Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. List of Abbreviations x
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: SOURCES
8. 1. Froissart and the Great Revolt 11
9. 2. ‘Defenders of truth’: Lord Cobham, John Gower, and the Political Crisis of 1387–88 35
10. 3. The Authorship of the Continuation of the Eulogium Historiarum: A Reconsideration 53
11. PART II: GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
12. 4. The Bequests of Isabel of Castile, 1st Duchess of York, and Chaucer’s ‘Complaint of Mars’ 75
13. 5. Lollards in Arms: Lollardy, Loyalty, and the Trauma of the Hundred Years War 97
14. 6. Pardons for Self-Defence in the Reign of Richard II: The Use and Abuse of Legal Formulas 121
15. 7. The Representation of Devonshire in the ‘Bad’ Parliament of January 1377 135
16. 8. John of Gaunt, Richard II, and Plantagenet Family Politics in the 1390s 149
17. 9. Richard II’s Bishops: Fair Weather Friends? 179
18. 10. Power, Piety, and Presence: The Cult of Corpus Christi and the 1389 Guild Enquiry in Lincolnshire 203
19. PART III: COMMEMORATION
20. 11. Edward, the Black Prince, and Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France: Chivalry and Rivalry in Life and Death 221
21. 12. ‘Suche scripture … shewyng what I was’: The Brass of Margaret of Cieszyn and Associated Monuments 235
22. 13. The Patronage of Queen Isabella (d. 1358): Monuments of the Royal Household at Friars Minor London 249
23. 14. The ‘Dreadful Draytons’ of Dorchester and their Brasses 269
24. Nigel Saul as a Teacher: An Appreciation 287
25. Bibliography 291
26. Index 297
27. Tabula Gratulatoria 307