Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages

The notion of service was ingrained in medieval culture, prominent throughout the language and life of the time.

List of contents

What was a servant? - P J P Goldberg
Service, serfdom and English labour legislation, 1350-1500 -
The material rewards of service in late medieval Brittany: ducal servants and their residences - Alan James
Service and tenure in late medieval Scotland, 1314-1475 - Alexander Grant
Preparation for service in the late medieval church - Virginia Davis
Masters, patrons and careers of graduates in fifteenth-century England - Jeremy Catto
The household retinue of Henry V and the ethos of English public life - D A L Morgan
Private vice, public service? Civil Service and chose publique in fifteenth-century France - Kathleen Daly
Ffor the myght off the lande, aftir the myght off the grete lordes thereoff, stondith most in the kynges officers: the English crown, provinces and dominions in the fifteenth centuryEnglish crown, provinces and dominions in the fifteen - Ralph A Griffiths

About the author

Anne Curry, Elizabeth Matthew

Product details

• Authors: Anne Curry
• Assisted by: Anne Curry (Editor), Elizabeth Matthew (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2001
• EAN: 9780851158143
• ISBN: 978-0-85115-814-3
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 241 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: The Fifteenth Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Medieval, History - General History