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England in the Later Middle Ages 2nd Edition by M.H. Keen

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By M.H. Keen

First released to large severe acclaim in 1973, England within the Later center a while has turn into a seminal textual content for college students learning this assorted, advanced interval. This lively paintings surveys the interval from Edward I to the demise of Richard III on the conflict of Bosworth, which heralded within the Tudor Age.The moment variation of this booklet, whereas protecting the nature of the unique, brings the examine modern. every one bankruptcy contains a dialogue of the historiographical advancements of the decade and the writer takes a clean examine the altering global of the Later heart a while, really the plague and the financial system. additionally incorporated is a rewritten advent.

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In 1309 he held his first parliament at St Andrews, and reopened relations with Philip of France. By 1311 he was able to lead raids across the English border, and in 1312 he surprised Durham and ravaged Hexham. No effective effort was made to oppose him. In the autumn of 1310 Edward did, it is true, lead an army into Scotland, but his campaign was devoid of achievement, and it was suspected that his chief motive in going north had been to make things difficult for the commission of magnates who had been appointed in the spring to reform the realm and the royal household—the ‘Ordainers’.

In each county three knights were to be appointed to hear and deal summarily with allegations of infringement of the charters. Prises were to be taken in future only by the customarily authorized purveyors and for the use of the king’s personal household. Writs under the privy seal were not to be used to initiate cases at common law, and the Court of the Household (the Marshalsea) must not try common law cases of debt or freehold, but only trespasses committed within the verge of the household.

The second, related to the pressures of war, is the growing involvement in the political life of the realm of the genteel landowning class, and of the local communities; most obviously through their part in assenting to taxation through their representatives in parliaments, but also through the part they came to play in local justice and administration, and INTRODUCTION 19 through service in the kings’ wars. The third is the interaction between royal public authority and private noble power, the successful coordination of which, enduringly throughout the period, remained a key factor in holding the body politic together and on course.

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