IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 602: Family and Power-Politics in Late Medieval England
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 11.15-12.45
Moderator/Chair: | James Bothwell, School of History, University of Leicester |
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Paper 602-a | English Royal Minorities and the Hundred Years War (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 602-b | Selling Wardship in Mid-13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Social History |
Paper 602-c | The Holland Siblings: The Non-Royal Half-Siblings of Richard II (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | Abstract paper a: The Hundred Years' War was caused in part by the succession of a minor, Edward III, to the English throne, and the subsequent course of the war and efforts to make peace were partly affected by two more royal minorities, those of Richard II and Henry VI. This paper will analyse the significance of the three minorities to the Anglo-French diplomacy of the period, and will suggest that the succession of minors in England was a crucial circumstance in the course of larger events. |