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This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls' Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. -- .

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chronology
INTRODUCTION: The medieval English nobility and the Wheel of Fortune
1. BLACK BOOKS: Many roads to perdition
2. AT HIS MAJESTY’S PLEASURE: Punishment, execution and degradation
of wayward nobles
3. THE HARDER THEY COME: Estate seizure in the later middle ages
4. LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS: The English noble in disgrace
5. RETURNING TO FAVOUR: The search for redemption
CONCLUSION: The medieval aristocrat, ‘Wheels of Fortune’ and ‘Falls of
Princes’
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719075223, 978-0719075223
      ISBN10: 071907522X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls' Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. -- .

      Table of Contents

      List of illustrations
      Acknowledgements
      Abbreviations
      Chronology
      INTRODUCTION: The medieval English nobility and the Wheel of Fortune
      1. BLACK BOOKS: Many roads to perdition
      2. AT HIS MAJESTY’S PLEASURE: Punishment, execution and degradation
      of wayward nobles
      3. THE HARDER THEY COME: Estate seizure in the later middle ages
      4. LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS: The English noble in disgrace
      5. RETURNING TO FAVOUR: The search for redemption
      CONCLUSION: The medieval aristocrat, ‘Wheels of Fortune’ and ‘Falls of
      Princes’
      BIBLIOGRAPHY
      INDEX

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