Medievalists.net » Edward III http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Tall Tales: The Trouble with Tours http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/tall-tales-the-trouble-with-tours/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/tall-tales-the-trouble-with-tours/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2015 22:19:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=63016 Tours. They can be great, or they can be cringeworthy and rife with misinformation. A great tour guide knows how to add a flourish or two to a story to keep the audience engaged and the history interesting. A bad tour guide invents things and hopes there isn’t a historian in the audience dismayed by the falsehoods they’re spreading to unwitting listeners...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/feed/ 0 How Significant Were Perceptions Of Marital Fidelity As An Aspect Of Kingship In The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries? http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/23/how-significant-were-perceptions-of-marital-fidelity-as-an-aspect-of-kingship-in-the-thirteenth-and-fourteenth-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/23/how-significant-were-perceptions-of-marital-fidelity-as-an-aspect-of-kingship-in-the-thirteenth-and-fourteenth-centuries/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2015 04:19:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57849 This paper, concentrating on the above mentioned monarchs, will argue that marital fidelity, whilst no means encouraged as a form of acceptable behaviour, was rarely used to criticise the kings of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and played little part in perceptions of their rule.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/28/edward-ii-children/feed/ 0 Extralegal and English: the Robin Hood Legend and Increasing National Identity in the Middling Sorts of Late Medieval England http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/15/extralegal-english-robin-hood-legend-increasing-national-identity-middling-sorts-late-medieval-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/15/extralegal-english-robin-hood-legend-increasing-national-identity-middling-sorts-late-medieval-england/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:49:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52597 The legend was clearly not the only work of popular culture in what I propose as the long fifteenth century, but it does serve as a very useful representation for examining the growth of Englishness.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/15/extralegal-english-robin-hood-legend-increasing-national-identity-middling-sorts-late-medieval-england/feed/ 0 The Second Scottish War of Independence, 1332-41: a national war? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/13/second-scottish-war-independence-1332-41-national-war/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/13/second-scottish-war-independence-1332-41-national-war/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:08:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52555 While there is no doubt that the second war began in 1332 there is more uncertainty as to when it ended. Unlike the first war, there was no peace treaty between Scotland and England bringing the armed conflict to an end.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/13/second-scottish-war-independence-1332-41-national-war/feed/ 0 BOOK REVIEW: A Triple Knot by Emma Campion http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:06:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51448 BOOK REVIEW: A Triple Knot by Emma Campion I had the pleasure of reading another Emma Campion (Candace Robb) novel recently. Campion, who has written extensively about Alice Perrers, the royal mistress of King Edward III, in her hit, The King’s Mistress, is back on the shelves with a new book released this month entitled: A Triple Knot. This […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/edward-iii-hundred-years-war/feed/ 0 John of Gaunt and John Wyclif http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/14/john-gaunt-john-wyclif/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/14/john-gaunt-john-wyclif/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:50:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50388 Historians have always been somewhat puzzled at the alliance of two such men as John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster and third son of Edward III, and John Wyclif, controversialist and reformer.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/14/john-gaunt-john-wyclif/feed/ 0 What to See in Westminster Abbey http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/27/tours-westminster-abbey-review/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/27/tours-westminster-abbey-review/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:30:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49214 A review and tour of Westminster Abbey

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