IMC 2025: Sessions
Session 1243: 14th-Century England, III: Church, Parliament, and Locality in 14th-Century England
Wednesday 9 July 2025, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | 14th Century Society |
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| Organiser: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andy King, Department of History, University of Southampton |
| Paper 1243-a | A Special Relationship?: Wales and Parliamentary Representation in the Reign of Edward II (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1243-b | The Shrieval Changes of December 1330 and the Assumption of Royal Authority by Edward III (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1243-c | Getting the Clergy to Pay: The Cutting Edge of Crown-Church Relations (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session examines different aspects of the history of the Church, parliament and the localities in fourteenth-century England. The first paper considers why, uniquely before the sixteenth century, Welsh MPs were returned to the English parliament on two occasions in the reign of Edward II, posing the question: did this indicate a special relationship between the crown and the Principality. The second paper examines the wholesale replacement of sheriffs in December 1330. By investigating the governmental careers of the men appointed, as well as those who were replaced, it asks what this tells us about Edward III’s kingship at the outset of his reign. The third paper considers clerical taxation in the fourteenth century, examining what strategies kings pursued to ensure that the clergy complied with their demands. |