Anne Clifford's great books of record / edited and annotated by Jessica L. Malay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676.

Contributor:

Malay, Jessica L.

Dr. Ada H. Lewis Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676.

Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert.

Clifford family.

Physical Description:

xi, 976 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, [England] : Manchester University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Anne Clifford, in her Great Books of Record, places herself within the dynamic 600 year history of the Clifford family. This book is unique, and includes a wide variety of records that provide a view, unbroken for centuries, into life on the Clifford estates in England (as well as the borders of Wales, Ireland and Scotland) and the family's involvement at the centre of political life. Here we glimpse the lives of simple widows, traders, farmers and labourers juxtaposed with the adventures of soldiers, lords and ladies, princes and princesses. We see how rebellions, crusades and foreign wars impacted both the great and the humble, and we witness changes in the practices of justice and custom. In this book, Anne Clifford asserts the centrality of women to the success of the Clifford and other noble families, including the monarchy. She writes herself into this history, asserting her own rights to govern the lands of her father after her decades-long inheritance dispute. Her composition of the Great Books draws upon medieval traditions and early modern scholarship, and builds upon these through the inclusion of biographies of all the Clifford lords and ladies, along with an extended biography of her mother Margaret Russell and her own autobiography, 'The Life of Mee'. Those interested in the lives of medieval and early modern women, changes in culture, the effect of the political upon individuals, and the inspiring life of Anne Clifford will find this a rich and rewarding book. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Robert de Veteripont and Idonea de Builli 35

2 The Last Veteripont Lords, Sibilla Ferrers and Isabella Fitz Geoffrey 85

3 Isabella and Idonea de Veteripont 113

4 The Early Cliffords of Clifford Castle, Herefordshire 157

5 Roger de Clifford III and Isabella de Veteripont 211

6 Robert, 1st Lord Clifford and Maud de Clare 245

7 The 2nd, 3rd and 4th Lords Clifford, Isobel Berkeley and Euphamia Neville 311

8 Roger, 5th Lord Clifford and Maud Beauchamp 365

9 Thomas, 6th Lord Clifford and Elizabeth Roos 393

10 John, 7th Lord Clifford and Elizabeth Percy 427

11 Thomas, 8th Lord Clifford and Joan Dacre 457

12 John, 9th Lord Clifford 'The Butcher Lord' and Margaret Bromflete 483

13 Henry, 10th Lord Clifford 'The Shepherd Lord', Anne St. John and Florence Pudsey 515

14 Henry, 11th Lord Clifford and First Earl of Cumberland, Margaret Talbot and Margaret Percy 561

15 Henry, 12th Lord Clifford, Second Earl of Cumberland, Eleanor Brandon and Anne Dacre 589

16 George, 13th Lord Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland and Margaret Russell 625

17 Anne Clifford, Baroness Clifford, Countess Dowager of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery 733

18 A Summary of the Records and a True Memoriall of the Life of Mee, the Lady Anne Clifford 795

19 Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet and Baron Clifford and his daughter Margaret Tufton, Countess of Leicester and Baroness Clifford 907.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 945-950) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Ada H. Lewis Book Fund.

ISBN:

071909187X

9780719091872

OCLC:

894930941

Publisher Number:

99963664508