[PDF] North East England In The Later Middle Ages eBook

Author : Christian Drummond Liddy
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843831273

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The medieval development of the distinct region of north-east England explored through close examination of landscape, religion and history. The recent surge of interest in the political, ecclesiastical, social and economic history of north-eastern England is reflected in the essays in this volume. The topics covered range widely, including the development of both rural and urban life and institutions. There are contributions on the well-known richness of Durham cathedral muniments, its priory and bishopric, and there is also a particular focus on the institutions and practices which evolved to deal with Scottish border problems. A number of papers broach lesser-known subjects which accordingly offer new territory for exploration, among them the distinctive characteristics of local jurisdiction in the northern counties, the formation of north-eastern landscapes, the course of agrarian development in the region and the emergence of a northern gentry class alongside the better known ecclesiastical and lay magnates. CHRISTIAN D. LIDDY is Lecturer in History at the University of Durham, where R.H. BRITNELL is Emeritus Professor.

Author : Adrian Gareth Green
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833352

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Is North East England really a coherent and self-conscious region? The essays collected here address this topical issue, from the middle ages to the present day.

Author : Christian Drummond Liddy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833778

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New study sets the medieval palatinate of Durham firmly in the context of a community built round the cult of St Cuthbert.

Author : Bruce M.S. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040247520

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This is the third collection of articles by Bruce Campbell to appear in the Variorum series. Late medieval England was an overwhelmingly rural society. Never since has such a large proportion of the population lived in the countryside or relied so directly for its livelihood upon agriculture. The lot of a majority of that population was always a hard one - and never more so than during the first half of the 14th century, when peasants competed with each other for ever-scarcer land and work and a succession of major harvest failures jeopardised the survival of many. Nevertheless, experience varied considerably, both during this era of mounting population pressure and the century and more of population decline and stagnation that followed the demographic disaster of the Black Death. How well individual communities coped during these contrasting conditions of expansion and contraction owed much to the quality and composition of their natural-resource endowment, a good deal to their ability to take advantage of changing commercial opportunities, and sometimes almost everything to how exposed they were to military conflict. Always, however, much hinged upon how the twin feudal institutions of lordship and serfdom were mapped onto land and people via the manorial system. These are the themes variously explored by the eight essays assembled in this volume, which range from a case-study of a single crowded Norfolk manor to a consideration of the broad and, towards the end of the Middle Ages, widening contrasts that persisted between North and South.

Author : A. T. Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783270756

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A regional study of landed society in the transition between the late medieval and early modern period.

Author : Andy King
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004229825

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In England and Scotland at War, c.1296-c.1513, Andy King and David Simpkin bring together new perspectives on the Anglo-Scottish conflict from Dunbar to Flodden. The essays focus on the military history of the wars from both sides of the border.

Author : Jackson W. Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1108663826

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The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet, in the fifteenth century, open war was an infrequent occurrence in a region which is much better understood by historians of fourteenth-century Anglo-Scottish conflict, or of Tudor responses to the so-called 'border reivers'. This first book-length study of England's far north in the fifteenth century addresses conflict, kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance in this dynamic region. It traces the norms and behaviours by which local society sought to manage conflict, arguing that common law and march law were only parts of a mixed framework which included aspects of 'feud' as it is understood in a wider European context. Addressing the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland together, Jackson W. Armstrong transcends an east-west division in the region's historiography and challenges the prevailing understanding of conflict in late medieval England, setting the region within a wider comparative framework.

Author : Peter L. Larson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1136600167

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Larson examines the changing relations between lords and peasants in post-Black Death Durham. This was a time period of upheaval and change, part of the transition from ‘medieval’ to ‘modern.’ Many historians have argued about the nature of this change and its causes, often putting forth a single all-encompassing model; Larson presses for the importance of individual choice and action, resulting in a flexible, human framework that provides a more appropriate explanation for the many paths followed in this period. The theoretical side is balanced by an ‘on the ground’ examination of rural life in Durham-- an attempt to capture the raw emotions and decisions of the period. No one has really examined this; most studies are speculative, relying on theory or statistics, rather than tracing the history of real people, both in the immediate aftermath of the plague, and in the longer term. Durham is fortunate in that records survive in abundance for this period; most other studies of rural society end at 1300 or 1348. As such, this book fills a major gap in medieval English history while at the same time grappling with major theories of change for this transformative period.

Author : K.H. Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0429870663

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First published in 1950 in its 7th edition, this volume became a standard work. Covering 213 years, it begins with Edward I and proceeds through events including the Black Death and the Hundred Years War to Edward IV. In doing so, the author balanced political, constitutional, social and economic aspects of England’s national evolution.