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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459091203321

Titolo

The ties that bind [[electronic resource] ] : essays in medieval British history in honor of Barbara Hanawalt / / edited by Linda E. Mitchell, Katherine L. French, and Douglas L. Biggs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010

ISBN

1-317-01390-5

1-317-01389-1

1-282-90726-3

9786612907265

1-4094-1155-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MitchellLinda Elizabeth

FrenchKatherine L

BiggsDouglas <1960->

HanawaltBarbara

Disciplina

942.03

Soggetti

National characteristics, British - Medieval period, 1066-1485

Electronic books.

Great Britain History Medieval period, 1066-1485

Great Britain Social conditions

Great Britain Civilization 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Maps, Tables and Figures; Contributors; List of Publications by Barbara A. Hanawalt; Introduction; The Alien Clothworkers of London, 1337-1381; The Bonds of Trade: The Port of Southampton and the Merchants of Winchester and Salisbury; The Mayor's Body; What Is a Nice (Thirteenth-Century) English Woman Doing in the King's Courts?; Even Money That Your Bishop Has Come and Gone: Episcopal Appointments and Translations in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Eng; Identifying Chaste Widows: Documenting a Religious Vocation

The Anonymous Heroine: Aelred of Rievaulx's Rule for his SisterMaud



Marshal and Margaret Marshal: Two Viragos Extraordinaire; Patronage, Preference and Survival: The Life of Lady Margaret Sarnesfield, c. 1381-c. 1444; Margery Kempe and the Parish; The Berenger Family's Experience of the Peasants' Revolt; Unbounded Affection: The Complex Intimacies of 'Simple' Peasants After the Black Death; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays reflects both the broad range of topics Professor Hanawalt has broached as a medieval historian and also those her graduate students felt empowered to explore when working with her. Offering a wide methodological and disciplinary range, from political history to social history, and a broad range of sources, from public records to chronicles and literature, the contributors cover the identification of ""alien"" clothworkers to the communal aspects of the mayor of Norwich's ""body;"" from the self-creation of noble widows to the community creation of ""chaste women"" co