| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 490 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- Preface: a Little Understood Land -- Part I Cornwall: its Gentlemen, Government and Identity -- 1. The Very Ends of the Earth: an Overview of Fourteenth-Century Cornwall -- 2. Office-Holding in a Wild Spot -- 3. Since the Time of King Arthur: Gentry Identity and the Commonalty of Cornwall -- 4. An Extraordinary Folk: the Cornish People -- Part II Distant Dominium: Comital, Ducal and Regnal Lordship -- 5. The Final Tempestuous Years of the Earldom, 1300-36 |
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6. The Black Prince and his Duchy, 1337-76 -- 7. Richard of Bordeaux: Duke of Cornwall and King of England, 1376-99 -- Part III Connectivity: Cornwall and the Wider Realm -- Communication, Movement and Exchange: Connectivity Frameworks -- 8. Sovereign Kings and Demanding Subjects: Regnal Connectivity -- 9. Pillagers with Long Knives: Military Connectivity -- 10. Formidable Lords and True Tenants: Lordly Connectivity -- 11. Gold, Tin and Terrible Ale: Commercial Connectivity -- 12. Lawless Judges and Litigious Cornishmen: Legal Connectivity -- 13. God and Cornwall: Ecclesiastical Connectivity |
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14. Of Shipmen, Smugglers and Pirates: Maritime Connectivity -- Connecting Cornwall -- Conclusion: Cornish Otherness and English Hegemony? -- Epilogue: Contesting Cornwall -- Appendices -- I. Cornwall's Office-Holders, c. 1300-c. 1400 -- II. Cornish Men-at-Arms and Mounted Archers who Served the King between c. 1298 and c. 1415 -- III. Cornish Ports that sent ships to Royal Fleets between c. 1297 and c. 1420 -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The links between Cornwall, a county frequently considered remote and separate in the Middle Ages, and the wider realm of England are newly discussed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-462) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cornish -- Ethnic identity -- History -- To 1500
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Kings and rulers
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| SUBJECT |
Cornwall (England : County) -- History -- To 1500
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Great Britain -- History -- To 1485.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056725
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Cornwall (England : County) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
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Cornwall (England : County) -- Biography
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| Subject |
England -- Cornwall (County)
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787446984 |
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1787446980 |
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