As one of the richest and most powerful land-owning families in later medieval England, the Staffords played their leading part in the politics of their time. This book traces the often complex relations between the three Stafford Dukes of Buckingham and the Crown. In doing so it casts light upon the attitude of successive English kings towards the nobility as a whole, and reassessed the political and military strength of the ruling class. The Staffords derived most of their influence from the ownership of land. Because of the survival of a widely scattered but unique family archive, Dr Rawcliffe has been able to study in unusually close detail the management of their estates and the deployment of their finances, as well as the reorganization of their household, which changed over the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries from a large peripatetic body to a smaller resident establishment where the third Duke of Buckingham could indulge his taste for cultural pursuits.

The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham: 1394–1521 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series, Series Number 11)

Biographies & Memoirs

Rawcliffe, Carole

Historical

Cambridge University Press

History

Europe

Explains how the medical profession developed and functioned against a backdrop of high mortality, widespread disease and persistent problems of public health. Rawcliffe (U. of East Anglia) considers what alternatives were available to the patient, from society doctors to wide women, quacks and hospitals for the sick poor. Medical theories and practices are investigated, along with the often satirical and sometimes hostile attitudes of the man in the street. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sutton Pub Ltd

The medieval English hospital held a mirror to society, reflecting its preoccupations and anxieties, not only about charity and health in this world, but salvation in the next. Using a combination of contemporary documentary and architectural evidence, this text presents an in-depth assessment of one specific institution - St Gile's Hospital, Norwich - and sets it firmly in its historical context. Using this medieval archive, the author aims to answer questions of social and economic change, the response to heresy, the importance of political patronage and the impact of the Reformation, and presents a case study of hospital life in the late Middle Ages. This study has been published to coincide with the 750th anniversary of St Gile's.

Medicine for the Soul: The Life, Death and Resurrection of an English Medieval Hospital : St Giles'S, Norwich, C. 1249-1550

Review\n[An] excellent book...effectively written. ― NOTTINGHAM MEDIEVAL STUDIES\nRawcliffe has long been one of the clearest and loudest voices on the topic of medieval health. . . . A broad range of medievalists will find Urban Bodies pleasing to read, even without a strong background in medical history and its literature. ― COMITATUS\nA masterful study. ... This volume portrays medieval life in the raw and is history at its very best. ― THE RICARDIAN\nSuperb and deeply researched..a very valuable and important study. ― ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL\nA crowning achievement in the distinguished career of one of Britain's foremost historians. ― ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW\nRawcliffe's significant research should send a new generation of scholars in exciting directions, and, at four hundred pages and with almost two thousand footnotes, this book will be the standard text in the field for decades to come. ― ISIS\nThis handsomely produced book systematically dismantles a stubborn Victorian-era notion: that medieval England was squalid, unhealthy, and devoid of sensible medical approaches to protect the public's health. ― AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW\nA wide-ranging book that makes a substantial contribution to existing scholarship through its comparative approach across locations and over time. Medieval historians will benefit from the nuanced analysis of the interaction between cultural, religious and political attitudes to health care. All historians of medicine will appreciate the opportunity to re-evaluate the medieval period. ― SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE\nVividly written, clearly argued and meticulously researched, [it] represents a significant milestone in the revision of public health history ... [and] will remain a key work for scholars of urban and medical histories for many years to come and, it is to be hoped, an inspiration for further study of this important topic. ― URBAN HISTORY\nArchaeologists will gain much from reading it. ― MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY\nAn excellent study of 'communal health' in late medieval English towns. ... The text is very well organised and clearly written. ... A very important book. ― NORTHERN HISTORY\n[An] elegantly written account. ― CHOICE\nGroundbreaking. ― HISTORY TODAY\nThe idea of English medieval towns and cities as filthy, muddy and insanitary is here overturned in a pioneering new study.\nCarole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up the Middle Ages. In earlier work she has already given us scholarly yet sympathetic portrayals of English medicine, hospitals, and welfare for lepers. Now she widens her scope to public health. Her argument is clear, simple and convincing. Through the efforts of crown and civic authorities, mercantile élites and popular" interests, English towns and cities aspired to a far healthier, less polluted environment than previously supposed. All major sources of possible infection were regulated, from sounds and smells to corrupt matter - and to immorality. Once again Professor Rawcliffe has overturned a well-established orthodoxyin the history of pre-modern health and healing. Her book is a magnificent achievement." Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway University of London.\nThis first full-length study of public health in pre-Reformation England challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about the insanitary nature of urban life during "the golden age of bacteria". Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on material remains as well as archives, it examines themedical, cultural and religious contexts in which ideas about the welfare of the communal body developed. Far from demonstrating indifference, ignorance or mute acceptance in the face of repeated onslaughts of epidemic disease, the rulers and residents of English towns devised sophisticated and coherent strategies for the creation of a more salubrious environment; among the plethora of initiatives whose origins often predated the Black Death can also be found measures for the impr

Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities

Boydell Press

Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European Middle Ages, this book is the first serious academic study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices. Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most of our stereotyped ideas about the segregation of medieval lepers originated in the nineteenth century; that leprosy excited a vast range of responses, from admiration to revulsion; that in the later Middle Ages it was diagnosed readily even by laity; that a wide range of treatment was available, that medieval leper hospitals were no more austere than the monasteries on which they were modelled; that the decline of leprosy was not monocausal but implied a complex web of factors - medical, environmental, social and legal. Carole Rawcliffe writes with consummate skill, subtlety and rigour; her book will change forever the image of the medieval leper. CAROLE RAWCLIFFE is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia.

Leprosy in Medieval England

One of the most important publications for many years in the fields of medical, religious and social history. Rawcliffe's book completely overhauls our understanding of leprosy and contributes immensely to our knowledge of the English middle ages. This is a fascinating study that will be a seminal work in the history of leprosy for many years to come. EHR Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European Middle Ages, this book is the first serious, comprehensive study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices. Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most of our stereotyped ideas about the segregation of medieval lepers originated in the nineteenth century; that leprosy excited a vast range of responses, from admiration to revulsion; that in the later Middle Ages it was diagnosed readily even by laity; that a wide range of treatment was available; that medieval leper hospitals were no more austere than the monasteries on which they were modelled; that the decline of leprosy was not monocausal but implied a complex web of factors - medical, environmental, social and legal. Written with consummate skill, subtlety and rigour, this book will change forever the image of the medieval leper. CAROLE RAWCLIFFE is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia.

"Carole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up the Middle Ages. In earlier work she has already given us scholarly yet sympathetic portrayals of English medicine, hospitals, and welfare for lepers. Now she widens her scope to public health. Her argument is clear, simple and convincing. Through the efforts of crown and civic authorities, mercantile élites and "popular" interests, English towns and cities aspired to a far healthier, less polluted environment than previously supposed. All major sources of possible infection were regulated, from sounds and smells to corrupt matter - and to immorality. Once again Professor Rawcliffe has overturned a well-established orthodoxy in the history of pre-modern health and healing. Her book is a magnificent achievement." Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway University of London. This first full-length study of public health in pre-Reformation England challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about the insanitary nature of urban life during "the golden age of bacteria". Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on material remains as well as archives, it examines the medical, cultural and religious contexts in which ideas about the welfare of the communal body developed. Far from demonstrating indifference, ignorance or mute acceptance in the face of repeated onslaughts of epidemic disease, the rulers and residents of English towns devised sophisticated and coherent strategies for the creation of a more salubrious environment; among the plethora of initiatives whose origins often predated the Black Death can also be found measures for the improvement of the water supply, for better food standards and for the care of the sick, both rich and poor. Carole Rawcliffe is Professor of Medieval History, University of East Anglia.

BOYE6

Norwich remained the second largest city in England until the eighteenth century. Its history over the last 450 years is of exceptional interest. Norwich since 1550 is a full account of the post medieval history of the city and covers all aspects of Norwich life, including its population, housing, churches and chapels, politics, work, education, arts, architecture and medical card. While it changed and developed in many ways over the centuries, its textiles could not compete with those of the northern boom towns of the Industrial Revolution. Instead it settled into its role as a regional and banking capital.

Norwich Since 1550

Hambledon Pr

Throughout the middle ages, Norwich was one of the most populous and celebrated cities in England. Dominated by its castle and cathedral priory, it was the centre of government power in East Anglia, as well as an important trading entrepot. With records dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, and many buildings surviving from the middle ages, the history of medieval Norwich is an exceptionally rich one. Medieval Norwich is an account of the growth of the city, with its walls, streams, markets, hospitals and churches, and the lives of its citizens. It traces activities and beliefs, as well as the tensions lying not far beneath the surface that eventually erupted in Kett's Rebellion of 1549.

Medieval Norwich

Wilson, Richard

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The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham: 1394–1521 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series, Series Number 11)

The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham: 1394–1521 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series, Series Number 11)

Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England

Medicine for the Soul: The Life, Death and Resurrection of an English Medieval Hospital : St Giles'S, Norwich, C. 1249-1550

Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities

Leprosy in Medieval England

Leprosy in Medieval England

Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities

Norwich Since 1550

Medieval Norwich