This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls' Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses.
This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls' Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses.
J. S. Bothwell is Lecturer in Later Medieval English History at the University of Leicester
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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology INTRODUCTION: The medieval English nobility and the Wheel of Fortune 1. BLACK BOOKS: Many roads to perdition 2. AT HIS MAJESTY'S PLEASURE: Punishment, execution and degradation of wayward nobles 3. THE HARDER THEY COME: Estate seizure in the later middle ages 4. LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS: The English noble in disgrace 5. RETURNING TO FAVOUR: The search for redemption CONCLUSION: The medieval aristocrat, 'Wheels of Fortune' and 'Falls of Princes' BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology INTRODUCTION: The medieval English nobility and the Wheel of Fortune 1. BLACK BOOKS: Many roads to perdition 2. AT HIS MAJESTY'S PLEASURE: Punishment, execution and degradation of wayward nobles 3. THE HARDER THEY COME: Estate seizure in the later middle ages 4. LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS: The English noble in disgrace 5. RETURNING TO FAVOUR: The search for redemption CONCLUSION: The medieval aristocrat, 'Wheels of Fortune' and 'Falls of Princes' BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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