The Fifteenth Century XIII

Exploring the Evidence: Commemoration, Administration and the Economy
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84383-944-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 265 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 231 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: The Fifteenth Century

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Of necessity, historians of the late Middle Ages have to rely on an eclectic mix of sources, ranging from the few remaining medieval buildings, monuments, illuminated manuscripts and miscellaneous artefacts, to a substantial but often uncatalogued body of documentary material, much of it born of the medieval administrator's penchant for record keeping. Exploring this evidence requires skills in lateral thinking and interpretation - qualities which are manifested in this volume. Employing the copious legal records kept by the English Crown, one essay reveals the thinking behind exceptions to pardons sold by successive kings, while another, using clerical taxation returns, adds colour to contemporary criticism of friars for betraying their vows of poverty. Case studies of the registers of two hospitals, one in London the other in Canterbury, lead to insights into the relations of their administrators with civic and spiritual authorities. A textual dissection of the epilogues in William Caxton's early printed works focuses on the universal desire for commemoration. Other essays about royal livery collars and the English coinage are nourished by material remains, and where contemporary records fail to survive, as in the listing of burials in parish churches, notes kept by sixteenth-century heralds and antiquaries provide clues for novel identifications. The book-ends are exemplars of the historian's craft: the one, taking as its starting point the will of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, explores in forensic detail how his executors coped with their enormous task in a time of civil war; the other,by examining research into the economy of fifteenth-century England undertaken since the 1880s, provides an over-view which scholars of the period will find invaluable.

Contributors: Martin Allen, Christopher Dyer, David Harry, Susanne Jenks, Maureen Jurkowski, Simon Payling, Euan Roger, Christian Steer, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Matthew Ward.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Linda

Weitere Mitwirkende

Steer, Christian

Dyer, Christopher

Harry, David

Roger, Euan. C

Allen, Martin

Ward, Matthew J.

Jurkowski, Maureen

Sweetinburgh, Sheila

Payling, Simon J

Jenks, Susanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The 'Grete Laboure and the Long and Troublous Tyme': The Execution of the Will of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, and the Foundation of Tattershall College - Simon J. Payling
A Royal Grave in a Fifteenth-Century London Parish Church - Christian Steer
The Livery Collar: Politics and Identity During the Fifteenth Century - Matthew J. Ward
William Caxton and Commemorative Culture in Fifteenth-Century England - David Harry
Blakberd's Treasure: a Study in Fifteenth-Century Administration at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London - Euan C. Roger
Placing the Hospital: The Production of St. Lawrence's Hospital Registers in Fifteenth-Century Canterbury - Sheila Sweetinburgh
Were Friars Paid Salaries? Evidence from Clerical Taxation Records - Maureen Jurkowski
Exceptions in General Pardons, 1399-1450 - Susanne Jenks
The English Crown and the Coinage, 1399-1485 - Martin Allen
England's Economy in the Fifteenth Century - Christopher Dyer

Über Autor(innen)

Dyer, Christopher
Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He has written, edited, co-authored and co-edited many books, including William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (Boydell, 2009).

Clark, Linda
LINDA CLARK is Editor Emeritus at the History of Parliament.

Ward, Matthew J.
MATTHEW WARD teaches medieval history at the University of Nottingham.

Sweetinburgh, Sheila
Sheila Sweetinburgh is a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Kent History and Heritage at Canterbury Christ Church University and editor of Early Medieval Kent, 800-1220 (Boydell, 2016) and Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540 (Boydell, 2018).

Contributors include: Martin Allen, Christopher Dyer, David Harry, Simon Payling, Euan Roger, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Matthew Ward.