Henry V Archive
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Prince Hal’s Head-Wound: Cause and Effect
Posted on May 20, 2013 | No CommentsThe future King Henry V was hit by an arrow to the face at the Battle of Shrewsbury - how did he survive? -
Medieval Book History Week Lecture: “Practical Latin and Formal English in the 14th-15th Centuries”
Posted on November 13, 2012 | No CommentsThis lecture is part of Medieval Book History Week. Renown Professor Jeremy Catto spoke about literacy and language in England during the later Middle Ages at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto. -
The military ordinances of Henry V: texts and contexts
Posted on October 21, 2012 | No CommentsWe can be certain that Henry V did not invent the idea of disciplinary ordinances for his army, nor was he the last to issue them. -
“Partners in the same”: Monastic Devotional Culture in Late Medieval English Literature
Posted on September 9, 2012 | No CommentsTo understand this apparent incongruity, it is, I argue, necessary to interrogate more carefully the continuation of monastic literary culture and its gradual diffusion beyond the walls of the cloister. -
The personnel of English and Welsh castles, 1272-1422
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsIn England, the role played on the continent by the castellanies would appear to have been performed by the county castle and the sheriff, a post that remained firmly under the king's control in all but a few counties. Instead, a more subtle link between the castle community and political power will have to be found. It will be searched for in the appointment of constables to royal castles, and in grants of ownership of castles, royal or forfeited. It may be found in the building activity that was so common in this period, or in the marriage alliances that created many of the great castle owning estates. -
“Be waar, Hoccleue, I rede thee”: Intertextual Subjectivity in Thomas Hoccleve’s Petitioning Poetry
Posted on July 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe way these operate can be seen in the section of La Male Regle from which I excerpted my paper’s title. It comes about three-quarters of the way through the poem when the narrator relates a first-hand account of how he and his Privy-Seal Office colleagues handle a night of drinking. -
Modernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland
Posted on June 12, 2012 | No CommentsAs I have shown elsewhere, the county of Holland underwent a structural change in the second half of the fourteenth century, when economically the emphasis shifted from agriculture to trade and industry and demographically from the country to the towns. The institutions however did not change. -
The Efficacy of the English Longbow: A Reply to Kelly DeVries
Posted on March 11, 2012 | No CommentsAccording to DeVries, historians (myself specifically included) who argue for the lethal efficacy of the longbow are committing the sin of technological determinism, and indeed ‘have done military history and the history of technology a disservice’... -
Modernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland
Posted on October 2, 2011 | No CommentsModernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland Jansen, H.J.H Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Vol.95 (1980) Abstract On the sixth of January 1425... -
Not Quite One of the Guys: Pantysyllya as Virgin Warrior in Lydgate’s Troy Book
Posted on September 1, 2011 | No CommentsNot Quite One of the Guys: Pantysyllya as Virgin Warrior in Lydgate’s Troy Book Hennequinn, M. Wendy Medieval Feminist Forum 34, no. 1 (2002) Abstract In her book Blood Rites:... -
A Norfolk gentlewoman and Lydgatian patronage: Lady Sibylle Boys and her cultural environment
Posted on August 30, 2011 | No CommentsA Norfolk gentlewoman and Lydgatian patronage: Lady Sibylle Boys and her cultural environment Bale, A. Medium Aevum, 78(2), (2009) Abstract The poetry of John Lydgate (c.1370–1449/50) is often discussed in terms...
