ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |52 pages
Resistance
chapter 2|19 pages
Taking the law into their own hands
Extra-judicial violence in North Nottinghamshire during the civil war of 1321/1322
part |62 pages
Residence
chapter 5|23 pages
‘I, Edmund’
A microhistory of an immigrant churchwarden in fifteenth-century Colchester
part |40 pages
Religion
part |70 pages
Rule
chapter 9|17 pages
The realities of political marriage
Isabella of Aragon and Frederick III of Austria
chapter 12|16 pages
‘During our absence or until further order’
Edmund of Langley, duke of York, and the custodianship of the realm, October 1394–May 1395
part |38 pages
Record
chapter 13|18 pages
“Cherchant toute Egypte pour les bons homes”
Philippa de Vere (1367–1411) and her book
part |58 pages
Reputations