Richard III and his Rivals
Magnates and Their Motives in the Wars of the Roses
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 1991
462 pages
978-0-8264-2378-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-2378-8 (9780826423788)
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Person
Michael Hicks is Head of History at the University of Winchester, UK. He holds three history degrees at English universities and has written extensively on the Wars of the Roses, mainly through biographies of important protagonists such as Warwick the Kingmaker, False Fleeting Perjur'd Clarence and Richard III who shaped successive stages of the conflict. He is a regular contributor to history journals and to 'The Ricardian'.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Bastard Feudalism: Society and Politics in Fifteenth-Century England
- 2 Idealism in Late Medieval English Politics
- 3 Attainder, Resumption and Coercion, 1461-1529
- 4 Chantries, Obits and Almshouses: The Hungerford Foundations, 1325-1478
- 5 The Piety of Margaret, Lady Hungerford (d. 1478)
- 6 St. Katherine's Hospital, Heytesbury: Prehistory, foundation and Re-foundation, 1409-78
- 7 Restraint, Mediation and Private Justice: George, Duke of Clarence as 'Good Lord'
- 8 Edward IV, the Duke of Somerset and Lancastrian Loyalism in the North
- 9 Piety and Lineage in the Wars of the Roses: The Hungerford Experience
- 10 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 Ill'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 Inheritance
- 19 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 Yorkist Rebellion of 1489 Reconsidered
- 23 The Case of Sir Thomas Cook, 1468
- Index
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