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• PART ONE : INTRODUCTION
• 1: Conduct, Habitus, and Practice
• 2: Field of Study PART TWO : THE SOCIAL FIELD
• 3: The Origins of Cortesia
• 4: The Preudomme
• 5: The Preudefemme
• 6: Villeins, Villains, and Vilonie
• 7: The Courtly Habitus PART THREE : STRESS IN COURTLY SOCIETY
• 8: The Insurgent Woman
• 9: The Table
• 10: The Enemy PART FOUR : HEGEMONY
• 11: The Conspiracy of Deference
• 12: The Disruptive Knight
• 13: The Noble Knight
• 14: The Chivalric Virus.
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The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of the Enlightenment, viewing superior conduct as 'knightly' behaviour, and categorising it as chivalry. Using, for the first time, the full range of the considerable twelfth- and thirteenth-century literature on conduct in the European vernaculars and in Latin, The Chivalric Turn describes and defines what superior lay conduct was in European society before chivalry, and maps how and why chivalry emerged and redefined superior conduct in the last generation of the twelfth century. The emergence of chivalry was only one part of a major social change, because it changed how people understood the concept of nobility, which had consequences for the medieval understanding of gender, social class, violence, and the limits of law.
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• PART ONE : INTRODUCTION
• 1: Conduct, Habitus, and Practice
• 2: Field of Study PART TWO : THE SOCIAL FIELD
• 3: The Origins of Cortesia
• 4: The Preudomme
• 5: The Preudefemme
• 6: Villeins, Villains, and Vilonie
• 7: The Courtly Habitus PART THREE : STRESS IN COURTLY SOCIETY
• 8: The Insurgent Woman
• 9: The Table
• 10: The Enemy PART FOUR : HEGEMONY
• 11: The Conspiracy of Deference
• 12: The Disruptive Knight
• 13: The Noble Knight
• 14: The Chivalric Virus.
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The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of the Enlightenment, viewing superior conduct as 'knightly' behaviour, and categorising it as chivalry. Using, for the first time, the full range of the considerable twelfth- and thirteenth-century literature on conduct in the European vernaculars and in Latin, The Chivalric Turn describes and defines what superior lay conduct was in European society before chivalry, and maps how and why chivalry emerged and redefined superior conduct in the last generation of the twelfth century. The emergence of chivalry was only one part of a major social change, because it changed how people understood the concept of nobility, which had consequences for the medieval understanding of gender, social class, violence, and the limits of law.
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• List of figures-- List of maps-- Preface-- Introduction-- Part I. The Empire of Britain:
• 1. A century of conquest: 1000-1100--
• 2. Francophone Britain: 1100-1217-- Part II. Living in Medieval Britain:
• 3. Peoples and languages--
• 4. Monarchy--
• 5. The State--
• 6. Establishing the Church--
• 7. The wealth of Britain--
• 8. The organisation of society--
• 9. Life experience--
• 10. Material Britain-- Part III. The Great Divorce:
• 11. Redefining Britain, 1217-1337--
• 12. Scotland, 1306-1514--
• 13. Dynastic struggles, 1337-1485-- Conclusion-- Chronology of rulers-- Index.
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Though England was the emerging super-state in the medieval British Isles, its story is not the only one Britain can offer; there is a wider context of Britain in Europe, and the story of this period is one of how European Latin and French culture and ideals colonised the minds of all the British peoples. This engaging and accessible introduction offers a truly integrated perspective of medieval British history, emphasising elements of medieval life over political narrative, and offering an up-to-date presentation and summary of medieval historiography. Featuring figures, maps, a glossary of key terms, a chronology of rulers, timelines and annotated suggestions for further reading and key texts, this textbook is an essential resource for undergraduate courses on medieval Britain. Supplementary online resources include additional further reading suggestions, useful links and primary sources.
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• LIST OF MAPS, GENEALOGICAL TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION The Biography and Its Author Old Work and New Questions The Problems of the Sources
• chapter 1 CHILDHOOD AND SQUIREHOOD John Marshal: Father and Son William de Tancarville: the 'Good Master' The Education of William Marshal
• chapter 2 THE HOUSEHOLD KNIGHT The Device of Tancarville Patrick, Earl of Salisbury At the Court of the Young King Rebellion and Disfavour On the Tournament Circuit Losengiers and Lese Majeste
• chapter 3 THE MAKING OF A MAGNATE, 1183-1190 Death in Limoges In The East Captain of the Guard The Last Days of Henry ii Lord of Striguil
• chapter 4 THE RISE OF THE MARSHALS Count John of Mortain England without Richard Richard's Captain and Courtier
• chapter 5 EARL OF PEMBROKE AND LORD OF LEINSTER Crossing to Ireland Losing Normandy Fall from Grace In the Cold, 1205-1207 King John's Plan for Ireland The Leinster Crisis, 1206-1208
• chapter 6 THE DUEL WITH KING JOHN The Irish War of 1210 The Road Back to Favour Magna Carta The Barons' War
• chapter 7 THE SAVIOUR OF THE ANGEVIN DYNASTY The Marshal Coup The Revival of Magna Carta The Battle of Lincoln (1217) The Departure of Louis of France Making Government Pay Resignation, Death and Afterwards
• chapter 8 THE MARSHAL AND HIS SOCIETY The Courtly World of the Marshal The Preudomme The Tournament Mentality On the Circuit The Apres Tournoi
• chapter 9 THE MARSHAL AT WAR Dressing the Part The Warrior Preudomme
• chapter 10 LOVE AND LORDSHIP Love and Loyalty Lordship and Affinity The Marshal and Money
• chapter 11 THE MARSHAL'S MEN The Knights The Clerks The Hidden Household
• chapter 12 LA BONE FIN VA TOUT Spirituality Supporting the Church Dying to the World
• appendix i THE KNIGHTS OF WILLIAM MARSHAL
• appendix ii THE MARSHAL AND THE EARL MARSHAL GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY MAPS INDEX.
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David Crouch's William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and a brutal but efficient soldier. Born the fourth son of a minor baron, he ended his days as Earl of Pembroke and Regent of England, and was the only medieval knight to have a contemporary biography written about him. Using this biography in addition to the many other primary sources dedicated to him, the author provides a narrative of William Marshal and a survey of the times in which he lived and also considers the problems and questions posed by the History. The third edition has been extensively updated and revised, and now includes: * expanded sections on the reality of medieval tournaments and warfare as it is described in the biography * an in-depth study of Marshal's family life and children based on the latest research including material from the new edition of the Marshal family acts and letters * more on Marshal's royal patrons and contemporaries, in particular the relationship between Marshal and his nemesis, King John. William Marshal explores the world of medieval knighthood and the the aristocratic life of the times in engaging, readable prose, and is a unique resource for students of medieval history.
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• ""Contents""; ""acknowledgments""; ""introduction""; ""chapter one""; ""chapter two""; ""chapter three""; ""chapter four""; ""chapter five""; ""chapter six""; ""conclusion""; ""notes""; ""references""; ""index""

A small, bespectacled man with impressive moustaches and a devastating way with words, William Lane was at first delighted with the pliant disposition of the society he found emerging in the colonies of Australia. The nascent nation was awash with radical ideas and inherited bigotries, but also obsessed with itself and uneasy about its own place and composition. To this combustible atmosphere, Lane contributed all the excesses of his blistering rhetoric and seductive hyperbole; he mesmerised his audience with all the things it feared. Colonial Psychosocial traverses the 'darkness' of colonial cities, descriptions of opium dens and Fan Tan gambling rooms, tales of race-war and the morbid textual dissections of alien interlopers; it delves into vicious narratives of invasion and expulsion, inscrutable crowds and rioting mobs. Through the focus provided by Lane's life and writing, the book traces phantasmagorias of deformity, disease and degenerative decline; it considers the fate of the 'workingman's paradise', a miscellanea of socialist, nationalist and utopian delusion, and the disorienting appearance of modernity in the colonial laboratory. It follows the dictatorship and demise of 'New Australia', a settlement in Paraguay based on purity of blood, and closes with the violence and idealism of a transnational twilight in New Zealand. Lane helped shape a lexis of exclusion and denial that suffused the colonies. His divisive social commentary fed a fantasy of Australia that became the persistent rationale for aggressive assertions of identity. Through Lane, this study develops a way of approaching the historically situated and discursively shaped anxieties that were invigorated by the uncertainties bred at the edges of empire, distilled in a pervasive lexicon of 'race thinking', and made part of far wider technologies of social control.
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• The knight in England
• Military culture
• The shifting borders of nobility
• The rise of conciliarism
• The king and the peers
• Local violence
• Personal violence
• Dominating localities
• The seigneurial court
• Capital justice and the rise of liberties
• Conduct
• Expectation and demands
• Piety.

William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I. Offering an original explanation of medieval society-one that no longer employs traditional "feudal" or "bastard feudal" models-Crouch argues that society remade itself around the emerging principle of nobility in the generations on either side of 1200, marking the beginning of the ancien regime. The book describes the transformation in aristocrats' expectations, conduct, piety, and status; in expressions of social domination; and in the relationship with the monarchy. Synchronizing English social history with non-English scholarship, Crouch places England's experience of change within a broader European transformation and highlights England's important role in the process. With his accustomed skill, Crouch redefines a fascinating era and the noble class that emerged from it.
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• FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART ONE : NOBLE CONDUCT *Reconstructing Chivalry *From Preudommie to Chevalerie *Out of the Iron Age PART TWO : NOBLE DESCENT
• 4. Constructing Families
• 5. The Power of Lineage
• 6. The Growth of Snobbery PART THREE : NOBLE CLASS
• 7. Historians and Noble Class
• 8. Medieval People and Social Division
• 9. The Precocity of England PART FOUR : NOBLE LORDSHIP
• 10. The Feudal Debate
• 11. Power and Structures
• 12. Noble Women : The View from the Stands SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX .
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For 300 years scholars in Britain and France have been working industriously to explain the idea of medieval aristocracy. One part of this book analyses this enormous international field of publications, and breaks it down into four debates: on noble conduct, noble lineage, noble class and noble power. It identifies the points of divergence in the national traditions in each of these debates, and where they have been mutually incomprehensible. It integrates American historiography into the British and French debates as it touches on each. But in addition to all this, the book presents an entirely new perspective on each of the four great debates. Each is subjected to a thorough review by comparing current scholarship with what a vast range of historical source material actually says about each.
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• Chapter 1: Sponsorship--
• Chapter 2: The Site--
• Chapter 3: The Gathering--
• Chapter 4: The Commencement--
• Chapter 5: The Grand Tournament--
• Chapter 6: The Apres-Tournoi--
• Chapter 7: The Origins--
• Chapter 8: The Sources--
• Chapter 9: Social Significance--
• Chapter 10: Technology and Equipment--
• Chapter 11 The Decline.
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The tournament was a mock battle, at its height between 1100 and 1300, conducted by two arbitrary battalions over many square miles of open country. It was a one-day event, but when joined to ancillary festivals it could extend it to several days. The centre of the enthusiasm was across north and north-eastern France, where -- in the twelfth century -- thousands of knights assembled from across northern Europe to seek reputation and profit. But the passion for the tournament extended much further. Tournament holding had penetrated England, Germany and Austria by 1200. The tournament resembled in many senses a modern spectator sport, with spectators, chants, national teams, team colours, inflated salaries, transfer fees, celebrity cults and a lifestyle notable for its excesses. The tournament had a wider significance too. It underpinned the idea of aristocracy; a knight and aristocrat could be defined as a man who frequented the tournament.
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"The Normans" is the history of a dynasty. It is also the history of ruthless ambition, lust, rivalry and was between brothers and cousins. The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 was a critical moment in history. Following the death of Harold at the Battle of Hastings, it established William, Duke of Normandy, on the throne of England. Ending Anglo-Saxon rule in England, it tied England to Normandy and to involvement in France for the next 500 years. The Normans were pioneers of strong government and vigorous builders of churches and castles; yet William I's death was followed by civil war. Peace under Henry I was followed by final eclipse after the anarchy of Stephen's reign, when "Christ and his saints slept".
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• List of Maps and Tables Editor's Preface Preface Introduction Old Work and New Questions The Problems of the Sources
• 1. Childhood and Squirehood John Marshal: Father and Son William de Tancarville: the 'Good Master'
• 2. The Household Knight The Device of Tancarville Patrick, Earl of Salisbury The Royal Household
• 3. The Making of a Magnate, 1186--1205 The Household of Henry ii, 1186--89 Lord of Striguil King Richard on Crusade, 1190--94 King Richard's Captain and Courtier, 1194--99 Losing Normandy and Royal Favour, 1199--1205
• 4. The Making of a Regent Humiliation, 1205--1207 The Irish Problem, 1207--13 The Marshal and the Barons' War Protector of the King and the Kingdom The Battle of Lincoln (1217) and its aftermath The Marshal's Government Resignation, Death and Afterwards
• 5. The Marshal's Men The Knights The Clerks The Hidden Household
• 6. Love and Lordship Love and Loyalty Lordship and Affinity The Marshal and Money
• 7. The Chivalry of the Marshal The Tournament The Battlefield
• 8. La Bone Fin va out
• appendix i The Knights of William Marshal
• appendix ii The Marshal and the Earl Marshal General Bibliography Maps Genealogical Tables Index.
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THE knight of all knights: this is William Marshal as portrayed by David Crouch in his classic biography of 'the Marshal'. International sportsman, career courtier and highly capable and professional soldier, William Marshal challenges many of our assumptions about boneheaded and unfeeling warrior knights. This illustrated new edition expands and upgrades William Marshal's epic life-story in light of recent discoveries about his career and character.
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• The causes of the Civil War: Stephen as Count and King, 1113-1139-- The Civil War, 1139-1147-- Settling the kingdom, 1147-1154-- the impact of Stephen's reign.
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• PART ONE: THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR: STEPHEN AS COUNT AND KING, 1113 - 1139
• 1. The Count of Mortain
• 2. Succession
• 3. Wales and Normandy
• 4. The Summer of Rebellions
• 5. Radicalism and Conspiracy PART TWO: THE CIVIL WAR 1139 - 1147
• 6. Civil War in England
• 7. The Ideology of Civil War
• 8. Lincoln
• 9. Lords and Order
• 10. The Failure of the Empress
• 11. The Failure of the King Stephen
• 12. The End of the Civil War PART THREE: SETTLING THE KINGDOM, 1147 - 1154
• 13. War, Peace and the Magnates
• 14. The Solution PART FOUR: THE IMPACT OF STEPHEN'S REIGN
• 15. The Church
• 16. The Nation
• 17. Conclusion.
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A biography of King Stephen (1134-54), the last Norman monarch whose reign was key in English history as well as the subject of much controversial assessment. Traditionally regarded as a period of anarchy and civil war, recent research has presented a more balanced perspective.
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At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.
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• Introduction: Aristocracy and Nobility
• Part 1. Hereditary Titles and Social Dignities
• 1. The Earl and Count
• 2. Welsh Princes and the Prehistory of the Peerage
• 3. Social Dignities: Barons and Bannerets
• 4. The Knight
• 5. The Squire and Lesser Ranks
• Part 2.
• 6. The Greater Insignia
• 7. Insignia Defining Aristocracy
• 8. Castles and Halls
• 9. The Noble Household
• 10. Piety and Status.
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David Crouch offers a new approach to the fascinating study of aristocracy in England, Wales and Scotland and is the first to relate developments in the aristocracies in all three countries during the period of study. His approach is also original in examining the material manifestations of aristocracy rather than looking at institutions and charter-attestations. In the first part of the book he writes about hereditary titles including those of earl and prince and also expands on the social styles of baron, knight and squire. The second part of the book focuses on aristocratic insignia and behaviour, including chapters on heraldry, material attributes such as coronets and sceptres, the aristocratic household, residence and religious patronage. Working from these, the book constructs a fresh picture of the growth in numbers and self-consciousness of the aristocracy in England and the effect that this had on Welsh and Scottish society. There is also an extensive introduction on medieval ideas and modern perceptions of aristocracy.
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• List of maps and tables. Editor's preface. Preface. Introduction.
• Chapter 1. Childhood and Squirehood.
• Chapter 2. The household knight.
• Chapter 3. The making of a magnate, 1186-1205.
• Chapter 4. The making of a regent.
• Chapter 5. The Marshal's men.
• Chapter 6. Love and lordship.
• Chapter 7. The chivalry of the Marshal.
• Chapter 8. La Bone Fin va Tout.
• Appendix I The knights of William Marshal.
• Appendix II The Marshall and the Earl Marshal. General bibliography. Maps. Genealogical tables. Index.
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• Part 1: Old work and new questions-- the problem of the sources.
• Part 2 Childhood and squirehood: John Marshal - father and son-- William de Tancarville - the "good master".
• Part 3 The household knight: the device of Tancarville-- Patrick, Earl of Salisbury-- the royal household.
• Part 4 The making of a magnate, 1186-1205: the household of Henry II, 1186-1205-- Lord of Striguil-- King Richard on crusade, 1190-94-- King Richard's captain and courtier, 1194-99-- losing Normandy and royal favour, 1199-1205.
• Part 5 The making of a regent: humiliation, 1205-1207-- the Irish problem, 1207-13-- the Marshal and the baron's war-- protector of the king and the kingdom-- the Marshal's government-- resignation, death and afterwards.
• Part 6 The Marshal's men: the knights-- the clerks-- the hidden household.
• Part 7 Love and hardship: love and loyalty-- lordship and affinity-- the Marshal and money.
• Part 8 The chivalry of the Marshal: the tournament-- the battlefield.
• Part 9: La bone fine va tout. Appendices: The knights of William Marshal-- the Marshal and the Earl Marshal.
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This is an examination of the career of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Strigul. This book looks at his life serving under four different English monarchs, begining as tutor to Prince Henry in 1170, and finishing as regent for nine-year-old Henry III in 1216. The career of William Marshal (c. 1147-1219) throws a vivid light on power and politics in the intense world of the royal court under Henry II, Richard I and John. Not taking his biography at face value, the author uncovers the ruthless opportunist, the manipulative politician and astute courtier who knew how to get to the top and stay there.
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William Marshall rose from a minor baronial family to become one of the most powerful men in England, as Regent in the minority of Henry III. This study is more than an account of Marshall's meteoric rise to power however - for what makes him unique in medieval historiography is that he is the only man of his class for whom a contemporary biography has come down to us. David Crouch's study reveals the values, expectations andlifestyle of an aristocratic society in the middle ages.
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• Part I. Narrative:
• 1. The Beaumont Twins in the Reign of Henry I--
• 2. The Beaumont Twins and Stephen of Blois--
• 3. Beaumonts, Plantagenets and Capetians, 1144-68-- Part II. Analysis--
• 4. The Honorial Baronage--
• 5. Administration--
• 6. Revenues--
• 7. The Beaumonts, the Church and the Wider World--
• 8. Conclusion.
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This book combines a simple dual biographical study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester, the twin sons of Robert, Count of Meulan and Earl of Leicester, with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England. The twins were dominant and colourful characters, whose lives reveal many new points about the politics of the period, in particular the Norman rebellion of 1123-4, the wars of Stephen's reign in Normandy and England and the early years of Henry II. The book analyses the twins' followings, revenues and lands, and studies their relations with the church, their level of literacy, and heraldry. It also contains the first in-depth study of Norman feudal society in the duchy itself, suggests reasons why Normandy was more difficult to govern than England, and explores the use of patronage in twelfth-century society.
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• Introduction: historiography-- sources.
• Part 1 English gilds in
• 1389: the context of the 1389 gild returns-- the Yorkshire writs-- the Yorkshire returns-- the proliferation of gilds-- conclusion.
• Part 2 The geographical distribution and chronological development of Yorkshire gilds: the nature of the testamentary evidence for Yorkshire gilds-- chronological patterns for gild activity-- gild distribution-- gilds in the East Riding-- gilds and services in the West Riding-- gilds in urban centres.
• Part 3 The membership and activities of Yorkshire gilds: the occupations and status of testators-- lay piety and the dedications of gilds-- religious ceremonial in Yorkshire towns-- gild administration-- conclusion.
• Part 4 The religious gilds of medieval York: the chronological distribution of testamentary evidence-- parish gilds-- monastic gilds and confraternities-- gilds and occupations-- the civic gilds of York-- the membership of York gilds-- conclusion.
• Part 5 Case study one - the Corpus Christi gild of York: the evolution of the gild-- the ordinance of 1408 and 1477-- the origins and foundations of the gild-- gild membership-- gild finance-- dissolution.
• Part 6 Case study two - the gild of St Mary in Holy Trinity, Hull: the evolution of the gild-- gild functions-- commerce-- real estate-- the gild accounts and the town government-- St Mary Gild and other fraternities in Hull-- the end of the gild-- conclusion.
• Part 7 The reformation and the dissolution of the gilds: the decline of the gilds-- Lollards and conservatives-- purgatory, intercession and the Eucharist-- images, lights and ceremonial-- the pilgrimage of grace and its aftermath, 1536-41-- the process of dissolution-- gild survival-- conclusion. Appendices: list of identified Yorkshire gilds-- gild masters of the Corpus Christi in York, 1461-1546-- York City officials index 1397-1550 showing Corpus Christi Gild membership-- officers and financial state of the St Mary Gild in Holy Trinity, Hull, 1463-1537-- Yorkshire gilds and services surviving to the dissolution.
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The religious gild was central to the structure of late medieval society, providing lay people with a focus for public expressions of orthodox piety that accorded with the doctrinal views of government between 1399 and 1531. Using evidence from the county of Yorkshire, this book argues that beyond their devotional and ceremonial roles, the influence of these basically pious institutions permeated all aspects of late medieval political, social and economic activity. The author begins by discussing the evidence for Yorkshire gilds in the late fourteenth century, moving on to survey the changing distribution, development, and membership of fraternities throughout the county over the next century and a half. Special attention is given to the ways in which the religious gilds of Yorkshire interacted with town government, with clerical bodies, with occupational organisations, and with one another, illustrated with detailed case-studies of the gilds of Corpus Christi, York, and St Mary in Holy Trinity, Hull, which are particularly well-documented. The final section of the book deals with the decline and disappearance of religious gilds during the Reformation, showing how their devotional purposes were eroded by the new policies of central government and how many gilds anticipated their official dissolution. DAVID J.F. CROUCH gained his D.Phil from the University of York.
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• List of manuscript sources-- List of abbreviations-- Part I. The Marshal Family of Hamstead-- Part II. Clerical Practice-- Part III. Sigillography-- Part IV. Editorial Principles-- Part V. The Acts and Letters:
• 1. John Marshal the Elder and Younger--
• 2. William Marshal the Elder--
• 3. Countess Isabel--
• 4. William Marshal the Younger--
• 5. Countess Eleanor--
• 6. Richard Marshal--
• 7. Gilbert Marshal--
• 8. Walter Marshal--
• 9. Countess Margaret de Lacy--
• 10. Ansel Marshal--
• 11. Countess Matilda Bigot--
• Appendix I. Royal grants to the Marshal family--
• Appendix II. The marriage of William Marshal the Younger-- Index to the Acts-- Index.
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This collection represents the surviving output of the clerks of the men and women of the most powerful magnate dynasty in England, Wales and Ireland in the thirteenth century. Its greatness was short-lived, but as a result of the Marshals' spread of interests and marriage alliances the charters and letters edited here embrace a remarkable diversity of lordships and societies. That fact and the central place the two Earls William Marshal held at the court of the young Henry III between 1216 and 1231, playing a decisive role in the establishment of Magna Carta, give this collection a unique interest for medieval historians of Britain and France, more so perhaps than for any other contemporary magnate family.
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Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters between masters and servants, husbands and wives, neighbors and enemies, and cover a wide range of topics: politics and war, going to fairs and going to law, attending tournaments and stocking a game park, borrowing cash and doing favors for friends, investigating adultery and building a windmill. While letters by celebrated people have long been known, the correspondence of ordinary people has not survived and has generally been assumed never to have existed in the first place. Martha Carlin and David Crouch, however, have discovered numerous examples of such correspondence hiding in plain sight. The letters can be found in manuscripts called formularies-the collections of form letters and other model documents that for centuries were used to teach the arts of letter-writing and keeping accounts. The writing-masters and their students who produced these books compiled examples of all the kinds of correspondence that people of means, members of the clergy, and those who handled their affairs might expect to encounter in their business and personal lives. Tucked among the sample letters from popes to bishops and from kings to sheriffs are examples of a much more casual, ephemeral kind of correspondence. These are the low-level letters that evidently were widely exchanged, but were often discarded because they were not considered to be of lasting importance. Two manuscripts, one in the British Library and the other in the Bodleian Library, are especially rich in such documents, and it is from these collections that Carlin and Crouch have drawn the documents in this volume. They are presented here in their first printed edition, both in the original Latin and in English translation, each document splendidly contextualized in an accompanying essay.
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• Introduction
• Part 1: Sites and Images
• 1. From 'Women's Lib' to 'Palestinian Women': The Politics of Picture Postcards in Palestnie / Israel, Annelies Moors
• 2. Algeria In and Out of the Frame: Visuality and Cultural Tourism in the Nineteenth Century, Deborah Cherry
• 3. Henri Chapu's Provincial Monuments to Jena-Francois Millet: Legitimizing the Peasant-Painter through Tourism, Bradley Fratello
• 4. Open-Air Museums and the Tourist Gaze, Stephen F. Mills
• 5. British Photographers and Tourism in the Nineteenth Century: Three Case Studies, Robin Lenman
• 6. Artists as Drivers of the Tour Bus: Landscape Painting as a Spur to Tourism, Peter Howard
• 7. North to South: Paradigm Shifts in European Art and Tourism, 1880-1920, Nina Lubbren
• 8. Picture Essay: Souvenir Bangkok, Davide Derio
• Part 2: Practices and Encounters
• 9. Unlosing Lost Places: Image Making, Tourism and the Return to Terra Cognita, Roger Balm and Briavel Holcomb
• 10. Holocaust Tourism: Being There, Looking Back and the Ethics of Spatial Memory, Griselda Pollock
• 11. Joe's Bar, Douglas, Isle of Man: Photographic Representations of Holidaymakers in the 1950s, Duog Sandle
• 12. Straight Ways and Loss: The Tourist Encounter with Woodlands and Forests, Simon Evans and Martin Spaul
• 13. tourist:pioneer:hybrid: London Bridge, the Mirage in the Arizona Desert, Daniel Jewesbury
• 14. Frightening and Familiar: David Lynch's Twin Peaks and the North American Suburb, Renee Tobe
• 15. Mountains and Landscapes: Towards Embodied Visualities, Eeva Jokinen and Soile Veijola.
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From postcards and paintings to photography and film, tourism and visual culture have a long-standing history of mutual entanglement. For centuries art has inspired many an intrepid traveller, and tourism provides an insatiable market for indigenous art, authentic or otherwise. This book explores the complex association between tourism and visual culture throughout history and across cultures. How has tourism been linked to images of colonial expansion? Why are we so intrigued by lost places, such as Tutankhamun's tomb or Machu Picchu, South Americas lost city of the Incas? What is the relationship between art, tourism and landscape preference? What role did commercial tourist photographers play in the imagination of Victorian Britain? Drawing upon examples from across the globe, this exciting new contribution to a popular subject illustrates how tourism and visual culture intersect with one another and in the process become contested ground.
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