Henry Despenser
Author | : Richard Allington-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781904006169 |
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Author | : Richard Allington-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781904006169 |
Author | : Dale Ellwood Landon |
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : R. A. Edwards |
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Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Rowland Alexander EDWARDS |
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Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Chris Given-Wilson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300154194 |
Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehensive and nuanced biography restores to his rightful place a king often overlooked in favor of his illustrious progeny. Henry faced the usual problems of usurpers: foreign wars, rebellions, and plots, as well as the ambitions and demands of the Lancastrian retainers who had helped him win the throne. By 1406 his rule was broadly established, and although he became ill shortly after this and never fully recovered, he retained ultimate power until his death. Using a wide variety of previously untapped archival materials, Chris Given-Wilson reveals a cultured, extravagant, and skeptical monarch who crushed opposition ruthlessly but never quite succeeded in satisfying the expectations of his own supporters.
Author | : David Carpenter |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 741 |
Release | : 2023-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300248059 |
The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III's rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the king's death in 1272 After coming to the throne aged just nine, Henry III spent much of his reign peaceably. Conciliatory and deeply religious, he created a magnificent court, rebuilt Westminster Abbey, and invested in soft power. Then, in 1258, the king faced a great revolution. Led by Simon de Montfort, the uprising stripped him of his authority and brought decades of personal rule to a catastrophic end. In the brutal civil war that followed, the political community was torn apart in a way unseen again until Cromwell. Renowned historian David Carpenter brings to life the dramatic events in the last phase of Henry III's momentous reign. Carpenter provides a fresh account of the king's strenuous efforts to recover power and sheds new light on the characters of the rebel de Montfort, Queen Eleanor, and Lord Edward--the future Edward I. A groundbreaking biography, Henry III illuminates as never before the political twists and turns of the day, showing how politics and religion were intimately connected.
Author | : Sarah Stanbury |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1512808296 |
Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroidery, and paint of newly personalized saints, angels, and the Holy Family. But much of this fell victim to the Royal Injunctions of September 1538, when parish officials were ordered to remove images from their churches. In this highly insightful book Sarah Stanbury explores the lost traffic in images in late medieval England and its impact on contemporary authors and artists. For Chaucer, Nicholas Love, and Margery Kempe, the image debate provides an urgent language for exploring the demands of a material devotional culture—though these writers by no means agree on the ethics of those demands. The chronicler Henry Knighton invoked a statue of St. Katherine to illustrate a lurid story about image-breaking Lollards. Later John Capgrave wrote a long Katherine legend that comments, through the drama of a saint in action, on the powers and uses of religious images. As Stanbury contends, England in the late Middle Ages was keenly attuned to and troubled by its "culture of the spectacle," whether this spectacle took the form of a newly made queen in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale or of the animate Christ in Norwich Cathedral's Despenser Retable. In picturing images and icons, these texts were responding to reformist controversies as well as to the social and economic demands of things themselves, the provocative objects that made up the fabric of ritual life.
Author | : Mike Carr |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 386 |
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ISBN | : 3031473396 |
Author | : Lesley Ann Coote |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1903153034 |
The nature of political prophecy in the middle ages analysed, confirming its importance in the discussion of public affairs.
Author | : Trevor Royle |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403966729 |
In this sweeping history, Trevor Royle details one of the bloodiest episodes in British history. The prize was the crown of England, and the players were the rival houses of Lancaster and York. The dynastic quarrel threatened the collapse of the monarchy as a succession of weak rulers failed to deal with an overzealous aristocracy, plunging England into a series of violent encounters. The bloody battles and political intrigue between the rival heirs of King Edward III brought forth one of the most dynamic ruling families of England--the Tudors.