Richard III: A Study of Service

ISBN-13: 9780521407267 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 372 str.

Rosemary Horrox

Opis

Basing her research on a wide range of archival material, Dr. Horrox highlights a crucial feature of royal government in this period--the role of the king's servants. For the years immediately before and during Richard's reign, the book explores fully the practicalities of obedience, the reciprocal nature of service relationships, and the whole structure of late medieval "affinities" or client systems.

Recenzje

'Dr Horrox's work is already well known to students of the Yorkist period … but in this outstanding new book she has put scholars even deeper in her debt … What she has done … supremely well is to demonstrate the complexity of late Yorkist political society and to point to ways in which it can be illuminated.' The Ricardian

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: the roots of service; 1. The creation of an affinity; 2. The usurpation; 3. Rebellion; 4. The reassertion of royal authority; 5. The king's household; 6. The collapse of the regime; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.