whole adult life, between 1850 and 1888. This first full biography puts his story into the context of the period in which he lived: a time of turmoil in the church, with its conflict between high and low forms of service, and theological arguments, stirred up not least by controversies over Darwin's theories of creation. It also vividly portrays rural life at a time of great change, when society became more fluid, railways allowed the economy to grow and develop, and thevote was extended. We see this through the eyes of Armstrong himself, a fine example of the then "new-style" Church of England clergy who lived in their parishes, took more services than their predecessors, supported their schools and showed a genuine concern for the well-being of their parishioners. By the time he retired, church life in Dereham had been transformed, with congregations typically of 1,000 at each of the Sunday services. Armstrong also served on various Local Boards, as well as setting up the Literary Institute, the Rifle Volunteers and supporting musical and cultural events. He also had a full social life; his friends included prominent townspeople and the local clergy, gentry and aristocracy -- and there are incisive pen portraits of many of his associates and their eccentricities. These activities are set against the background of his family life, with its moments of tragedy and worry, including the death of a young child and the elopement of another. Dr SUSANNA WADE MARTINS is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of East Anglia. Her previous publications includeThe East Anglian Countryside: Changing Landscapes 1870-1950 with Tom Williamson (2008), Coke of Norfolk, 1754-1842 (2009) and The Conservation Movement in Norfolk - A History (2015).Trade ReviewIn these pages, we encounter elopement, child and adult mortality within the family... the birth of trade unions and political wrangles...This is more than a biography: it is an interesting contribution to the social history of Victorian Norfolk, and, indeed, to the changes in rural life more widely within 19th­century England...An excellent read. * CHURCH TIMES *Provid[es] a fascinating window into the experience of a Victorian middle-class family...clearly written with many illustrations including old maps of Dereham...a thorough and enjoyable biography. * DEREHAM ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY *Susanna Wade Martins' valuable illustrated biography will [.] be of considerable interest to historians and students of the Victorian Church. It is especially recommended for libraries. * THE READER *A Vicar in Victorian Norfolk offers a valuable picture of nineteenth-century life that will interest church and social historians alike. -- Patrick Armstrong * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Early life The move to Dereham The Norfolk Clergy Church life The Building Legacy Schools Town life Family life Friends The later years Armstrong, a man of his time Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn examination of how academic colleges commemorated their patrons in a rich variety of ways. WINNER of a 2019 Cambridgeshire Association for Local History award. The people of medieval Cambridge chose to be remembered after their deaths in a variety of ways - through prayers, Masses and charitable acts, and bytomb monuments, liturgical furnishings and other gifts. The colleges of the university, alongside their educational role, arranged commemorative services for their founders, fellows and benefactors. Together with the town's parishchurches and religious houses, the colleges provided intercessory services and resting places for the dead. This collection explores how the myriad of commemorative enterprises complemented and competed as locations where the living and the dead from "town and gown" could meet. Contributors analyse the commemorative practices of the Franciscan friars, the colleges of Corpus Christi, Trinity Hall and King's, and within Lady Margaret Beaufort's Cambridge household; the depictions of academic and legal dress on memorial brasses, and the use and survival of these brasses. The volume highlights, for the first time, the role of the medieval university colleges within the family ofcommemorative institutions; in offering a new and broader view of commemoration across an urban environment, it also provides a rich case-study for scholars of the medieval Church, town, and university. JOHN S. LEE is Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York; CHRISTIAN STEER is Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of History, University of York. Contributors: Sir John Baker, Richard Barber, Claire GobbiDaunton, Peter Murray Jones, Elizabeth A. New, Susan Powell, Michael Robson, Nicholas Rogers.Trade ReviewWill be useful to those interested in late medieval urban commemorative practice, and it offers some genuinely new insight into the peculiar commemorative environment created by the colleges and their unique educational/spiritual/social role. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *This is an extremely interesting collection of essays that add up to rather more than the sum of their parts. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *[An] excellent and thought-provoking volume. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *A fine production. * CHURCH MONUMENTS *Splendidly informative. * PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY *The authors of this book have created a piece that attempts to push our understanding of the dynamics within town and countryside and their effects on networks of commemoration. * THE RICARDIAN *A well-executed volume that serves as the first foray in contextualizing a university town against the multiplicity of commemorative strategies that were available in pre-Reformation England. In a book that draws heavily on material culture, the accompanying images and map are both necessary and excellent. * URBAN HISTORY *This volume is a significant contribution to the study of commemoration in all its various guises and your reviewer has no hesitation in recommending this to all who study commemoration in the Middle Ages. * MEDIEVAL MEMORIA RESEARCH *Table of ContentsIntroduction: In Fellowship with the Dead - Christian Steer Monuments and Memory: A University Town in Late Medieval England - John S. Lee The Commemoration of the Living and the Dead at the Friars Minor of Cambridge - Michael Robson The Foundation of Corpus Christi College Cambridge and the City of London - Richard Barber Patrons and Benefactors: The Masters of Trinity Hall in the Later Middle Ages - Elizabeth A. New and Claire Gobbi Daunton A Comparison of Academical and Legal Costume on Memorial Brasses - John Baker Commemoration at a Royal College - Peter Murray Jones Cambridge Commemorations of the Household of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) - Susan Powell 'The Stones are all disrobed': Reasons for the Presence and Absence of Monumental Brasses in Cambridge - Nicholas Rogers Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe idea of what an "eyewitness" account is here scrutinised through examination of key Crusading texts. Eyewitness is a familiar label that historians apply to numerous pieces of evidence. It carries compelling connotations of trustworthiness and particular proximity to the lived experience of historical actors. But it has received surprisingly little critical attention. This book seeks to open up discussion of what we mean when we label a historical source in this way. Through a close analysis of accounts of the Second, Third and Fourth Crusades, aswell as an in-depth discussion of recent research by cognitive and social psychologists into perception and memory, this book challenges historians of the Middle Ages to revisit their often unexamined assumptions about the place of eyewitness narratives within the taxonomies of historical evidence. It is for the most part impossible to situate the authors of the texts studied here, viewed as historical actors, in precise spatial and temporal relation to the action that they purport to describe. Nor can we ever be truly certain what they actually saw. In what, therefore, does the authors' eyewitness status reside, and is this, indeed, a valid category of analysis? This book argues that the most productive way in which to approach the figure of the autoptic author is not as some floating presence close to historical events, validating our knowledge of them, but as an artefact of the text's meaning-makingoperations, in particular as these are opened up to scrutiny by narratological concepts such as the narrator, focalization and storyworld. The conclusion that emerges is that there is no single understanding of eyewitness runningthrough the texts, for all their substantive and thematic similarities; each fashions its narratorial voice in different ways as a function of its particular story-telling strategies. MARCUS BULL is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel HillTrade ReviewA stimulating book. * WAR IN HISTORY *This book is an undoubted academic tour de force, furthering modern understanding of several canonical 'crusade' narratives and challenging the prominence of the eyewitness in historical analysis. -- Andrew Buck University College Dublin * SPECULUM *This richly interdisciplinary book should benefit anyone teaching or researching historiography, memory, literature, or the crusades. * SEHEPUNKTE *This well-researched study examines the problems of human memory and perception, and includes a lengthy chapter on recent psychological research into the accuracy of eyewitness accounts. Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Medieval and Modern Approaches to Eyewitnessing and Narratology as an Analytical Tool Memory and Psychological Research into Eyewitnessing The Second Crusade: The De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi and Odo of Deuil's De Profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem The Third Crusade: Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte and Points of Comparison and Contrast Geoffrey of Villehardouin's and Robert of Clari's Narratives of the Fourth Crusade Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA photographic reprint of the rare edition,first published in 1912, of the `Fulda Sacramentary' (Gottingen, UB, Cod. theol. 231), a 10th-century manuscript written at Fulda which represents a distinct recension of the Gregorian Sacramentary, possibly connected with the scholarly activities of Hrabanus Maurus (d.856). The Fulda Sacramentary was richly illuminated; it is also a rich repository of prayers and mass formulas, and its ample contents include aprayer in Old High German.

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Book SynopsisThis series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The vitality and diversity of research into the late medieval period are exemplified by the contents of this volume. A central theme is the medieval Church: examinations of the process of ordination, the parishioners of Dartford in Kent and the influence of their learned vicar, how monastic chroniclers changed their focus as the century progressed, the perhaps unjustified reputation of Bishop Ayscough of Salisbury, and the significance of Edward IV's charter of ecclesiastical liberties. Another strand concentrates on Ireland, to explore both the complex relations between the Gaelic-speaking peoples of the west and the Stewart monarchy in Scotland, and the status and participation in government of the English settled near Dublin. Unusual perspectives on London are derived from a study of those engaged in identity theft there at the start of the century, and two heralds' accounts of the public processions andelaborate funeral rites accorded to a French ambassador at its end. Contributors: Des Atkinson, Brian Coleman, Zosia Edwards, Simon Egan, Charles Giry-Deloison, Daniel Gosling, Samuel Lane, David Lepine, Claire MachtTable of ContentsChanges in Monastic Historical Writing Throughout the Long Fifteenth Century - Claire Macht 'Such Great Merits': The Pastoral Influence of a Learned Resident Vicar, John Hornley of Dartford - David N Lepine Getting Connected: the Medieval Ordinand and his Search for Titulus - Desmond Atkinson The Political Career of William Ayscough, Bishop of Salisbury, 1438-50 - Samuel Lane Edward IV's Charta de Libertatibus Clericorum - Daniel Gosling A Playground of the Scots? Gaelic Ireland and the Stewart Monarchy in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries - Simon Egan An English Gentry Abroad: the Gentry of English Ireland - Brian Coleman Identity Theft in Later Medieval London - Zosia Edwards Dying on Duty: A French Ambassador's Funeral in London in 1512 - Charles Giry-Deloison

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Book SynopsisFresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church. Priests were ubiquitous figures in the Anglo-Saxon world: they acted as educators, agents of royal authority, scribes, and dealers in real estate. But what set priests apart from the society in which they lived was the authority to provide pastoral care and their ability to use the written word. Early medieval bishops saw books as indispensable to a priest's duties and episcopal legislation frequently provided lists of books that priests were to have: tools of the trade for the secular clergy. These books are not only an exceedingly valuable window into pastoral care, but also a barometer for the changes taking place in the English church of the tenth and eleventh centuries. This first full-length study of Anglo-Saxon priests' books examines a wide array of evidence, including booklists, music, liturgy, narrative, and, crucially, the surviving manuscripts. The volume opens with a consideration of the context of a priest's life and work, moving on to investigate the issues of clerical literacy and the availability of books to priests, uncovering avenues for priestly education and elucidating the role that the secular clergy played in channels of manuscript production and distribution. The second part analyses the documentary and manuscript evidence for certain classes of priests' books, challenging existing thought and arguing that two poorly understood manuscripts are in fact books for priests. GERALD P. DYSON is Assistant Professor of History at Kentucky Christian University.Trade ReviewA compelling and original book....This outstanding first book...has launched a medieval historian of tremendous promise. * ANGLIA *A book not just for historians but for all medievalists who work on the texts, both Latin and vernacular, of Anglo-Saxon England. * LIBRARY & INFORMATION HISTORY *Dyson's study of Anglo-Saxon priests' books, the first full-length study of its kind, advances our understanding of the secular priests who formed the largest literate group in tenth- and eleventh-century England and whose ministries touched the lives of most Christians. Deeply researched, judiciously argued, and clearly written, it offers an accessible overview of priestly expectations and duties, and will prove a reliable guide to further exploration and discovery of the texts and contexts of late Anglo-Saxon pastoral care. -- Robert K. Upchurch * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *[A] carefully argued and learned account of how the clergy in pre-Conquest England were able to obtain liturgical books and put them to use in pastoral care. -- Julia Barrow * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Priests, Books, and Pastoral Care "Ne cunnon þæt leden understandan": Issues of Clerical Literacy Demand and Supply: Production and Provision of Books for Priests Preaching and Homiletic Books for Priests Performing the Liturgy: Priests' Books for the Mass and Office Locating Penitentials, Manuals, and Computi Conclusions Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe life of "that notorious woman", Lucy de Thweng, is used as a prism through which to consider the agency of aristocratic women in the Middle Ages. The Yorkshire heiress, Lucy de Thweng, was married as a child to her first husband but later divorced him, entered into an adulterous relationship with another man, was forced into marriage to a second husband, and then, after a period of widowhood, married for the third time to a congenial partner of her own choice. This sounds a remarkable and unusual story - but was it? This book uses the episodes of Lucy's life to explore how far she was exceptional in her time and rank and highlights aspects of personality and personal relationships which are not often recognized. It undertakes extensive investigations into divorce in contemporary aristocratic families and extra-marital sexual relationships by women, as well as discussing the marriage of heiresses and the pressures to remarry which widows endured. These show that the theoretical religious and secular restraints on marriage and sex were often ignored, by both men and women, and how women, particularly if they were heiresses, were able to make their own decisions in these matters. As the legitimate procreation of children within the licensed environment of marriage was the forum for the succession to landed estates, the book also considers how this behaviour affected those estates. BRIDGET WELLS-FURBY is an independent scholar whose interests lie chiefly in late medieval landed estates and their context.Trade ReviewA very welcome addition to the existing historiography on the women of the late medieval aristocracy....This highly enjoyable book will be valuable for postgraduate students and researchers of English legal and social history. * NORTHERN HISTORY *Wells-Furby has given us more information about Lucy de Thweng than we have about most of her contemporaries of comparable status. Certainly, the full story pretty much vindicates Lucy from nineteenth-century censure. This book.sets her in a broader context - women wanting some share in shaping their personal as well as their public (heiress) lives. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *We gain throughWells-Furby's book a more nuanced appreciation for the possibilities of women's agency within the constricted patriarchal structures of the English landholding elite in the first half of the fourteenth century. -- Shannon McSheffrey * Speculum *Table of ContentsIntroduction Birth and Family; inheritance and disinheritance Wardship and first marriage Separation and divorce Adultery and fornication Second marriage Widowhood Third Marriage Death Reflections Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture. Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition. More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary tastes, art and manners, as well as socialhierarchies, political events and religious practices; its impact is everywhere. This work aims to provide an accessible and holistic survey of the subject. Its chapters, by leading experts in the field, cover a wide range of areas: the tournament, arms and armour, the chivalric society's organisation in peace and war, its literature and its landscape. They also consider the gendered nature of chivalry, its propensity for violence, and its post-medieval decline and reinvention in the early modern and modern periods. It will be invaluable to the student and the scholar of chivalry alike. ROBERT W. JONES is a Visiting Scholar in History, Franklin and Marshall College; PETER COSS is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Cardiff University Contributors: Richard Barber, Joanna Bellis, Matthew Bennett, Sam Claussen, Peter Coss, Oliver Creighton, David Green, Robert W. Jones, Megan G. Leitch, Ralph Moffat, Helen J. Nicholson, Clare Simmons, David Simpkin, Peter Sposato, Louise J. Wilkinson, Matthew WoodcockTrade ReviewA Companion to Chivalry is an elegant, well-considered volume that is of interest to both students and specialists, [...] it is a must-have for university libraries. * NOTTINGHAM MEDIEVAL STUDIES *A Companion to Chivalry provides a masterful summary of half a century of scholarship on medieval chivalry, and will undoubtedly prove a useful reference point for graduate students, whilst clarifying for specialists the current state of the existing scholarship, as well as new avenues worth exploring in the future. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Overall this is a superb collection, a suitable companion to Keen's 1984 masterpiece, Chivalry. It usefully updates and expands Keen's work, highlighting subsequent scholarship and serving as a roadmap for students and scholars interested in chivalric ideas. * H-NET *En conclusion, A Companion to Chivalry - qui aurait pu s'intituler A Companion to Chivalries, compte tenu de la multiplicité des démarches - remplit sa mission. Cet ouvrage trouvera sa place entre les mains des étudiants comme des spécialistes, d'autant plus que l'objet-livre lui-même, en couleurs sur papier glacé, est d'une facture admirable. * SOCIAL HISTORY / HISTOIRE SOCIALE *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Robert W. Jones The Origins and Diffusion of Chivalry - Peter Coss The Organisation of Chivalric Society - David Simpkin The Secular Orders: Chivalry in the Service of the State - David Green The Military Orders - Helen J. Nicholson Marshalling the Chivalric Elite for War - Robert W. Jones Chivalric Violence - Samuel A. Claussen and Peter Sposato Chivalry in the Tournament and Pas d'Armes - Richard Barber Heraldry and Heralds - Robert W. Jones Arms and Armour - Ralph Moffat Constructing Chivalric Landscapes: Aristocratic Spaces Between Image and Reality - Oliver H. Creighton Gendered Chivalry - Louise J. Wilkinson Chivalric Literature - Joanna Bellis and Megan G. Leitch Manuals of Warfare and Chivalry - Matthew Bennett The End of Chivalry? Survivals and Revivals of the Tudor Age - Matthew Woodcock Chivalric Medievalism - Clare A Simmons Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFirst full-length study of the notion and concept of old age in early medieval England. How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested? This first full survey of the Anglo-Saxon cultural conceptualisation of old age, as manifested and reflected in the texts and artwork of the inhabitants of early medieval England, presents a more nuanced and complicated picture. The author argues that although senescence was associated with the potential for wisdom and pious living, the Anglo-Saxons also anticipated various social, psychological and physical repercussions of growing old. Their attitude towards elderly men and women - whether they were saints, warriors or kings - was equally ambivalent. Multidisciplinary in approach, this book makes use of a wide variety of sources, ranging from the visual arts to hagiography, homiletic literature and heroic poetry. Individual chapters deal with early medieval definitions ofthe life cycle; the merits and drawbacks of old age as represented in Anglo-Saxon homilies and wisdom poetry; the hagiographic topos of elderly saints; the portrayal of grey-haired warriors in heroic literature; Beowulf asa mirror for elderly kings; and the cultural roles attributed to old women. THIJS PORCK is Assistant Professor of Medieval English, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, Leiden University.Trade ReviewAt once entertaining and erudite, this scholarly book makes an important case for an Anglo-Saxon attitude to old age as a time of trial, which only makes the most impressive in society - be they warriors, kings, saints, and perhaps even women - could overcome. -- FOLKLOREAn important and interesting monograph. It is clearly and elegantly written and considers an impressive array of evidence drawn from philology, literature, history, archaeology, prosopography, and art history. * ANGLIA *This rich and highly informative book concludes with an extensive bibliography and a rather detailed index. It is a joy to learn so much about old age in early medieval England through Porck's meticulous research. He has consulted a vast range of relevant sources and offered convincing analyses. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *A detailed and interesting cultural study.which provides a useful model for studies of later periods. * FACHRS NEWSLETTER *Combining good judgment with ample learning in both Germanic philology and intellectual history, Porck has produced a valuable contribution to knowledge that is as stimulating as it is rigorous. * MODERN PHILOLOGY *A pleasure to read. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Thijs Porck's book on old age in England up to the eleventh century, the first full-length study of this topic, provides a vigorous and readable survey. * Speculum *Table of ContentsIntroduction Definitions of old age Merits of old age Drawbacks of old age frode fyrnwitan: Old saints in Anglo-Saxon hagiography hare hilderincas: Old warriors in Anglo-Saxon England ealde eðelweardas: Beowulf as a mirror of elderly kings gamole geomeowlan: Old women in Anglo-Saxon England Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the growth of civic power in the turbulent arena of late medieval London. In the late fourteenth century, London's government, through mismanagement and negligence, experienced a series of crises. Relationships with the crown were tested; competing factions sought to wrest power from the hands of the once all-powerful victualling guilds; revolt in the streets in 1381 targeted the institutions of royal as well as civic power; and, between 1392 and 1397, King Richard removed the liberties of the city and appointed his own wardensto govern in place of the mayor of London. This book examines the strategies employed by the generation of London aldermen who governed after 1397 to regain control of their city. By examining a range of interdisciplinary sources, including manuscript and printed books, administrative records, accounts of civic ritual and epitaphs, the author shows how, by carefully constructing the idea of a civic community united by shared political concerns and spiritual ambitions, a small number of men virtually monopolised power in the capital. More generally, this is an exploration of the mentalities of those who sought civic power in the late Middle Ages and provokes the question: whygovern, and for whom? DAVID HARRY is Lecturer in History at the University of Chester.Trade Review[Well] written and accessible to non-specialists. -- SPECULUMHarry's thoughtful analysis gives us a new blueprint for understanding the complex forces at work in fashioning new political relationships in post-plague London. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This book will be invaluable for those who want to understand how the governors of late medieval cities established and justified their positions in society. * THE RICARDIAN *[A] very timely, welcome, and important book. -- Paul Griffiths * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Common profit and charity in late medieval London Radical London, 1376-1386 Reconfiguring political authority Civic ceremony and staging the limits of authority The exemplary dead Spiritual authority and the common profit Print and the pursuit of the common profit Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFirst multi-disciplinary study of the cultural and social milieu of the post-medieval castle. The castle was an imposing architectural landmark in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Castles were much more than lordly residences: they were accommodation to guests and servants, spaces of interaction between the powerful and the powerless, and part of larger networks of tenants, parks, and other properties. These structures were political, symbolic, residential, and military, and shaped the ways in which people consumed the landscape and interacted with the local communities around them. This volume offers the first interdisciplinary study of the socio-cultural understanding of the castle in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, a period duringwhich the castle has largely been seen as in decline. Bringing together a wide range of source material - from architectural remains and archaeological finds to household records and political papers - it investigates the personnel of the castle; the use of space for politics and hospitality; the landscape; ideas of privacy; and the creation of a visual legacy. By focusing on such an iconic structure, the book allows us to see some of the ways in which men and women were negotiating the space around them on a daily basis; and just as importantly, it reveals the impact that the local communities had on the spaces of the castle. AUDREY M. THORSTAD teaches in the Department of History, University of North Texas.Trade ReviewA very readable and solid introduction to the non-royal great houses in England...is essential reading for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. * ARCHAEOLOGIA CAMBRENSIS *Commendably detailed, thorough and fluent. * INNES REVIEW *In bringing a methodologically diverse approach to a subject that crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, particularly history and archaeology, Thorstad's work will be of interest to those working in these fields, and she is surely right to argue that "Castles . . . cannot be interpreted in isolation from the people who occupied them" (210). This fresh approach is very welcome. -- James Ross * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *[F]ollows a valuable trend in castle studies by turning away from study of the thickest walls with the most scars to focus instead on interesting cultural spaces within and without. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Architecture as a Story Politics and Governance The Landscape The Household Hospitality Private Spaces Memory and Commemoration In Closing: Architecture as Legacy Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExamines the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. This book deals with the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Little has been written on this early formative period for the British security state, which began in earnest as a response to the Fenian dynamite campaign of the 1880s. Based on newly declassified documents, Solomon weaves together separate narrative threads which converge to paint a complex picture of the institutional innovations and personal rivalries that produced Britain's first national political police. The interactions between high-ranking bureaucrats, policemen and politicians reveal how often conflicting ideas on controlling organized radicalism coalesced into a unified counter-subversive strategy. Stressing the distinctness of the early British model of political policing, the narrative goes past the confines of a scholarly account by using source material to flesh out multidimensional characters, ranging from choleric Home Secretaries to remorseful anarchist double agents embroiled in a high-stakes and often unscrupulous combination of espionage, collusion and betrayal.Table of ContentsIntroduction Prologue 'A spider's web of Police Communication' 'Panic and indifference' Mr Jenkinson goes to London 'The new detective army' 'Waiting games' 'A long and complicated inquiry' The Battle of Trafalgar Square Scandal Averted 'A bomb has burst' 'Men of bad character' 'Surtout pas trop de zèle' 'We do not prosecute opinions' Dangerous Aliens 'A doctrine of lawlessness' 'Suffrage forces in the field' The Waning of Militancy and the Rise of Counter-espionage Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA detailed examination of the March system - the special administrative arrangements which applied on both sides of the border - how it was applied and how it evolved as national political circumstances changed. The Anglo-Scottish borderlands of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provide an excellent window into early modern state formation, diplomacy, and cross-border interactions during a key moment in history. In the early modernperiod, the Anglo-Scottish border was transformed from an established line of demarcation between two independent kingdoms into a political obstacle. The people and administrators of the borderlands faced intense pressure after the Union of the Crowns in 1603, as King James VI/I sought to eliminate the borderline and turn the region into the "Middle Shires" of a united Great Britain. This book shows that, though the official borderline disappeared after union, the unique administrative arrangements, social and economic bonds of kinship, and built landscape served to uphold the notion of continued separation between the kingdoms. It highlights the movement of peoples across the borderline, collaboration attempts between local officials, and the formation of temporary cross-border alliances but also the assertion of national differences through periodic lawlessness, conflict, and outright war. The book thus demonstrates the complexities of the common border zone and the significance of the border in shaping distinct national identities. JENNA M. SCHULTZ teaches in the Department of History at the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota.Trade ReviewExcellent Study * THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY *Schultz provides us with a well-researched and engaging and detailed account of the events surrounding the Union of the Crowns and how that merger affected the people and policies on the border between England and Scotland. This book is an important contribution to this part of the scholarly conversation about politics and identity along this long disputed region of Great Britain. -- Emily Herff * Scotia *Table of ContentsIntroduction Administration Borderers Border Towns and Fortifications Moments of Crisis Conclusion Appendix 1: List of Wardens Appendix 2: List of Lords Lieutenants Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a variety of angles and approaches. The essays in this volume continue the Journal's tradition of groundbreaking interdisciplinary work. The volume opens with a survey of the discipline of medieval clothing and textiles, written by founding editor Gale R. Owen-Crocker. The range of the other essays extends chronologically from the early Middle Ages through the fifteenth century and covers a variety of disciplines. Topics include the conception of the author as a "wordweaver" in the literatures of Anglo-Saxon England; intertextual literary identities established through clothing in the Nibelungenlied and the Völsunga Saga; the historical record of clothing and textiles at the court of King John of England; medallion silks, their use in Western Europe, and their representation in art; the vestments of Beguines and other penitential movements in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; and a depiction of heraldic textile weaving inlate-medieval art. Contributors: Tina Anderlini, Joanne W. Anderson, Maren Clegg Hyer, Alejandra Concha Sahli, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth M. Swedo, Hugh ThomasTrade ReviewThe seven articles in this issue exhibit the excellent scholarship for which the series is known. * PARERGON *The seven chapters provide eloquent and compelling testimony to the existence of a deeply embedded and vibrant fashion system throughout the Middle Ages. The breadth and precision of scholarship contained in this volume underscores the importance of the Medieval Clothing and Textiles project to all people working and interested in dress, irrespective of chronology. * JOURNAL OF DRESS HISTORY *Table of ContentsPreface Old Rags, New Responses: Medieval Dress and Textiles - Gale R. Owen-Crocker Text/Textile: "Wordweaving" in the Literatures of Anglo-Saxon England - Maren Clegg Hyer Unfolding Identities: The Intertextual Roles of Clothing in the Nibelungenlied and Völsunga Saga - Elizabeth M. Swedo Clothing and Textiles at the Court of King John of England, 1199-1216 - Hugh M Thomas Dressing the Sacred: Medallion Silks and their Use in Western Medieval Europe - Tina Anderlini Habit Envy: Extra-Religious Groups, Attire, and the Search for Legitimation Outside the Institutionalized Religious Orders - Alejandra Concha Sahli The Loom, the Lady and her Family Chapels: Weaving Identity in Late Medieval Art - Joanne W. Anderson Recent Books of Interest

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Book SynopsisDetailed examination of the letters of Edward I reveals them to be powerful and sophisticated political tools. Highly commended for the Royal Studies Journal Book Prize, 2022 As formulaic in appearance as they are abundant in the archives, it is easy to underestimate the power of the letters generated by medieval governments, but these acts of communication were more than mere containers of information. Operating at the intersection of the spoken and the written, the performed and the observed, they produced a discourse that maximized royal authority and promoted solidarity between sender and recipient. This book situates letters within medieval theories of composition and habits of reception, to argue that even mundane letters of governance were rhetorical texts. It focuses on the example of Edward I of England, whose rhetorical prowess was noted, often critically, by contemporaries. It shows how the king's correspondence varied in tone, vocabulary and structure across his reign and between recipients, revealing an unexpected dynamism of political discourse. Moving between historical context and close readings of individual letters, this volume identifies letter-writing as an art through which the king and his government attempted to negotiate and mould relationships with political communities and diplomatic interlocutors alike.Trade Review[An] interesting, dynamic and hugely important contribution to our understanding of the period. -- HISTORY AUSTRALIAKathleen Neal's first monograph is an outstanding contribution, not only to the study of Edward I's letters, but also to the understanding of letter-writing, rhetoric, and epistolarity in general, and constitutes a model for future work in royal correspondence. -- ROYAL STUDIES JOURNALAn impressive work... offers an important and much-needed study of medieval letters and the language of power, using Edward I's letters to illustrate how language was manipulated to sustain models of power and authority. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Letters and the Language of Power Royal Letters: The Authority of a Form Rhetorical Refinement: Epistolary Editing and its Implications Announcing the Message: Communities of Reception and Royal Ideology 'Dear Cousin': Affect and Epistolarity Beyond Borders Keeping Friends Close: Strategies of Epistolary Alignment Rhetoric Under Strain: Re-writing Royal Epistolarity Conclusion. Royal Epistolarity: The Voice of the King Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRevisionist approach to the question of the authenticity - or not - of the documents in the Book of Llandaf. Awarded the Francis Jones Prize in Welsh History 2019 by Jesus College Oxford The early-twelfth-century Book of Llandaf is rightly notorious for its bogus documents - but it also provides valuable information on the earlymedieval history of south-east Wales and the adjacent parts of England. This study focuses on its 159 charters, which purport to date from the fifth century to the eleventh, arguing that most of them are genuine seventh-century and later documents that were adapted and "improved" to impress Rome and Canterbury in the context of Bishop Urban of Llandaf's struggles in 1119-34 against the bishops of St Davids and Hereford and the "invasion" of monks from English houses such as Gloucester and Tewkesbury. After assembling other evidence for the existence of pre-twelfth-century Welsh charters, the author defends the authenticity of most of the Llandaf charters' witness lists, elucidatestheir chronology, and analyses the processes of manipulation and expansion that led to the extant Book of Llandaf. This leads him to reassess the extent to which historians can exploit the rehabilitated charters as an indicator of social and economic change between the seventh and eleventh centuries and as a source for the secular and ecclesiastical history of south-east Wales and western England. PATRICK SIMS-WILLIAMS is a Fellow of the British Academy; he was formerly Reader in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge and Professor of Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University.Trade ReviewSims-Williams's magisterial survey of this difficult and intricate source lays a firm foundation on which future workers can build. * MONMOUTHSHIRE ANTIQUARY *A work of the greatest importance...It will be the foundation of all future work on the Book of Llandaf, and on many topics it will remain the last word for a very long time to come. Clearly and economically written, and produced to the high standard which we have come to expect from the publishers, it is a monument of modern scholarship. * ARCHAEOLOGIA CAMBRENSIS *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Book of Llandaf and the early Welsh charter The origin of the Llandaf claims The charters in the Book of Llandaf: forgeries or recensions? The authenticity of the witness lists The integrity of the charters The chronology of the charters The status of the donors and recipients of the charters The fake diplomatic of the Book of Llandaf The Book of Llandaf: first edition or seventh enlarged revision? A new approach to the compilation of the Book of Llandaf The evidence of the doublets The Book of Llandaf as an indicator of social and economic change The royal genealogical framework The episcopal framework Afterword Appendix I: Concordance and chart showing the paginal and chronological order of the charters Appendix II: Maps of grants to bishops Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEssays exploring how England was governed during a tumultuous period. The twin themes of power and authority in fourteenth-century England, a century of transition between the high and late medieval polities, run throughout this volume, reflecting Professor Given-Wilson's seminal work in the area. Covering the period between Edward I's final years and the tyranny of Richard II, the volume encompasses political, social, economic and administrative history through four major lens: central governance, aristocratic politics, warfare, and English power abroad. Topics covered include royal administrative efficiency; the machinations of government clerks; the relationship between the crown and market forces; the changing nature of noble titles and lordship;and ideas of court politics, favouritism and loyalty. Military policy is also examined, looking at army composition and definitions of "war" and "rebellion". The book concludes with a detailed study of treasonous English captainsaround Calais and a broader examination of Plantagenet ambitions on the European stage. REMY AMBUHL is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Southampton; JAMES BOTHWELL is Lecturer in Later Medieval Historyat the University of Leicester; LAURA TOMPKINS is Research Manager at Historic Royal Palaces. Contributors: Andrew Ayton, Michael Bennett, Wendy R. Childs, Gwilym Dodd, David Green, J.S. Hamilton, Andy King, Alison McHardy, Mark Ormrod, Michael Prestwich, Bridget Wells-FurbyTrade ReviewThis wide-ranging collection is a fitting tribute to the breadth of historical research that has characterized Chris Given-Wilson's career. [...] Ruling Fourteenth-Century England is a fine piece of scholarship that raises as many questions as it answers about the nature of power and the relationship between instructional authority and personal influence. -- SPECULUMThis excellent essay collection is a fitting tribute to the career of Professor Chris Given-Wilson [and] is elegantly presented, as one would expect from The Boydell Press. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Ruling Fourteenth-Century England, written in honor of Professor Christopher Given-Wilson, focuses on two themes, power and authority, that broadly define his interest in the fourteenth century. A variety of thought-provoking chapters covers one or more of four sub-themes: central governance, aristocratic politics, warfare, and English power abroad. -- Matthew Ward * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsPreface - Remy Ambuhl and James Bothwell and W. Mark Ormrod and Laura Tompkins Introduction - Remy Ambuhl and James Bothwell and W. Mark Ormrod and Laura Tompkins The Efficiency of English Royal Administration in the Last Years of Edward I - Michael C Prestwich Government and Market in the Early Fourteenth Century - Wendy Childs Kings' Clerks: The Essential Tools of Government - Alison McHardy Edward II: Favourites, Loyalty, and Kingship - Jeffrey S Hamilton The Perils of Lordship: The Life and Death of William Tuchet (c. 1275-1322) - Bridget Wells-Furby 'War', 'Rebellion' or 'Perilous Times'? Political Taxonomy and the Conflict in England, 1321-2 - Andy King The Carlisle Roll of Arms and the Political Fabric of Military Service under Edward III - Andrew Ayton What's in a Title? Comital Development, Political Pressures and Questions of Purpose in Fourteenth Century England - James Bothwell Edward the Black Prince: Lordship and Administration in the Plantagenet Empire - David Green 'Said the Mistress to the Bishop': Alice Perrers, William Wykeham and Court Networks in Fourteenth-Century England - Laura Tompkins The Politics of Surrender: Treason, Trials and Recrimination in the 1370s - Remy Ambuhl and Gwilym Dodd Richard II in the Mirror of Christendom - Michael J Bennett List of Christopher Given-Wilson Publications - James Bothwell

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Book SynopsisFar from being a static or eroding cultural inheritance from the past, the supernatural has continually been appropriated and updated to accommodate and express social, cultural, economic and environmental anxieties. SHORTLISTED for the 2020 Katharine Briggs Award. Since the Enlightenment, supernatural beliefs and practices have largely been derided as ignorant and un-modern - even anti-modern - and cities, being the ultimate symbol of progress and rationality, have not been thought to harbour magic. Scholars have long assumed that the world of the supernatural withered under the impact of urbanisation; yet, as numerous books, films and T.V. series from Hellboy to Being Human to the Harry Potterfranchise show, contemporary culture remains fascinated by urban-based legends and fantasy. This collection seeks to spur interest in the urban supernatural and argues for its prevalence, importance and vitality by presenting a rich cultural history of the complex relationship between supernatural beliefs and practices, imagination and storytelling, and urbanisation. Grouped around themes of enchantment, anxiety and spectrality, it explores urban supernatural cultures on five continents between the late eighteenth century and the present day. The book advances a ground-breaking exploration of the communal and cultural function of urban supernatural ideas, demonstrating howthey have continually been appropriated and updated to express and accommodate socio-cultural, economic and environmental anxieties and needs. Drawing together a diverse range of academic approaches, with contributions from historians, geographers, anthropologists, folklorists and literary scholars, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of how urban environments, both past and present, inform our imaginations, cultural insecurities and spatial fears. KARL BELL is Reader in Cultural and Social History at the University of Portsmouth. CONTRIBUTORS: Karl Bell, Oliver Betts, Alex Bevan, Tracy Fahey, Deirdre Flynn, Maria del Pilar Blanco, William Pooley, Elena Pryamikova, David J. Puglia, William Redwood, Morag Rose, Alevtina Solovyova, Tom Sykes, Natalya Veselkova, Mikhail Vandyshev, David Waldron, Sharn Waldron, Felicity WoodTrade ReviewRevels in the power of storytelling... This collection vividly presents the ways in which the supernatural continues to shape the urban in multiple and complex webs of storytelling. * GRAMARYE *A provoking and far-reaching interdisciplinary collection exploring cities as haunted and haunting places. The judges particularly noted the exciting register of different voices presented here, with folklorists, historians, literary critics and psychogeographers contributing to an often essential collection. * THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY *Supernatural Cities is a noteworthy publication that will be of interest to both academics and urban enthusiasts. It adds to the current interest in the field of humanities to explore the cultural dimensions of urban planning.[3] The volume employs several theories associated with horror and the Gothic, drawing on the concepts of uncanniness, heterotopia, nostalgia, and subalternity, to examine the culture in the localized communities of global cities. Its various essays can serve as a good point of reference for scholars interested in the study of the urban representations, their various modalities, and multiglossia, expressed through the supernatural * H-Net *The book's intellectual, chronological and geographical sweep is wide. * FORTEAN TIMES *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mapping the Urban Mindscape: The City and the Supernatural - Karl Bell Magical Capital: Witchcraft and the Press in Paris, c.1789-1939 - William Pooley Fatal Seductions, False Promises and Urban Enchantments: The Mamlambo, the Blesser, and the Consumer in South African Cities - Felicity Wood 'The Banshee Lives in the Handball Alley': Limerick City as a Folk Gothic Site - Tracy Fahey Urban Energy: Cartographies of the Esoteric City - William Redwood The Occultism of the New York Slums: Perceptions and Apparitions c.1850-1930 - Oliver Betts Manila-as-Hell: Horror, Geopolitics and Religious Orientalism in Anglo-American Literary Constructions of an Asian City, 1946-2013 - Tom Sykes The Goatman and Washington, D.C.: Strange Sightings and the Fear of the Encroaching City - David J. Puglia Horror Stories of Young Ural Cities - Elena Pryamikova and Mikhail Vandyshev and Natalia Veselkova The London Underground: A Supernatural Subterranean Heterotopia - Alex Bevan The Uncanny City: Delving into the Sewers and Subconscious of Tokyo in Haruki Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Deirdre Flynn Ghosts on the Goldfields: Ballarat as a Haunted City - Sharn Waldron and David Waldron Spectral Mexico City - Maria del Pilar Blanco Ghostlore of Contemporary Beijing - Alevtina Solovyova 'There's Something in the Water!' A Psychogeographical Exploration of What Lurks Beneath the Surface of Manchester - Morag Rose

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Book SynopsisThis volume traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-seventeenth century through to the Age of Enlightenment. This volume, a tribute to Mark Goldie, traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-seventeenth century through to the Age of Enlightenment. Mark Goldie, Fellow of Churchill College and Professor of Intellectual History at Cambridge University, is one of the most distinguished historians of later Stuart Britain of his generation and has written extensively about politics, religion and ideas in Britain from the Restoration through to the Hanoverian succession. Based on original research, the chapters collected here reflect the range of his scholarly interests: in Locke, Tory and Whig political thought,and Puritan, Anglican and Catholic political engagement, as well as the transformative impact of the Glorious Revolution. They examine events as well as ideas and deal not only with England but also with Scotland, France and the Atlantic world. Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain will be of interest to later Stuart political and religious historians, Locke scholars and intellectual historians more generally. JUSTIN CHAMPION is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. JOHN COFFEY is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. TIM HARRIS is Professor of History at Brown University. JOHN MARSHALL is Professor of History at John Hopkins University. CONTRIBUTORS: Justin Champion, John Coffey, Conal Condren, Gabriel Glickman, Tim Harris, Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, Clare Jackson, Warren Johnston, Geoff Kemp, Dmitri Levitin, John Marshall, Jacqueline Rose, S.-J. Savonius-Wroth, Hannah Smith, Delphine SoulardTrade ReviewThis rich and fertile collection of essays, written by Mark Goldie's friends and former students to mark his retirement, is a fitting tribute to his intellectual contribution, range and influence over the last forty years. * THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *This volume offers a series of unique perspectives on the different intellectual forces informing early modern England, in no way bound by the traditional lines of the history of ideas, and therefore stands as a fitting tribute to the methodologies championed by Mark Goldie. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY *An important collection of essays and will become essential reading for all scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. * SCOTTISH CHURCH HISTORY *An excellent collection...These are well-written and well-researched essays, which together provide an excellent overview of recent scholarship on British political and religious ideas in the age which Goldie made his own. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *Does justice to Goldie as a historian of ideas, politics and religion, and as a scholar of Locke and his setting, of England as well as Scotland...Since most of the contributors write and think in the spirit of Goldie-or at least in interlocution with his work-this is an unusually even and coherent Festschrift. * SCOTTISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *The pieces are all of high quality, casting vivid light on details of Restoration and 18th-century culture...These essays are all excellent. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *[P]rovides a feast of chapters related to British religion and politics. The career of Goldie, now retired from Cambridge, has inspired a host of scholars who address topics that should be of interest to readers of this journal, especially those interested in religion and politics. And as one might expect from those in Goldie's milieu, the scholarship is impressive and the prose lucid. * ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPAL HISTORY *The high quality essays should leave the reader in no doubt that the interconnected history of 'politics, religion and ideas', done in the Goldie fashion of in-depth contextualisation, is a worthy enterprise and...in the best of hands. * Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Justin Champion and John Coffey and Tim Harris and John Marshall Constitutional Royalism Re-considered: Myth or Reality? - Tim Harris Teaching Political Thought in the Restoration Divinity Faculty: Avant-Garde Episcopacy, the Two Kingdoms, and Christian Liberty - Dmitri Levitin Violence, Protest and Resistance: Marvell and the Experience of Dissent after 1670 - Justin Champion Bulstrode Whitelocke and the Limits of Puritan Politics in Restoration England - Jacqueline Rose The Assassination of Archbishop Sharp: Religious Violence and Martyrdom in Restoration Scotland - John Coffey Compassing Allegiance: Sir George Mackenzie and Restoration Scottish Royalism - Clare Jackson Corruption and Regeneration in the Political Imagination of John Locke - S.-J. Savonius-Wroth Locke the Censor, Locke the Anti-Censor - Geoff Kemp London, Locke, and 1690s Provisions for the Poor in Context: Beggars, Spinners, and Slaves - John Marshall The Reception of Locke's Politics: Locke in the République des Lettres - Delphine Soulard Court Culture and Godly Monarchy: Henry Purcell and Sir Charles Sedley's 1692 Birthday Ode for Mary II - Hannah Smith Thanksgivings and the Signs of the Times: The Apocalypse in the Long Eighteenth Century - Warren Johnston The 'Secret Reformation' and the Origins of the Scottish Catholic Enlightenment - Gabriel Glickman The Surprising Lineage of Useful Knowledge - Sarah Irving-Stonebraker The Vicissitudes of Innovation: Confessional Politics, the State and Philosophy in Early Modern England - Conal Condren Mark Goldie Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPhilanthropy was an essential feature of the relationship between Dissent and the society from which it sometimes felt itself to be separate. This collection examines the contribution made by Dissenters from the Church of England to the history and development of charity and philanthropy in Britain from 1660 to the beginning of the twentieth century. It looks at the importance of charity and philanthropy in supporting Protestant Dissent and the causes with which it was associated; the part charity and philanthropy played in helping to fashion a self-identity for Dissent and for individual denominations; and the distinctive contributions made both by Dissenters generally and by particular denominations. Dissent and philanthropy intersect at many different points and levels: between the public and the private, the state and the individual, the voluntary and the organized. Philanthropy was an essential feature of the relationship between Dissent and the society from which it sometimes felt itself to be separate. Each chapter not only covers the contribution of a particular denomination but forms a case study of a wider aspect of charitable or philanthropic activity within Dissent as a whole. This volume is the first study which examines the contribution of Dissenters to charity and philanthropy, one of the most important developments in British society between the Restoration of Charles II and the outbreak of the First World War. CLYDE BINFIELD is Emeritus Professor in History at the University of Sheffield. His publications have concentrated on nonconformist history, in particular its social, cultural, and political contexts, from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century. G. M. DITCHFIELD is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Kent. His publications include The Evangelical Revival, George III. An Essay in Monarchy, and The Letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808). DAVID L. WYKES is Director of Dr Williams's Trust and Library. He edited Parliament and Dissent with Stephen Taylor and, with Isabel Rivers, Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian and Dissenting Praise. CONTRIBUTORS: Clyde Binfield, John Briggs, Hugh Cunningham, G. M. Ditchfield, Jennifer Farooq, Mark Freeman, Elizabeth Gow, David Jeremy, Stephen Orchard, Alan Ruston, David L. WykesTrade Review[This book] presents a range of valuable perspectives on the development of Protestant Dissent over a significant period, and the place that philanthropy had to play within that development. * THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE WESLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY *[An] important study of a surprisingly neglected subject. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, LITERATURE AND CULTURE *[This] book is a clearly written and a fully researched account of Dissenting life and practise, in an area that has hitherto not been systematically considered in depth by historians. -- TRANSACTIONS OF THE UNITARIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETYScholarly and illuminating * WESLEY AND METHODIST STUDIES *This is an extremely well-edited volume, more than the sum of its parts; each essay has a clear problematic, with always lucid, frequently lively, and occasionally very moving, narratives - and with valuable, well-labelled, conclusions. -- JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORYThis is a ground-breaking collection on a curiously overlooked subject, setting out extraordinary acts of munificence and some exceptional Dissenters. * CONGREGATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETY MAGAZINE *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Clyde Binfield and G.M. Ditchfield and David L. Wykes Dissent and Charity, 1660-1720 - David L. Wykes Dissenters and Charity Sermons, c.1700-1750 - Jennifer Farooq John Howard, Dissent and the Early Years of Philanthropy in Britain - Hugh Cunningham Rational Philanthropy: theory and practice in the emergence of British Unitarianism, c.1750-c.1820 - G.M. Ditchfield David Nasmith (1799-1839), philanthropy expressed as campaigning - Stephen Orchard Building Philanthropy: the example of Joshua Wilson (1795-1874) - Clyde Binfield Funding Faith: Early Victorian Wesleyan Philanthropy - David Jeremy Unitarians and philanthropy after 1844: the formation of a denominational identity - Alan Ruston - David L. Wykes Children and Orphans: Some Nonconformist Responses to the Vulnerable in Victorian Britain - John Briggs The Rowntree family and the evolution of Quaker philanthropy, c.1880-c.1920 - Mark Freeman 'Not slothful in business': Enriqueta Rylands and the John Rylands Library - Elizabeth Gow

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Book SynopsisAn account of the naval commander Roger of Lauria and his command of warfare at sea. Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French forces of Charles of Anjou accosted a young Sicilian noblewoman. It sparked a bloody conflagration, the so-called War of the Sicilian Vespers, that would ultimately involve every part of the Mediterranean. The struggle for the coveted throne of Sicily eventually enmeshed all the great powers of medieval Europe - thepope, the Byzantine Emperor and the kings of France, England and Aragon. Because the core of the Kingdom of Sicily was a wealthy, strategic island dominating the centre of the Mediterranean, the battles were fought mostly at sea.And in war at sea, a single figure proved pre-eminent: Roger of Lauria - Aragon's "Admiral of Admirals". In the course of some twenty years of naval combat, he orchestrated decisive victories in six pitched battles and numerous limited actions, never once suffering a defeat: a feat never equalled - not even by the legendary Lord Horatio Nelson. Drawing from multiple Sicilian and Catalan sources as well as Angevin and Aragonese registers, this chronological narrative details the tactics and strategy Lauria employed to become the most successful galley fleet commander of the Middle Ages, while highlighting a crucial conflict at a pivotal point in European history, long overshadowed by the Hundred Years War. CHARLES D. STANTON is a retired US naval officer and airline pilot; he gained his PhD at the University of Cambridge.Trade Review[A] biography of him [Roger of Lauria] has long been overdue. Thankfully, Stanton has provided us with a portrait of Lauria that repositions the way we consider global wars like the Sicilian Vespers. -- H-NET REVIEWSAn excellent work carried out with knowledge and intuition, a fascinating story of a man and his battles, in an era of decisive changes in the Mediterranean and in the medieval West. * SEHEPUNKTE *Table of ContentsPrologue Battle of Benevento (26 February 1266) A Calabrian Exile in the Court of Aragon (1262-1282) Battle of Tagliacozzo (23 August 1268) Aragonese Expansion (1229-1282) Angevin Consolidation and Aggrandizement (1268-1282) Revolt of the Vespers (30 March 1282) Aragonese Intervention (August-October 1282) Stalemate (November 1282-March 1283) Admiral of Aragon (20 April 1283) The Opposing Fleets (1282-1302) Battle of Malta (8 June 1283) Anjou's Dreams of Empire Dashed (June-November 1284) France's Crusade against Aragon (May-November 1285) Battle of the Counts (23 June 1287) Truces and Treaties (June 1287-November 1291) Raid on Romania (Summer 1292) Switching Sides (December 1293-April 1297) Aragon's Invasion of Sicily at Anjou's Bidding (1298/1299) Lauria's Last Great Campaign (Summer 1299-Spring 1300) Endgame (Spring 1301-Summer 1302) Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive study of English artillery in the late Middle Ages, bringing out its full impact on areas beyond the military. One of the most important technological developments of the Middle Ages was the adoption of gunpowder weapons in medieval Europe. From the fourteenth century onwards, this new technology was to eventually transform the conduct ofwarfare beyond all recognition with important implications for European and global history. Guns came to be used in all aspects of military operations, with kings, nobles and burgesses all spending large sums of money on these prestigious weapons. The growing effectiveness of gunpowder artillery prompted major changes in the design of fortifications, the composition of armies, the management of logistics and administrative systems. This book is the first full-length study of the unique English experience of gunpowder weapons, tracing their development from their introduction in the reign of Edward III to the end of the fifteenth century. The rich records of the English Exchequer and urban accounts are used to explore their role in campaigns, in sieges, on the battlefield, at sea and their role in the defence of towns, royal castles and the fortifications of the Pale of Calais. It provides a comprehensive framework for the speed of technological advances and the factors responsible for these changes, as well as an in-depth discussion of individual gun types. DAN SPENCER obtained his PhD from the University of Southampton.Trade ReviewFor anyone interested in the history of artillery, of the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, or in the administrative history of England in these years, this is a valuable, specialized work. [...] The book is a solid foundation for more work in this field. -- H-NET REVIEWSThis is original and high-level scholarship that breaks genuinely new ground and deserves to be read beyond the field of medieval military history. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *A clear, comprehensive, and detailed study that will no doubt prove influential in encouraging the further examination of these weapons and their use. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Royal Guns on Land The Expeditions of 1430-2 and 1497 English Royal Ships Calais Garrison Royal Castles and Guns Towns Southampton Analysis of Guns Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFirst English translation of the chivalric biography of one of France's leading figures of the middle ages. Jean le Meingre, Maréchal Boucicaut (1364-1421), was the very flower of chivalry. From his earliest years at the royal court in Paris, he distinguished himself in knightly pursuits: sorties against seditious French nobles, ceremonial jousts against the English enemy, crusading in Tunisia and Prussia, the composition of courtly verses, and the establishment of a chivalric order for the defence of ladies, the Order of the Enterprise of the White Lady of the Green Shield. He was named Marshal of France at the age of only 27. His chivalric biography, finished in 1409, is one of the most important accounts of the life of a knight from the Middle Ages. Whilst full of praise, it is also highly partisan and carefully selective; it glosses over the darker, much less successful, side of his career - in particular his participation in the catastrophic Nicopolis crusade (1396) and his governorship of Genoa, which came to an end shortly after the completion of the biography, when a rebellion forced him to leave the city, five years before his capture at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and death in England in 1421. This first English translation makes available to a wider audience a text that sheds light on the history of France, on crusading in Prussia and the Mediterranean, and on the complicated politics of Italy and the papacy during the Great Schism. It is a highly important contribution to our understanding of chivalric mentalities and attitudes in late-medieval France. It is presented with an introduction and notes.Trade ReviewThis is an accessible . . . translation, with informative introduction and notes, which will be of great interest to anyone who wishes to study or teach medieval chivalry, tournaments or the crusades. * FRENCH HISTORY *[C]aptures the spirit of the Middle French original and presents it in an agreeable way for a present-day reader. * SPECULUM *A welcome addition to the available in-translation literature of the European Middle Ages, not only for what it offers English readers about the life and times of its continental subject, but also by serving as a pointed reminder that the ideology of chivalry went beyond fantasy and ideal..It makes for fascinating reading, and is to be recommended for personal edification or educational deployment. * PARERGON *Clear, lively and deeply engaging..An important addition to the growing range of later medieval chivalric texts available to Anglophone students and scholars and which, because of its extensive supplementary material, will also provide an ideal teaching resource. * FRANCIA *

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Book SynopsisThe links between Cornwall, a county frequently considered remote and separate in the Middle Ages, and the wider realm of England are newly discussed. Winner of The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies (FOCS) Holyer an Gof Cup for non-fiction, 2020. Stretching out into the wild Atlantic, fourteenth-century Cornwall was a land at the very ends of the earth. Within itsboundaries many believed that King Arthur was a real-life historical Cornishman and that their natal shire had once been the home of mighty giants. Yet, if the county was both unusual and remarkable, it still held an integral place in the wider realm of England. Drawing on a wide range of published and archival material, this book seeks to show how Cornwall remained strikingly distinctive while still forming part of the kingdom. It argues that myths,saints, government, and lordship all endowed the name and notion of Cornwall with authority in the minds of its inhabitants, forging these people into a commonalty. At the same time, the earldom-duchy and the Crown together helped to link the county into the politics of England at large. With thousands of Cornishmen and women drawn east of the Tamar by the needs of the Crown, warfare, lordship, commerce, the law, the Church, and maritime interests, connectivity with the wider realm emerges as a potent integrative force. Supported by a cast of characters ranging from vicious pirates and gentlemen-criminals through to the Black Prince, the volume sets Cornwall in the latest debates about centralisation, devolution, and collective identity, about the nature of Cornishness and Englishness themselves. S.J. DRAKE is a Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Research. He was born and brought up in Cornwall.Trade ReviewOverall, this is an interesting and useful volume which offers a substantial amount of historical flesh to clothe the archaeological bones for this intriguing period of Cornwall's history. * CORNISH ARCHAEOLOGY *[A] comprehensive study -- PARLIAMENTARY HISTORYSam Drake has produced a masterful and compelling work on Cornwall in the high medieval period, the first 'overarching study' in 60 years. [...] This book should be a must buy for all interested in medieval regional history and Cornwall. * THE LOCAL HISTORIAN *Dr Sam J. Drake's Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century is a most notable contribution [...] Drake offers a wide-ranging and richly researched portrait of life in fourteenth-century Cornwall which takes 'connectivity' as its theme. This allows Drake to make a scholarly contribution of great value not only for those primarily interested in Cornish history but also for those who work on the more general social and political history of England in the late middle ages: put simply, this is a book that will need to be added to a great many reading lists. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *A well-written and engaging book. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *It will be essential reading on its subject. It will be used for a hundred years or more. It is substantial. * MEDIEAVISTIK *Thanks to the careful research and convincing argument presented in Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity, we should now regard Cornwall's distinctiveness not as separateness, but as holding an important place in the project of governing a heterogeneous polity, the history of which dates back to the fourteenth century and the Plantagenet project of creating an English kingdom. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsPreface: a Little Understood Land Part I: Cornwall: Its Gentlemen, Government and Identity The Very Ends of the Earth: an Overview of Fourteenth-Century Cornwall Office-Holding in a Wild Spot Since the Time of King Arthur: Gentry Identity and the Commonalty of Cornwall An Extraordinary Folk: the Cornish People Part II: Distant Dominium: Comital, Ducal and Regnal Lordship The Final Tempestuous Years of the Earldom, 1300-1336 The Black Prince and his Duchy, 1337-1376 Richard of Bordeaux: Duke of Cornwall and King of England, 1376-1399 Part III: Connectivity: Cornwall and the Wider Realm Communication, Movement, and Exchange: Connectivity Frameworks Sovereign Kings and Loyal Subjects: Regnal Connectivity Pillagers with Long Knives: Military Connectivity Formidable Lords and True Tenants: Lordly Connectivity Gold, Tin, and Terrible Ale: Commercial Connectivity Lawless Judges and Litigious Cornishmen: Legal Connectivity God and Cornwall: Ecclesiastical Connectivity Of Shipmen, Smugglers, and Pirates: Maritime Connectivity Connecting Cornwall Conclusion: Cornish Otherness and English Hegemony? Epilogue: Contesting Cornwall Appendix I. Cornwall's Office-holders, c. 1300-c. 1400 Appendix II. Cornish Men-at-Arms and Mounted Archers who Served the King between c. 1298 and c. 1415 Appendix III. Cornish Ports that Sent Ships to Royal Fleets between c. 1297 and c. 1420 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe first translation of Baldric's Historia Ierosolimitana, a spirited account of the First Crusade, into modern English. The Historia Ierosolimitana is a prose narrative of the events of the First Crusade written at the abbey of Bourgueil in the Loire Valley around 1105. Its author, the abbot Baldric, used the anonymous Gesta Francorumfor much of the factual material presented, but provided literary enhancements and amplifications of the historical narrative and the characters found therein, in order, as Baldric says, to make the Historia a more worthy account of the miraculous events it describes. This volume provides the first modern-language translation of the Historia, with a full introduction setting out its historical, social, political and manuscript contexts, and notes. It will contribute to a revised exploration of the First Crusade, and facilitate much wider debates about the place of history writing in medieval culture, textuality and manuscript transmission.Trade Review[This] volume makes a strong contribution to crusader studies, and will be extremely valuable both for students and scholars. * THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Life and Career of Baldric of Bourgueil The French Historians of the First Crusade Comparisons between the Three French Historians Manuscript Transmission and Reception The 'History of the Jerusalemites' Prologue and Book One Book Two Book Three Book Four Appendix 1 - Additions found in Paris, BNF, MS Latin 5513 Appendix 2 - People and Places Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFirst study of the origins of the lordship courts that dominated the lives of the peasantry of medieval England. About the year 1000, hundreds and shires were the dominant and probably the only local assemblies for doing legal and other business in England. However, this simple pattern did not last long, for lords established separate courts which allowed them to manage and discipline their dependents without external interference, and therefore to intensify and redefine their claims over their dependents. These can be seen clearly by the early twelfth century, and were the basis from which the later manorial courts, courts leet and honour courts originated. The appearance of these courts has long been recognised; what is novel about this book is that it shows how they came into being. It argues that lordship courts ultimately originated through subtracting business from the public courts of Anglo-Saxon England, not from the rights inherent in land ownership. It also shows how and when royal justices appeared for the first time as a response to these changes, and how the earliest generation of judges differed from their successors in their roles and functions, which has considerable consequences for how we understand the changing roles of justices in shaping English law. Overall, the changing pattern of assemblies and courts helped to redefine lordship, peasant status and royal authority, and to expectations about how business should be transacted, with widespread implications across Anglo-Norman society, culture and politicsTrade Review[This] work deserves considerable praise and ought to be widely read. * HISTORY *Karn's volume is a triumph, both a major contribution to our understanding of Anglo-Norman politics and valuable analysis of the legal practices that laid the foundation for the emergence of Common Law. He is to be congratulated on a book that will certainly shape the discussion of this topic for years to come. -- JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIESThis is an important book, filling a significant gap in scholarship on late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman law, lordship, and administration. . . . [A] highly stimulating study of a neglected topic. -- John Hudson * Speculum *Table of ContentsIntroduction Lords and their Dependents in Court: the Later Anglo-Saxon Paradigm The Aspirations of Lords in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England Private Claims and Hundreds in the Later Eleventh and Earlier Twelfth Centuries The Division of Hundreds and the Proliferation of Courts From Debate within Courts to Debate between Courts: the Origins of Jurisdictional Debate Courts, Pleas and Kings in the Early Twelfth Century Pleas and Justices in the Early Twelfth Century Conclusion Appendix: the Evidence for Justices, 1100-1154 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe first modern edition of a text which shows the suspicion with which Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain was received two decades after it first appeared. The history of the Yorkshire secular clerk, Alfred of Beverley (c.1148 x c.1151), an important primary source in Anglo-Norman historiography, supplies a history of Britain from its supposed foundation by Brutus down to the death of Henry I in 1135. Alfred's history is of particular interest in that it is the first Insular Latin chronicle to incorporate the legendary British history of Geoffrey of Monmouth (published c.mid 1130s) within a continuous account of the island's past. In attempting to fuse the radically new Galfridian account of the past with that of the conventional twelfth-century (Bedan) view, Alfred's use and manipulation of his sources is highly revealing and suggests a quite critical reception of Geoffrey's history, a mindset which by the end of the twelfth century appears almost entirely to have disappeared amongst chroniclers. Alfred's history is also an important, and presently undervalued, witness to the reception and dissemination of three of the most important Anglo-Norman histories: Symeon of Durham Historia Regum, The Chronicle of John of Worcester and Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, from which works it borrows extensively. In the manner of use of these sources, the author tells us much about the ecclesiastical and intellectual interests and outlook of the period.Trade ReviewIt is this last feature of Alfred's History which is Dr Slevin's argument as to why his work deserves a lot more attention. -- David Crouch * Northern History *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations List of plates, figures and maps INTRODUCTION Alfred of Beverley - Man, Milieu & Memory Date and Circumstances of the History Sources i. Introduction ii. Henry of Huntingdon iii. Geoffrey of Monmouth iv. John of Worcester v. The Durham Historia Regum The Afterlife of Alfred Historical place, purpose and value Manuscripts Editions i. Previous Edition ii. This Edition TEXT AND TRANSLATION Appendices General Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion, despite the famous claim of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christians professed an uncivil faith. This innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion, despite the famous claim of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christians professed an uncivil faith. In the aftermath of the seventeenth-century European wars of religion, civil religionists such as David Hume, Edward Gibbon, the third earl of Shaftesbury, and William Warburton sought to reconcile Christian ecclesiology with the civil state and Christian practice with civilized society. They built their arguments in the context of England's long Reformation, syncretizing 'primitive' gospel Christianity with ancient paganism as they attempted to render Christianity a modern version of Roman republican civil religion. They believed that outward observance of the reformed Protestant faith was vital for belonging to the Christian commonwealth of Hanoverian England. Uncovering a major theme in eighteenth-century intellectual and religious history that connected classical Rome with Italian Renaissance humanism and the Enlightenment, this deeply interdisciplinary book draws from recent post-secular trends in social and political theory. Combining intellectual history with the political and ecclesiastical history of the Church of England, it will prove as indispensable for historians as studentsof political theory, theology, and literature.Trade Review[This] an excellent book and will become essential reading for all scholars of the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century religion. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, LITERATURE AND CULTURE *[Walsh's] research has opened up a new angle on the age-old question of the relationship between religion and Enlightenment and deserves to be read widely. * THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *This impressive new book...succeeds in covering broad ground while maintaining clarity and focus, with complex ecclesiological arguments swiftly explained in clear and often entertaining prose * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *Well-researched and clearly written...this book has deftly unearthed a vein of opinion in the eighteenth century which gives further meaning to the increasingly prevalent phrase, the English Enlightenment. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY *Professor Walsh has written an important book. His defense of Hanoverian civil religion is original, thoughtful, and provocative in the best sense of the term. Historians, philosophers, and political theorists will be forced to rethink standard interpretations of canonical thinkers, reexamine the relationship between elite intellectuals and political society, and constantly remind themselves that God was not dead in the eighteenth-century English Enlightenment. * Eighteenth-Century Studies *Walsh's outstanding tour of the creation of English civil religion, and a navigation of tradition and change, is recommended to anyone interested in the changes that confronted the Church of England in the eighteenth century. * Anglican and Episcopal History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Intellectual Resources 1: Building Athens from Jerusalem: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury 2: The Politics of Priestcraft: John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon 3: The Church-State Alliance: Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Warburton 4: The Civil Faith of Common Sense: David Hume 5: The Legacy of Ancient Rome: Edward Gibbon and Conyers Middleton 6: Subscription, Reform, and Dissent: Civil Religion and Enlightened Divinity during the Late Eighteenth Century Conclusion: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Aftermath Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEdition of documents from an important medieval East Anglian ecclesiastical institution. The charters and other documents recorded in the thirteenth-century Cartulary of the Augustinian priory of Sts Peter and Paul, Ipswich, donated to the public library of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1806, and purchased for Ipswich Record Office in 1970, throw light on an institution whose early history was mostly shrouded in obscurity. They are an important source for the study both of the expansion of the priory estates and the consolidation of its holdings bythe gift or purchase of adjoining parcels of land in common fields, and a mine of information for the student of place-names. The charters presented here, with full explanatory notes, complement the contents of the priory'scartulary published in 2018. They illuminate the religious life of the priory, its community, spiritual rewards for its benefactors, steps taken to safeguard its assets, and the circumspection sometimes shown by the convent in itsdealings with the powerful.Trade ReviewThe texts throughout are an invaluable source for students of palaeography, Latin and local history. Understanding the difference between cartularies and charters, the function they performed and interpretation of the evidence they provide allows a proper appreciation of their purpose. * THE LOCAL HISTORIAN *Part II is a splendid work of dedicated scholarship, as is particularly evident from the trouble that David Allen has taken to locate and transcribe the documents, to establish plausible dates for the many undated ones and to make available succinct, detailed physical descriptions of each of the individual items. It has been handsomely produced by the Boydell Press. * ARCHIVES AND RECORDS *[B]oth this and Allen's first volume on the priory make invaluable additions to a growing corpus. -- Proceedings of the SIAHThis Part II is a welcome addition to the range of charter publications already in circulation, and it will be a valuable reference text that will be studied for many years to come. It is of great benefit to have another resource that highlights the wealth of information charters contain. -- The Medieval Review (TMR)Table of ContentsThe Charters Appendix 1: Concordance of Original Charters in the Edition Appendix 2: Corrigenda to Part I Index of Persons and Places Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisFirst full-length account of St Stephen's Chapel, bringing out its full importance and influence throughout the Middle Ages. In St Stephen's College, the royally-favoured religious institution at the heart of the busy administrative world of the Palace of Westminster, church and state met and collaborated for two centuries, from its foundation to pray for the royal dead by Edward III in 1348, until it was swept away by the second wave of the Reformation in 1548. Monarchs and visitors worshipped in the distinctive chapel on the Thames riverfront. Even when the king and his household were absent, the college's architecture, liturgy and musical strength proclaimed royal piety and royal support for the Church to all who passed by. This monograph recreates a lost institution, whose spectacular cloister still survives deep within the modern Houses of Parliament. It examines its relationship with every English king from Edward III to Edward VI, how it defined itself as the "king's chief chapel" through turbulent dynastic politics,and its contributions to the early years of the English Reformation. It offers a new perspective on the workings of political, administrative and court life in medieval and early modern Westminster.Trade ReviewBiggs handles the limited material with deftness, on the way evoking the business and bustle of an institution that has remained largely unknown until now. She is to be congratulated on making a significant contribution to the history of the palace of Westminster and its complex workings. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY *Not only tells the story of this important institution, but [also] offers a compelling analysis of comparative royal piety. * LONDON JOURNAL *This examination of St Stephen's gains immensely from the author's research of multiple sources, negating the disadvantages of a paucity of direct documentation. It departs from the traditional approaches to a college's story - and is all the better for it. What emerges is the unique role that St Stephen's was able to play, over two centuries, in foregrounding the liminal space between church and state. * Peregrinations *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Finding a Place Within Westminster, 1348-1394 Chapter Two: Magnificence and Difficulties under Richard II, 1377-1399 Chapter Three: Weathering Political and Economic Storms, 1399-1485 Chapter Four: A New Kind of Court? Display, Pageantry and Worship, 1471-1536 Chapter Five: Responding to the Reformation, 1527-1548 Conclusions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest. SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. Medieval manors have long been the subject of academic study, though the ways in which these houses reflected and shaped - and were shaped by - their occupants to express social authority have not yet been fully explored. This book undertakes a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of them, aiming to provide a fuller account of how concepts of space and domestic place were understood, represented, and used by their occupants in England and Normandy from c. 900 to c. 1200, and how this illuminates aspects of gender and authority in the period. Blending approaches from archaeology and history, it uses evidence from Anglo-Saxon wills, standing and excavated manorial sites in England and Normandy, and a variety of written texts from vitae to history to poetry, in order to delve into, deconstruct and reconstruct gendered notions of authority in the period. This book ultimately challenges ideas of gendered objects and places through the medieval construction of authoritative personae, and the use and representation of medieval manors, focusing on the household as a place and space of performance in the age of the Norman Conquest.Trade ReviewThis work succeeds in proving that the wealthy showed off their abundance and power through the objects they collected and the spaces where they and their objects were displayed. It is clearly and often cleverly written. [...] It neatly confirms the importance of interdisciplinary works and should easily find a home with both historians and archaeologists. -- SPECULUMFascinating and illuminating. * FACHRS NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Whys and Wherefores Chapter One: Acting with Objects Chapter Two: Experiencing Spaces I - People and Privacy Chapter Three: Experiencing Spaces II - Buildings and Spaces Chapter Four: Writing Places Conclusions: The Curated Space

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Book SynopsisFirst in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance. Genealogy was a central element of life in medieval Wales. It was the force that held society together and the framework for all political action. For these reasons, genealogical writing in medieval Wales, as elsewhere in Europe,became a fundamental tool for representing and manipulating perceptions of the socio-political order across historical and literary time. From its beginnings within an early medieval Insular genre of genealogical writing, Welsh genealogy developed across the Middle Ages as a unique and pervasive phenomenon. This book provides the first integrated study of and comprehensive introduction to genealogy in medieval Wales, setting it in the context of genealogical writing from Ireland, England and beyond and tracing its evolution from the eighth to the sixteenth century. The three most important collections of secular genealogies are carefully analysed and their composition is considered in relation to medieval Welsh politics. Particular attention is devoted to the pedigrees of the kings and princes of Gwynedd, which were subject to many intricate alterations over time. The book also includes fresh criticaleditions of the most significant extant collections of secular genealogy.Trade ReviewThere is no doubt that Medieval Welsh Genealogy is a major scholarly achievement. [...] This is a book for historians of insular Britain and Ireland, for manuscript historians, and for anyone interested in genealogy as a means of making sense of a political and social order. Here is scholarship of the highest order, detailed, rigorous, suggestive, and rich in possibility. [...] Guy's Medieval Welsh Genealogy will undoubtedly stand as one of the great reference books of medieval Welsh scholarship. * SPECULUM *Medieval Welsh Genealogy is a major contribution to a vital but neglected field. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *Wholly admirable work -- CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIESThe scholarship deployed by Dr Guy is first-rate, and the level of argument, closely related to relevant sources, is consistently high throughout the book. * ARCHAEOLOGIA CAMBRENSIS *Constitutes a comprehensive review of genealogy in medieval Wales. * TRANSACTIONS, DENBIGHSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY *Table of Contents1. Medieval Welsh Genealogy and its Contexts 2. The Earliest Welsh Genealogical Collections: The St Davids Recension and the Gwynedd Collection of Genealogies 3. A Southern Genealogical Anthology: The Jesus 20 Genealogie 4. Reframing the Welsh Past in Early Thirteenth-Century Gwynedd: The Llywelyn ab Iorwerth Genealogies 5. The Pedigrees of the Kings of Gwynedd Coda Appendix A: Supporting Material Appendix B: Editions Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. Following the Journal's tradition of drawing on a range of disciplines, the essays here also extend chronologically from the tenth through the sixteenth century and cover a wide geography: from Scandinavia to Spain, with stops in England and the Low Countries. They include an examination of the lexical items for banners in Beowulf, evidence of the use of curved template for the composition in the Bayeux Tapestry, a discussion of medieval cultivation of hemp for use in textiles in Sweden, a reading of the character of Lady Mede (Piers Plowman) in the context of costume history, the historical context of the Spanish verdugados (in English, the farthingale)and its use as political propaganda, an analysis of the sartorial imagery on a tabletop painting (attributed to Bosch) depicting the Seven Deadly Sins, and the reconstruction of one of the sixteenth-century London Livery companies' crowns.Trade ReviewTogether these papers provide varied and thoughtful insights into many aspects of medieval clothing and textiles and, as such, this volume is a must for those interested in all these facets. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *Table of ContentsPreface - Monica L. Wright Anglo-Saxon Banners and Beowulf - M. Wendy Hennequin The Use of Curved Templates in the Drawing of the Bayeux Tapestry - Maggie Kneen and Gale R. Owen-Crocker Construction and Reconstruction of the Past: The Medieval Nordic Textile Heritage of Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) - Git Skoglund Historicizing the Allegorical Eye: Reading Lady Mede - John B. Slefinger Sex, Lies, and Verdugados: Juana of Portugal and the Invention of Hoopskirts - Mark D. Johnston Fashion and Material Culture in the Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins Attributed to Hieronymus Bosch - John Block Friedman Fashion and Material Culture in the Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins Attributed to Hieronymus Bosch - Melanie Schuessler Bond The Broderers' Crown: The Examination and Reconstruction of a Sixteenth-Century City of London Livery Company Election Garland - Cynthia Jackson Recent Books of Interest Author Index of Previous Volumes

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Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive study of miracles in Crusade narrative, showing how and why they were deployed by their authors. The medieval Latin Christian narratives of the crusades are replete with references to miracles, visions and signs. Mysterious white-clad knights lead crusader armies to victory in battle, Christ and the saints offer guidance in visions, and great signs are seen in the skies. However, despite the frequent appearance of these themes in the sources, and the evident importance of these ideas to the narratives which describe them, scholars have often analysed examples in isolation. This book represents the first far-reaching examination of the miraculous in crusade narrative, offering an analysis of the role of miracles, marvels, visions, dreams, signs and augury in narratives of the crusades of 1096 to 1204 and produced between c.1099 and c.1250. It argues that the miraculous and its related themes represented a powerful tool for the authors of crusade narrative because of its ability to convey divine agency and will, ideas which were central to the belief held among Latin Christian contemporaries that crusade was divinely inspired and spiritually salvific. Overall, the volume demonstrates how the authors of crusade narrative drew upon various intellectual authorities on the miraculous in the service of their narrative agendas and reveals how the use of the miraculous changed as authors were forced to respond to the challenges of narrating crusade during this period.Trade Review[This] is a book that should become compulsory reading for anyone studying crusading literature or the use of miracles in medieval narratives. * HISTORY *Will doubtless become a point of first reference for those investigating the relationship between the miraculous and crusading. * SEHEPUNKTE *The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative draws key critical attention to the much-neglected workings of the miraculous in crusade narratives and constitutes an accessible and invaluable resource for those studying crusading literatures. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Miracles and Marvels 1. Divine Agency 2. Writing Failure Part II: Visions and Dreams 3. The Mockery of Dreams 4. Intercession and Insurance Part III: Signs and Augury 5. Ways of Knowing 6. Signs of the Times Conclusion Appendix: The Sources Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAnalyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The kingdom of Sicily plays a huge part in the history of the Norman people; their conquest brought in a new era of invasion, interaction and integration in the Mediterranean, However, much previous scholarship has tended to concentrate on their activities in England and the Holy Land. This volume aims to redress the balance by focusing on the Hautevilles, their successors and their followers. It considers the operational, tactical, technical and logistical aspects of the conduct of war in the South throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries, looking also at its impact on Italian and Sicilian multi-cultural society. Topics include the narratives of the Norman expansion, exchanges and diffusion between the "military cultures" of the Normans and the peoples they encountered in the South, and their varied policies of conquest, consolidation and expansion in the different operational theatres of land and sea.Trade Review[T]he editor has brought together an interesting set of essays which have a close focus on warfare, and he has grouped them into sensible categories. . . . This is a very well-produced volume with an impressive range of pictures, a combined Bibliography and a useful index. * De Re Militari *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Georgios Theotokis Greek and Latin sources for the Norman expansion in the South: their value as "military histories" of the warfare in the Mediterranean Sea - Georgios Theotokis "Conquest in Their Blood": Hauteville Ambition, Authorial Spin and Interpretive Challenges in the Narrative Sources - Francesca Petrizzo "The Arts of Guiscard": Trickery and Deceit in the Norman Conquests of Southern Italy and Outremer, 1000-1120 - James Titterton A Gift to the Normans - The Military Legacy of Sicilian Islam - David Nicolle Norman battle tactics in the Mediterranean theatre of operations: fighting Lombards, greeks, Arabs, and Turks c.1050-c.1100 - Matthew Bennett Venetian Reactions to the Normans of southern Italy under Robert Guiscard - from Enmity to Congeniality - Serban V. Marin The Norman Kingdom of Sicily: Projecting Power by Sea - Charles D. Stanton Norman Participation in the First Crusade: a re-examination - Luigi Russo Strategy, the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy, and the First Crusade - Daniel P. Franke Disaster in the Delta? Sicilian support for the Crusades and the Siege of Alexandria, 1174 - Michael S. Fulton Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The essays collected here cast light on the factors that made or defined an individual, and the ways in which the men and women concerned gave expression to their individuality. Facets of the characters of English kings emerge from the varying contents of their wills, and the use of propaganda in their personal letters. By contrast, Margaret of Anjou's early years are explored for the roots of her conduct as queen consort, and how she matched up to contemporary expectations following Henry VI's mental collapse. The law courts and the legal profession provide the stage and cast for several papers: individual lawyers, of dubious integrity and adept at manipulating legal processes intheir own interests, provoked the violence that led to their own deaths, while a member of the same profession is shown to have orchestrated civic riots in which he and his neighbours sought to give expression to their own statusas they perceived it. Finally, in their frustrated search for justice, strong-minded women asserted their individual rights by taking their grievances to Henry VII's star chamber. Contributors: Chris Given-Wilson, Anthony Gross, David Grummitt, Samuel Lane, Simon Payling, Alice Raw, Anne F. Sutton, Deborah Youngs.Trade Review[An] engaging volume full of interesting papers and will, like the other volumes in the series, provide helpful references for scholars for many years to come. * THE RICARDIAN *Table of ContentsPreface - Linda Clark Royal Wills, 1376-1475 - Christopher Given-Wilson Propaganda, Piety and Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Henry V's Vernacular War Letters to the City of London, 1417-21 - Samuel Lane 'To Be of Oon Demeanyng and Unite for the Wele of Your Self and of the Contre There': Yorkist Plans for the Lordship of Ireland, the Last Phase - Anne F. Sutton A Mirror for a Princess: Antoine de la Sale and the Political Psyche of Margaret of Anjou - Anthony Gross Margaret of Anjou and the Language of Praise and Censure - Alice Raw On 'Peyne of their Lyfes ... they Shuld no Verdit gif, but if they Wold Endite the Seid William Tresham of his Owen Deth': the Murder of Lawyers in Fifteenth-Century England - S.J. Payling 'Stond Horeson and Yelde thy Knyff': Urban Politics, Language and Litigation in Late Medieval Canterbury - David Grummitt 'In to the Sterre Chambre': Female Plaintiffs Before the King's Council in the Reign of Henry VII - Deborah Youngs

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Book SynopsisA new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First Crusade, showing their complex relationship with the Bible. The Bible exerted an enormous influence on the crusading movement: it provided medieval Christians with language to describe holy war, spiritual models for crusaders, and justifications for conquests in the East. This book adds tothe growing body of scholarship on the biblical underpinnings of crusading, offering a reappraisal of the early twelfth-century narratives of the First Crusade as works of biblical exegesis rather than simply historical texts. Itrestores these works and their authors to the context of the monastic and cathedral schools where the curricula centred on biblical study, and demonstrates how the crusade's narrators applied familiar methods of scriptural commentary to the crusade, treating it as a text which could, like the Bible, be understood through historical, allegorical, and mystical lenses. These glosses of the First Crusade, which collectively constitute one of the greatintellectual achievements of their age, drew upon the Scriptures and earlier Christian theology, pilgrimage guides, and polemic to construct the crusade as a new chapter of sacred history. Within this story, the first crusaders played various biblically inspired roles: as new Israelites, they wrested the promised land from Muslims cast as new Canaanites and Babylonians; as new apostles, they reenacted some of the greatest miracles of the Gospels. By reconstructing the interpretive processes that made such readings possible, this study allows us to better appreciate the crusading movement's relationship to church reform, the apostolic revival, and the growth of anti-Jewish sentiment in twelfth-century Europe. KATHERINE ALLEN SMITH is professor of history at the University of Puget Sound.Trade ReviewAs Katherine Allen Smith convincingly demonstrates in this thorough and fascinating book, we stand to learn a significant amount about the authors of crusade texts, their audiences, and what it meant to write crusade narrative, if we take the time to tap into this rich seam. This book should be required reading for any student or scholar of the medieval historiography of crusading, or of medieval Latin Christian historiography in general. -- SPECULUM[A] highly interesting work that should be essential reading for anyone who teaches or studies the crusades. -- JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS CULTURES[This] rich study opens the door to further investigations of the relationships between different literary genres and between exegesis, theology, and history. * SEHEPUNKTE *Table of ContentsIntroduction History and Biblical Exegesis in the Latin West The Bible in the Chronicles of the First Crusade Into the Promised Land Babylon and Jerusalem Conclusion Appendix 1: Tables and Charts of Biblical References Appendix 2: List of Biblical References in the Texts Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA series which is a model of its kind: Edmund King The wide-ranging articles collected here represent the cutting edge of recent Anglo-Norman scholarship. There is a particular focus on historical sources for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and especially on the key texts which are used by historians in understanding the past. There are articles on Eadmer's Historia Novorum, Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum, the historical profession at Durham, and the use of charters to understand the role of women in the Norman march of Wales. Other contributions examine canon law in late twelfth-century England, and Angevin rule in Normandy in the time of Henry fitz Empress. The Old English world is also represented in the volume: there is a fresh investigation into Harold Godwineson's posthumous reputation, and a new interpretation of the reign of Aethelred the Unready. S.D. CHURCH is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: Emma Cavell, Catherine Cubitt, John Gillingham, Mark Hagger, Fraser McNair, Charles C. Rozier, Nicholas Ruffini-Ronzani, Danica Summerlin, Ann WilliamsTrade Review[The book has] a wide range of topics and [the essays] are consistently of excellent academic quality. -- H-SOZ-KULTTable of ContentsReassessing the Reign of King Æthelred the Unready - Katy Cubitt The Art of Memory: The Posthumous Reputation of King Harold II Godwineson - Ann Williams Women, Memory and the Genesis of a Priory in Norman Monmouth - Emma Cavell The Sins of a Historian: Eadmer of Canterbury, Historia Novorum in Anglia. Books I-IV - John B Gillingham Angevin Rule in the West of Normandy, 1154-1186: The View from Mont-Saint-Michel - Mark Hagger 'A girly man like you can't rule us real men any longer': Sex, Violence and Masculinity in Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum - Fraser McNair Compiling Chronicles in Anglo-Norman Durham, c. 1100-1130 - Charles C. Rozier The Counts of Louvain and the Anglo-Norman World, c. 1100-c. 1215 - Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani England, Normandy, and the Ecclesiastical 'New Law' in the Later Twelfth-Century - Danica Summerlin

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Book SynopsisExamination of the role played by key figures around the monarchy in the Wars of the Roses. The reigns of Edward IV and Richard III have long engendered fascination and debate, not least concerning the extent of the authority and power of key individuals surrounding the court at the time. This book examines the most influential men and women at the centre of their regimes: the political power-brokers. They served the king in matters of diplomacy, warfare, court ceremony, local government, and the attempt to keep order amid the ongoing crisis of kingship sparked by the Wars of the Roses. Their close royal association to the king led to rapid increases in their power and fortune. Among their ranks are well-documented figures such as the tragic "Kingmaker", Richard Neville,earl of Warwick, and the steadfast baron William, Lord Hastings. This volume however is also concerned to bring to the forefront lesser discussed figures, including Sir Thomas Montgomery, Edward's close friend whose career was remade by the Yorkist usurpation, and Sir John Fogge, one of the leading men of Kent who prospered under Yorkist rule, yet risked everything by rejecting Richard's right to rule. Grounded on extensive archival research, this book offers a more detailed and nuanced image of the influence the power-brokers wielded and their place in the Yorkist state. It analyses the manifestation of their power and the manner in which they exercised their influence publicly and privately; and establishes their importance in the foundation, maintenance, and downfall of the Yorkist dynasty.Trade Review[This] book is well-written and draws on an impressive range of sources, both secondary and archival. * THE RICARDIAN *Table of ContentsIntroduction Clientelism and the Spheres of Power Domus et Familia: Power-Brokers and the Royal Affinity Public Sentiment and Status Women as Power-Brokers The Prelates Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFirst full English translation of a major text, narrating the adventures of the Jouvencel whilst interweaving them with advice on military tactics and strategies. Le Jouvencel is one of the most important and revealing sources for the study of medieval warfare and chivalry. It tells the story of a poor young soldier whose skill at arms enables him to rise through the ranks and eventually marry a foreign princess. Jean de Bueil (1406-1477 wrote the book around 1466, following his retirement from military service, drawing heavily upon his own experiences as one of the most prominent French soldiers of the fifteenth century. The pages of Le Jouvencel are filled with unusually detailed descriptions of military campaigns, sieges and battles, capturing the tactics, weapons and everyday life of the soldier with a vivid eye for detail. Many of the characters, places and events described in the apparently fictional story were actually inspired by recent history, as was revealed in a Commentary written just a few years after Bueil's death by one of his squires, Guillaume Tringant. Jean de Bueil wrote Le Jouvencel to provide future generations of soldiers and military leaders with advice on chivalry, knighthood and the art of warfare. As a result, this remarkable chivalric narrative offers a window into the martial culture of French soldiers during the final stages of the Hundred Years War. This first English translation is presented with an introduction to the text and to Jean de Bueil, and explanatory notes.Trade ReviewThis translation will be enjoyed and read with profit by a wide range of audiences: from the general reader interested in warfare in the Middle Ages to the specialist student and scholar who will have at their disposal a key work of late medieval chivalric biography. -- SPECULUMTable of ContentsIntroduction Le Jouvencel: Table of rubrics Le Jouvencel: Part I Le Jouvencel: Part II Le Jouvencel: Part III The Commentary by Guillaume Tringant Select bibliography Index

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