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The Fifteenth Century XVIII

Rulers, Regions and Retinues. Essays presented to A.J. Pollard

Linda Clark editor Peter W Fleming editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published:20th Nov '20

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Essays on crucial aspects of late medieval history. The essays collected here, offered by three generations of his friends and pupils, celebrate the outstanding career of Professor A.J. Pollard and pay tribute to his scholarship and enduring influence in furthering our understanding of late medieval England and France. Drawing inspiration from his own research interests and writing, which illuminated military, political and social interactions of the period, they focus on three main themes. The contrasting styles of governance adopted by English monarchs from Richard II to Henry VII; the differing responses to civil conflict revealed in a variety of localities; and the lives of men recruited to fight overseas during the Hundred Years' War, and beyond the border with Scotland in later years, are all explored here. These topics take us across England from the far north to the Channel, to London, the south-west and the Welsh lordship of Gower, while on the way also examining how townsmen resisted taxation, the gentry administered their estates and the western marches were ruled.

This festschrift is a most fitting tribute to one of our leading medieval historians and is very well deserved. * THE RICARDIAN *

ISBN: 9781783275632

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 474g

234 pages