Christine Carpenter

Christine Carpenter, Ba Ma Dippt

This book presents a truly coherent account of the Wars of the Roses.

Politics and the Constitution in England, C.1437-1509

The Wars of the Roses

Chetham's Library

Joan Armburgh

Robert Armburgh

Newly-discovered family correspondence to stand alongside the Paston letters and Stonor papers.

The Brokholes Inheritance in Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, and Essex, C.1417-c.1453 : Chetham's Manuscript Mun. E.6.10 (4)

The Armburgh Papers

David Crouch

Professor of Early Medieval History Rosamond McKitterick

This book combines a study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England.

The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century

The Beaumont Twins

Mark Bailey

A theory of the margin has long featured in the work of medieval historians. Marginal regions are taken to be those of poor soil or geographical remoteness, where farmers experienced particular difficulties in grain production. It is argued that such regions were cultivated only when demographic pressure intensified in the thirteenth century, but that a combination of soil exhaustion and demographic decline resulted in severe economic contraction by the end of the fourteenth century. Marginal regions are seen not just as sensitive barometers of economic change but as important catalysts in that change. Despite the importance placed by historians on the general theory of the margin, this book represents the first detailed study of a 'marginal region'. It focuses upon East Anglian Breckland, whose blowing sands are among the most barren soils in lowland England. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, this study reconstructs Breckland's late medieval economy, and shows it to be more diversified and resilient than the stereotype depicted in marginal theory.

East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages

A Marginal Economy?

Christine Carpenter, Ba Ma Dippt

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