Medievalists.net » Plantagenet 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 Reflection of the Wars of the Roses in Thomas Malory`s Le Morte D`Arthur: Literary-cultural analysis http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/reflection-wars-roses-thomas-malorys-le-morte-darthur-literary-cultural-analysis/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/reflection-wars-roses-thomas-malorys-le-morte-darthur-literary-cultural-analysis/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:12:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51808 The aim of this research paper is to analyse the Morte D’Arthur and find certain historical moments incorporated in the book. Firstly, as the goal of work follows a hypothesis that Thomas Malory reflected manifold incidents from the Wars of the Roses in the Morte D’Arthur, it was inevitable to understand author’s position in this civil war, which meant investigating in the authorship.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/reflection-wars-roses-thomas-malorys-le-morte-darthur-literary-cultural-analysis/feed/ 0 Like Father Like Son? Henry III’s Tomb at Westminster Abbey as a Case Study in Late Thirteenth-Century English Kingship http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/07/like-father-like-son-henry-iiis-tomb-westminster-abbey-case-study-late-thirteenth-century-english-kingship/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/07/like-father-like-son-henry-iiis-tomb-westminster-abbey-case-study-late-thirteenth-century-english-kingship/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2014 01:08:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50241 Who was this king, and who made this grand monument to him? An inscription around the edge of the upper tomb chest identifies its occupant as Henry III, the English king who died in 1272 after a reign of fifty-six years.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/07/like-father-like-son-henry-iiis-tomb-westminster-abbey-case-study-late-thirteenth-century-english-kingship/feed/ 0 Power relations in the royal forests of England patronage : privilege and legitimacy in the reigns of Henry III and Edward I http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/28/power-relations-royal-forests-england-patronage-privilege-legitimacy-reigns-henry-iii-edward/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/28/power-relations-royal-forests-england-patronage-privilege-legitimacy-reigns-henry-iii-edward/#comments Thu, 29 May 2014 01:16:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49966 The England of the Plantagenets (1189–1377) which honed the royal forest system was a typically medieval land. Its ultimate foundations lay upon the long established notion of the three estates: those who fought, those who prayed, and those who worked.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/28/power-relations-royal-forests-england-patronage-privilege-legitimacy-reigns-henry-iii-edward/feed/ 0 Great Medieval Fiction 2013! http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/28/great-medieval-fiction-2013/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/28/great-medieval-fiction-2013/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2013 23:55:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45337 For those of you who enjoy some fantasy or a historical novel - this list is for you!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/28/great-medieval-fiction-2013/feed/ 0 The Fortune of War: Henry I and Normandy, 1116 – 1120 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/08/the-fortune-of-war-henry-i-and-normandy-1116-1120/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/08/the-fortune-of-war-henry-i-and-normandy-1116-1120/#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:17:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42698 The Fortune of War: Henry I and Normandy, 1116 – 1120 Dillon Byrd Oklahoma Christian University, Tau Sigma, Journal of Historical Studies, Vol.21 (2013) Abstract Henry I had great success in keeping the peace in England and Normandy, aside from the first two years of his reign. There were only two Norman uprisings against Henry, the first […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/08/the-fortune-of-war-henry-i-and-normandy-1116-1120/feed/ 0 How did the expansion of royal authority affect the traditional ruling institutions during the reigns of Henry II and Philip II Augustus? http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/how-did-the-expansion-of-royal-authority-affect-the-traditional-ruling-institutions-during-the-reigns-of-henry-ii-and-philip-ii-augustus/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/how-did-the-expansion-of-royal-authority-affect-the-traditional-ruling-institutions-during-the-reigns-of-henry-ii-and-philip-ii-augustus/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:23:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39897 The study of the Angevin kings can be seen as effectivelyseparating Henry II and his successors from mere kings of England and can be seen asresponsible for highlighting the continental origins of these kings.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/how-did-the-expansion-of-royal-authority-affect-the-traditional-ruling-institutions-during-the-reigns-of-henry-ii-and-philip-ii-augustus/feed/ 0 Perkin Warbeck: Whether my hero was or was not an impostor, he was believed to be the true man by his contemporaries http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/perkin-warbeck-whether-my-hero-was-or-was-not-an-impostor-he-was-believed-to-be-the-true-man-by-his-contemporaries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/perkin-warbeck-whether-my-hero-was-or-was-not-an-impostor-he-was-believed-to-be-the-true-man-by-his-contemporaries/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 08:53:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37677 So what about the famous confession? By historians in the Tudor tradition this is usually seen as absolute proof that he was an impostor, arguing that "there is nothing in [his] confession which should make us doubt his truthfulness". Somehow they cannot have looked at it too closely.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/perkin-warbeck-whether-my-hero-was-or-was-not-an-impostor-he-was-believed-to-be-the-true-man-by-his-contemporaries/feed/ 0 The Curious Career and Uncertain Past of Perkin Warbeck http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-curious-career-and-uncertain-past-of-perkin-warbeck/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-curious-career-and-uncertain-past-of-perkin-warbeck/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 08:34:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37674 Was Warbeck just another in a long line of pretenders to the throne of England, or did his appearance in Ireland in 1491 prove the innocence
of Richard III, whom most historians accuse of murdering his nephews, the Princes in the Tower?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-curious-career-and-uncertain-past-of-perkin-warbeck/feed/ 0 Comital Authority, Accountability and the Personnel of Comital Administration in Greater Anjou, 1129-51 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/comital-authority-accountability-and-the-personnel-of-comital-administration-in-greater-anjou-1129-51/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/comital-authority-accountability-and-the-personnel-of-comital-administration-in-greater-anjou-1129-51/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:41:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37310 This paper was part of SESSION VIII:Power & Politics in the Long Twelfth Century. It examined the charters of Geoffrey of

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/comital-authority-accountability-and-the-personnel-of-comital-administration-in-greater-anjou-1129-51/feed/ 0 The King’s Mercy. An Attribute of Later Medieval English Monarchy http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/09/the-kings-mercy-an-attribute-of-later-medieval-english-monarchy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/09/the-kings-mercy-an-attribute-of-later-medieval-english-monarchy/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:42:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35524 Modern assumptions about medieval justice still tend to see this process of amelioration as merely occasional and exceptional: mercy needed to be applied only where special circumstances made it inappropriate to apply the full rigours of the law. This, however, is seriously to misunderstand both the purpose and the pervasiveness of mercy in the operation of medieval justice.

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