Medieval Intrigue: Royal Murder and Regnal Legitimacy

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Ian Mortimer considers some of the key questions in Medieval history and rethinks the nature of historical evidence.

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Overview

Ian Mortimer considers some of the key questions in Medieval history and rethinks the nature of historical evidence.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781847065896
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publication date: 11/18/2010
  • Edition description: World rights
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Ian Mortimer is the author of the bestselling The Time-Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. He holds BA, PhD and DLitt degrees from the University of Exeter and an MA in archive studies from UCL. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (by whom he was awarded the Alexander Prize in 2004), and has worked for the Historical Manuscripts Commission and the universities of Exeter and Reading. Among his other publications are a series of four interlinked historical biographies collectively covering English politics 1300-1415 and a revolutionary study of medicine in seventeenth-century England.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements \ Abbreviations \ Introduction \ 1. Objectivity and information: a methodological introduction \ 2. Sermons of Sodomy: a reconsideration of Edward II's sodomitical reputation \ 3. The Death of Edward II in Berkeley Castle \  4. Twelve angry scholars: reactions to 'The death of Edward II' \  5. The Plot of the earl of Kent, 1328-30 \ 6. Edward III, his father and the Fieschi \ 7. Edward III and the moneylenders \ 8. Richard II and the succession to the Crown \ 9. The rules governing succession to the Crown, 1199-1399 \ 10. Regnal legitimacy and the concept of the royal pretender \ 11. Concluding remarks \ Full titles of works cited in the notes \ Index

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