IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1220: Keeping and Breaking the Unwritten Rules of Kingship in Late Medieval England
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Andrew M. Spencer, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge |
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Moderator/Chair: | Andrew M. Spencer, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge |
Paper 1220-a | The Good Parliament and Its Aftermath (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1220-b | Breaking the Rules of Kingship?: Richard II and the Mortimer Inheritance, 1382-4 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | There were few official written rules for kingship in late medieval England, though plenty of writers sought to give advice to kings. Mostly, however, kings and political society worked on a series of unwritten rules about how a king should and should not behave. This session will look at how three kings in the 13th and 14th centuries kept and broke those unwritten rules and the consequences for them. |