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| Author | : Gwilym Dodd |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1903153956 |
New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.
| Author | : Matthew Ward |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2020-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3030377679 |
This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era also witnessed changes in how loyalty was developed and expressed. The first section focuses on royal propaganda and expressions of loyalty from the gentry and nobility under the Yorkist and early Tudor monarchs, as well as the fifteenth-century Scottish monarchy. The chapters illustrate late-medieval conceptions of loyalty, exploring how they manifested themselves and how they persisted and developed into early modernity. Loyalty to the later Tudors and early Stuarts is scrutinised in the second section, gauging the growing level of dissent in the build-up to the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. The final section dissects the role that the concept of loyalty played during and after the Civil Wars, looking at how divergent groups navigated this turbulent period and examining the ways in which loyalty could be used as a means of surviving the upheaval.
| Author | : David Starkey |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 546 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0007307713 |
From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated.
| Author | : Chris Given-Wilson |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2023-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1003813445 |
First published in 1984, The Royal Bastards of Medieval England establishes a list of royal bastards in medieval England, and discusses their roles in the history of the period. The authors describe how gradually the church began to formulate more definite views on sexual and marital customs, with a consequent decline in the status of illegitimate children. By early sixteenth century, however, royal bastards were once again making their way into the peerage. The book charts the lives of these men and women against the background not only of contemporary political developments, but also of changing ideas about morality and family. This book will be of interest to students of history, religion and literature.
| Author | : Robert Bartlett |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 675 |
| Release | : 2020-07-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108490670 |
An engaging history of royal and imperial families and dynastic power, enriched by a body of surprising and memorable source material.
| Author | : Edmund King |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Medieval England presents the political and cultural development of English society from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Wars of the Roses. It is a story of change, progress, setback, and consolidation, with England emerging as a wealthy and stable country, many of whose essential features were to remain unchanged until the Industrial Revolution. Edmund King traces his chronicle through the lives of successive monarchs, the inescapable central thread of that epoch. The momentous events of the times are also recreated, from the compiling of the Domesday Book, through the wars with the Scots, the Welsh, and the French, to the Peasants' Revolt and the disastrous Black Death.
| Author | : Christopher Cannon |
| Publisher | : Polity |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2008-04-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0745624413 |
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.
| Author | : James Franck Bright |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1885 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : David Starkey |
| Publisher | : HarperPress |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2008-09-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0007280106 |
To coincide with the Channel 4 series to be aired at the end of this year – David Starkey's ‘Monarchy’ charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century.
| Author | : Bruce Thomas Boehrer |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 1992-04-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0812231341 |
In dissolving his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII claimed that Catherine's brief marriage to Henry's deceased brother, Arthur, had rendered the subsequent union incestuous. Henry's next marriage could be called incestuous as well, for Anne Boleyn's sister Mary had been the king's mistress before her. But early rumor hinted at an even darker incestuous connection between Henry and Anne; she was, some charged, not only the king's lover, but his illegitimate daughter. Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England argues that a preoccupation with incest is built into the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry VIII's divorce and succession legislation through the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, this work examines the interrelation between family politics and literary expression in and around the English royal court. Boehrer contends that themes of incest appear irregularly and prominently in the imaginative literature of the period. Some fifty extant plays from 1559 to 1658 deal either explicitly or implicitly with the subject. Incest emerges as a structural motif in texts as diverse as The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, and figures at least implicitly in nondramatic works by Jonson, Chapman, Shakespeare, and others. Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England explores the response to, and modification of cultural anxieties regarding family structure. It is a brilliant and original work that will be of interest to scholars and students of English Renaissance literature and history, as well as of cultural studies.
