Falling from Grace
J. S. Bothwell
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Description for Falling from Grace
Hardback. This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls' Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
This original study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell, usually dramatically and often violently, from position and power in the period 1075-1455. It also considers what those who survived this fall did while out of favour and what some families did to attempt to revive their fortunes. For those noble dynasties that managed to survive such downturns, there was usually an attempt to return to position, if not power – though the road was never easy and, this book argues, increasingly involved sustained efforts by wives, mothers and daughters.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719075216
SKU
V9780719075216
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About J. S. Bothwell
J. S. Bothwell is Lecturer in Later Medieval English History at the University of Leicester -- .
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