Only a few scholarly articles among the considerable body of secondary literature published on the Lollard or Wycliffite heresy in the last fifty years have focused on the detection and prosecution of this heretical sect; most students of Lollardy have studied either the Lollards themselves or their writings. This monograph, based upon the author's recent doctoral thesis, is thus the first to examine systematically the detection of late medieval heresy in England. It approaches the subject from the point of view of the hunter, rather than the hunted.
The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages - The Fourteenth-Century Political Community
The life of the medieval noble was dominated by four things: warfare, politics, land and family. It is with these central themes that this book is concerned. Given-Wilson combines comprehensive synthesis with lucid analysis in this vivid reconstruction of political society in late medieval England. Arranged thematically, it is ideal for student use.
Marriage in Medieval England - Law, Literature and Practice
This short book has a large compass, taking in both the Anglo-Saxon era and post-Conquest England through the fifteenth century, and embracing literary as well as legal and historical aspects of the subject of marriage; thus, a certain incompleteness and superficiality is to be expected. In a longish introduction, McCarthy presents the thesis that marriage in medieval England was over-regulated, and therefore subject to unexpected contradictions.
War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands 1477 - 1559
Exploring the effects of war on state power in early modern Europe, this book asks if military competition increased rulers' power over their subjects and forged more modern states, or if the strains of war broke down political and administrative systems. Comparing England and the Netherlands in the age of warrior princes such as Henry VIII and Charles V, it examines the development of new military and fiscal institutions, and asks how mobilization for war changed political relationships throughout society.
The Culture of Cloth in Early Modern England - Textual Constructions of a National Identity
Through its exploration of the intersections between the culture of the wool broadcloth industry and the imaginative literature of the early modern period, this study contributes to the expanding field of material studies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The author argues that it is impossible to comprehend the development of emerging English nationalism during that time period, without considering the culture of the cloth industry. She shows that, reaching far beyond its status as a commodity of production and exchange, that industry was also a locus for organizing sentiments of national solidarity across social and economic divisions.
