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Essays offer a lively snapshot of important topics. The essays presented here draw on a number of different approaches and perspectives to address and illuminate key aspects and issues of the period. Longitudinal studies of king's confessors and corrodies of the crown provide insights into the intersection of political, religious and demographic currents over the longue duree, and are complemented by studies of documentary sources of various kinds - newsletters, chronicles, and municipal archives - to challenge current understandings of important events and processes such as the deposition of Edward II, the evolving identity of the parliamentary peers, and Richard II's vision for the house of Lancaster. Prosopographical and biographical studies of post-plague clerics, and of knights within comital affinities and within their own individual affinity groups, shed light on county communities and gentry society; they also demonstrate the impact of the Black Death on society at large, especially on the question of religious continuity and discontinuity at the parish level. Contributors: Paul Dryburgh, Pierre Gaite, Chris Given-Wilson, Michael Jones, Taylor Kniphfer, Samuel Lane, Jonathan Mackman, Alison McHardy, Matt Raven, David Robinson.

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Bietet der Sammelband ein breites Spektrum an neuen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen zu einer Vielzahl von Themen. Besonders hervorzuheben sind die Kapitel, in denen bisher wenig untersuchte, aber auch bekannte Dokumente neu bewertet werden. (The anthology offers a broad spectrum of new scholarly insights on a variety of topics. Particularly noteworthy are the chapters that reassess both little-studied and well-known documents.) * DEUTSCHEN ARCHIV *

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PAUL DRYBURGH is Principal Records Specialist (Medieval) at The National Archives, UK. Jonathan Mackman is a Research Fellow with the History of Parliament Trust. He has contributed to numerous research and archival projects over many years, and has edited and published several medieval texts on a variety of subjects ALISON K. MCHARDY was formerly Reader in Medieval English History at the University of Nottingham. David Robinson has edited two previous volumes of Archbishop Melton's register. He is working on two further volumes as member of a collaborative project to complete the Canterbury and York Society edition of this important register.

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