‘The Obscure Lives of Obscure Men’? The Parliamentary Knights of the Shires in the Early Fourteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vi
4. Preface vii
5. Abbreviations viii
6. Writing Techniques in Thirteenth - and Fourteenth -Century England: The Role of the Sicilian and Papal Letter Collections as Practical Models for 1
7. The Great Bardney Abbey Scandal, 1303–18 31
8. A Reassessment of the Loyalty of the Household Knights of Edward II 47
9. Ramon Durand of Toulouse: A Lawyer Turned Knight in the Service of the Kings of England 73
10. Urban Identity and Political Rebellion: London and Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt, 1328–29 89
11. ‘The Obscure Lives of Obscure Men’? The Parliamentary Knights of the Shires in the Early Fourteenth Century 107
12. The Five Giants: Institutional Hierarchy and Social Provision in Later Medieval Leicestershire 131
13. The Mariner in Fourteenth -Century England 153
14. Dying beyond the Seas: Testamentary Preparation for Campaigning during the Hundred Years War 177
15. Richard II and the Monasteries of London 197
16. INDEX 225