Richard III and his rivals : magnates and their motives in the War of the Roses / Michael Hicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicks, Michael, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Richard III, 1483-1485.

Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485.

Richard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Richard III is undoubtedly the dominant personality in this collection of essays, but not in his capacity as king of England. Richard was Duke of Gloucester far longer than he was king. For most of his career, he was a subject, not a monarch, the equal of the great nobility. He is seen here in the company of his fellows: Warwick the Kingmaker, Clarence, Northumberland, Somerset, Hastings a the Wydevilles. His relations with these rivals, all of whom submitted to him or were crushed, show him in different moods and from various vantage points.

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Bastard Feudalism: Society and Politicsin Fifteenth-Century England; 2 Idealism in Late Medieval English Politics; 3 Attainder, Resumption and Coercion, 1461-1529; 4 Chantries, Obits and Alshouses: The Hungerford Foundations, 1325-1478; 5 The Pietty of Margaret, Lady Hungerford (d. 1478); 6 St. Katherine's Hospital, Heytesbury: Prehistory, Foundation, and Re-foundation, 1408-1472; 7 Restraint, Mediation and Private Justice: George, Duke of Clarence as 'Good Lord'; 8 Edward IV, the Duke of Somersel and Lancastrian Loyalism in the North

9 Piety and Lineage in the Wars of the Roses: The Hungerford Experience10 Counting the Cost of War: The Moleyns Ransom and the Hungerford Land-Sales, 1453-87; 11 The Changing Role of the Wydevilles in Yorkist Politics to 1483; 12 Lord Hastings' Indentured Retainers?; 13 Richard III as Duke of Gloucester: A Study in Character; 14 Richard III's Cartulary in the British Library MS Cotton Julius BXII; 15 What Might Have Been: George Neville, Duke of Bedford 1465-83: His Identity and Significance; 16 The Last Days of Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford; 17 Richard III and Romsey

18 Descent, Partition and Extinction: The Warwick Inheritance19 The Beauchamp Trust, 1439-87; 20 The Neville Earldom of Salisbury, 1429-71; 21 Dynastic Change and Northern Society: The Fourth Earl of Northumberland, 1470-89; 22 The Yorkshire Rebellion of 1489 Reonsidered; 23 The Case of Sir Thomas Cook, 1468; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-20157-7

9786613201577

0-8264-2378-7

OCLC:

741690880