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People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages Essays in Memory of W. Mark Ormrod
This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod’s wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on governance and political resistance, culture, religion and identity.
Introduction Gwilym Dodd
W. Mark Ormrod: A Tribute Gwilym Dodd, Helen Lacey and Anthony Musson
Resistance
1. The Revolt of the Famuli at Barton Upon Humber, Lincolnshire, in 1302 David Crook
2. Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands: Extra-Judicial Violence in North Nottinghamshire During the Civil War of 1321/2 Paul Dryburgh
3. On the Road and in the Market: Chaucer’s Mapping of 1381 Sylvia Federico
Residence
4. Richard II and His Sense of Place Michael Bennett
5. ‘I, Edmund’: A Microhistory of an Immigrant Churchwarden in Fifteenth-Century Colchester Bart Lambert
6. Breton Immigration in Late Medieval England Maryanne Kowaleski
Religion
7. The Bishop of Winchester, the Abbey of Titchfield and the ‘Pretended Chapel’ of Hook, 1375-1405 Chris Given-Wilson
8. Monks on the Move: the Businessmen-Religious of Late Medieval England Alison McHardy
Rule
9. The Realities of Political Marriage: Isabella of Aragon and Frederick III of Austria Richard Barber
10. Henry de Lacy and the Kingship of Edward II J. S. Hamilton
11. Faction, Prerogative and the Common Profit of the Realm in the Good Parliament Mark Arvanigian
12. ‘During Our Absence or Until Further Order’: Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, and the Custodianship of the Realm, October 1394 – May 1395 Doug Biggs
Record
13. ‘Cherchant toute Egypte pour les bons homes’: Philippa de Vere (1367-1411) and Her Book Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
14. The Norman Rolls of Henry V Anne Curry
Reputations
15. Some Afterthoughts on Edward II Seymour Phillips
16. ‘A Woman Given to Slippery Ways’? The Reputation of Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent David Green
17. John Talbot, John Fastolf and the Death of Chivalry Craig Taylor
A Bibliography of the Major Writings of W. Mark Ormrod
Biography
Gwilym Dodd is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham.
Helen Lacey is Supernumerary Fellow in Medieval History at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
Anthony Musson is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces.
"The variety of subject matter and the erudition of the authors makes this volume a very enjoyable read which steers the reader away from his or her own specialised field of research and provides fresh insights into the late medieval world." - Nicholas R. Amor, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History
