King and country : England and Wales in the fifteenth century / Ralph A. Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffiths, Ralph A. (Ralph Alan), 1937- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Civilization--1066-1485.

England.

Great Britain--History--Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.

Great Britain.

Wales--History--1284-1536.

Wales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"King and Countryis a selection of essays and papers from Ralph A. Griffiths, published variously in Wales, England, France and North America between 1964 and 1990. It explores themes in the history of England and Wales in the Fifteenth Centuryand the dominions of the English crown beyond."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Crown and the Royal Family in Later Medieval England

2. The King's Court during the Wars of the Roses: Continuities in an Age of Discontinuities

3. The English Realm and Dominions and the King's Subjects in the Later Middle Ages

4. Wales and the Marches in the Fifteenth Century

5. The Sense of Dynasty in the Reign of Henry VI

6. Queen Katherine of Valois and a Missing Statute of the Realm

7. Henry Tudor: The Training of a King

8. Public and Private Bureaucracies in England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century

9. Patronage, Politics and the Principality of Wales, 1413-1461

10. William Botiller: A Fifteenth-Century Civil Servant

11. Gruffydd ap Nicholas and the Rise of the House of Dinefwr

12. Gruffydd ap Nicholas and the Fall of the House of Lancaster

13. A Breton Spy in London

14. William Wawe and his Gang

15. The Trial of Eleanor Cobham: An Episode in the Fall of Duke Humphrey of Gloucester

16. The Winchester Session of the 1449 Parliament: A Further Comment

17. Richard of York and the Royal Household in Wales, 1449-1450

18. Duke Richard of York's Intentions in 1450 and the Origins of the Wars of the Roses

19. The King's Council and the First Protectorate of the Duke of York, 1450-1454

20. Local Rivalries and National Politics: The Percies, the Nevilles and the Duke of Exeter, 1452-1454

21. The Hazards of Civil War: The Mountford Family and the Wars of the Roses

Index.

Notes:

"Selection of essays and papers, published variously in Wales, England, France, and North America between 1964 and 1990"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612024511

9781472598950

1472598954

9781282024519

1282024515

9780826435927

0826435920

OCLC:

319438384