Theory and Practice of Revolt in Medieval England
Regular price
€192.20
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Claire Valente
Annales Londoniensis
Annales Paulini
Archbishop Scrope
Archbishop Winchelsey
Articuli Super Cartas
Author_Claire Valente
aymer
Aymer De Valence
Baronial Plan
Baronial Revolts
carta
Category=JPWQ
Category=NHDJ
Category=NHTV
De Tal
Earl Marshal
Earls
edward
Edward II
Edward III
English monarchy crisis
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
government
Henry III
Henry IV
Incerti Scriptoris
king's
King's Opponents
legitimacy of rebellion in England
lordly dominance
magna
Medieval England
medieval political culture
opponents
Opposition Barons
parliamentary development
Piers Gaveston
political violence history
Rebel Lords
resistance theory
richard
Richard II
Robert Winchelsey
royal
Royal Government
Royal Opponents
valence
Product details
- ISBN 9780754609018
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Medieval Englishmen were treacherous, rebellious and killed their kings, as their French contemporaries repeatedly noted. In the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries, ten kings faced serious rebellion, in which eight were captured, deposed, and/or murdered. One other king escaped open revolt but encountered vigorous resistance. In this book, Professor Valente argues that the crises of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were crucibles for change; and their examination helps us to understand medieval political culture in general and key developments in later medieval England in particular. The Theory and Practice of Revolt takes a comparative look at these crises, seeking to understand medieval ideas of proper kingship and government, the role of political violence and the changing nature of reform initiatives and the rebellions to which they led. It argues that rebellion was an accepted and to a certain extent legitimate means to restore good kingship throughout the period, but that over time it became increasingly divorced from reform aims, which were satisfied by other means, and transformed by growing lordly dominance, arrogance, and selfishness. Eventually the tradition of legitimate revolt disappeared, to be replaced by both parliament and dynastic civil war. Thus, on the one hand, development of parliament, itself an outgrowth of political crises, reduced the need for and legitimacy of crisis reform. On the other hand, when crises did arise, the idea and practice of the community of the realm, so vibrant in the thirteenth century, broke down under the pressures of new political and socio-economic realities. By exploring violence and ideas of government over a longer period than is normally the case, this work attempts to understand medieval conceptions on their own terms rather than with regard to modern assumptions and to use comparison as a means of explaining events, ideas, and developments.
Claire Valente
