Mediaeval History Theses: Recent submissions
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"Establishing justice and telling stories" : paradigms of norm transmission in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman and Old French literary and legal texts
(University of St Andrews, 2018) - ThesisThe texts that comprise the corpus of Old French and Anglo-Norman literature of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries feature numerous portrayals of courtly life. The rules of that life, as they are presented in the ... -
Oaths, kings and subjects : a study of the oaths sworn to kings by subjects in England, c.870-c,1200
(University of St Andrews, 2018) - ThesisThis thesis is a study of the oaths sworn by subjects to kings of England between c. 870 and c. 1200. Who swore oaths to the king? When did they swear? What sorts of oaths were sworn? What commitments did swearing lead ... -
The counts of Aumale and Holderness, 1086-1260
(1977)The counts of Aumale, who held the land of Holderness for two hundred years, came into England at the end of the Conqueror's reign. They came from Aumale in the north-eastern corner of Normandy, a small county grouped ... -
Administration on the estates of Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, 1402-1460
(University of St Andrews, 1973) - ThesisThe purpose of this work is to describe the system of administration which existed on the estates of a megnatic of the fifteenth century, using mainly the estate records, the accounts, as source materials. To set the period ... -
A social and economic study of the Cinque Ports region, 1450-1600
(University of St Andrews, 1979) - ThesisThe Cinque Ports are the only example of a fully-developed confederate structure in English history. As a result, historians have tended to consider the fortunes of the region as a whole and have stressed the factors which ...