This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod’s wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on governance and political resistance, culture, religion and identity.
Author(s): Gwilym Dodd, Helen Lacey, Anthony Musson
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 376
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
W. Mark Ormrod: a tribute
Resistance
1 The revolt of the famuli at Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire, in 1302
2 Taking the law into their own hands: extra-judicial violence in North Nottinghamshire during the civil war of 1321/1322
3 On the road and in the market: Chaucer’s mapping of 1381
Residence
4 Richard II and his sense of place
5 ‘I, Edmund’: a microhistory of an immigrant churchwarden in fifteenth-century Colchester
6 Breton immigration in late medieval England
Religion
7 The bishop of Winchester, the abbey of Titchfield and the ‘Pretended Chapel’ of Hook, 1375–1405
8 Monks on the move: the businessmen-religious of late medieval England
Rule
9 The realities of political marriage: Isabella of Aragon and Frederick III of Austria
10 Henry de Lacy and the kingship of Edward II
11 Faction, prerogative and the common profit of the realm in the Good Parliament
12 ‘During our absence or until further order’: Edmund of Langley, duke of York, and the custodianship of the realm, October 1394–May 1395
Record
13 “Cherchant toute Egypte pour les bons homes”: Philippa de Vere (1367–1411) and her book
14 The Norman rolls of Henry V
Reputations
15 Some afterthoughts on Edward II
16 ‘A woman given to slippery ways’? The reputation of Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent
17 John Talbot, John Fastolf and the death of chivalry
A bibliography of the major writings of W. Mark Ormrod
Index