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The Black Death, The Peasants' Revolt, The Hundred Years War, The War Of The Roses... A Succession Of Dramatic Social And Political Events Reshaped England In The Period 1360 To 1461. In His Lucid And Penetrating Account Of This Formative Period, Gerald Harriss Draws On The Research Of Thelast Thirty Years To Illuminate Late Medieval Society At Its Peak, From The Triumphalism Of Edward Iii In 1360 To The Collapse Of Lancastrian Rule.the Political Narrative Centres On The Deposition Of Richard Ii In 1399 And The Establishment Of The House Of Lancaster, Which Was In Turn Overthrown In The Wars Of The Roses. Abroad, Henry V's Heroic Victory At Agincourt In 1415 Led To The English Conquest Of Northern France, Lasting Until 1450.both Produced Long Term Consequences: The First Shaped The English Constitution Up To The Stuart Civil War, While The Second Generated Lasting Hostility Between England And France, And A Residual Wariness Of Military Intervention In Europe.equally Significant Changes Occurred In English Society. The Black Death Produced A Crisis In Agrarian Structures, Marked By The Peasants' Revolt In 1381 And The End Of Serfdom. In Landed Society Distinctive Grades Of Knights,
- Author
- Gerald Leslie Harriss
- Publisher
- Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198228165
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
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