Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages write by Anne Curry. This book was released on 2000. Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The notion of service was ingrained in medieval culture, and not just as part of the wider concept of patronage. These studies examine the nature and importance of service in the 14th and 15th centuries in a variety of contexts.
Master-Servant Childhood
Master-Servant Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Master-Servant Childhood write by P. Ryan. This book was released on 2013-06-13. Master-Servant Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.
Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns
Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns write by Samuel Kline Cohn. This book was released on 2013. Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.
Humphrey Newton (1466-1536)
Humphrey Newton (1466-1536) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humphrey Newton (1466-1536) write by Deborah Youngs. This book was released on 2008. Humphrey Newton (1466-1536) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The public and political lives of the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century gentry have been extensively studied, but comparatively little is known of their private lives and beliefs. Humphrey Newton of Pownall, Cheshire, offers a rare and fascinating opportunity to redress the balance, thanks to the fortunate survival of a commonplace book he compiled c.1498-1524. Drawing upon this unique manuscript, this interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional study of Newton explores his family life, landed estate, legal work, piety, and his literary skills [he composed nearly twenty courtly love lyrics]. It charts his social advancement and the self-fashioning of his gentle image, while placing him in the context of current discussions of gentry culture. What makes Newton even more noteworthy is that he was among the unsung and little known stratum of English society historians have labelled the 'lesser' gentry. As such, this book provides the first comprehensive biography of an early Tudor gentleman. Dr DEBORAH YOUNGS is lecturer in medieval history at Swansea University.
Trustworthy Men
Trustworthy Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trustworthy Men write by Ian Forrest. This book was released on 2020-03-31. Trustworthy Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is popularly assumed. Offering a radical new interpretation of the institutional church and its social consequences in England, Ian Forrest argues that between 1200 and 1500 the ability of bishops to govern depended on the cooperation of local people known as trustworthy men and shows how the combination of inequality and faith helped make the medieval church. Trustworthy men (in Latin, viri fidedigni) were jurors, informants, and witnesses who represented their parishes when bishops needed local knowledge or reliable collaborators. Their importance in church courts, at inquests, and during visitations grew enormously between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The church had to trust these men, and this trust rested on the complex and deep-rooted cultures of faith that underpinned promises and obligations, personal reputation and identity, and belief in God. But trust also had a dark side. For the church to discriminate between the trustworthy and untrustworthy was not to identify the most honest Christians but to find people whose status ensured their word would not be contradicted. This meant men rather than women, and—usually—the wealthier tenants and property holders in each parish. Trustworthy Men illustrates the ways in which the English church relied on and deepened inequalities within late medieval society, and how trust and faith were manipulated for political ends.
