In anticipation of his forthcoming volume from the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Des Atkinson offers an insight into ‘extents’ – how medieval nunneries kept track of their manorial holdings.
In medieval England Queen Consorts were not the only women whose status and style of life were changed forever at the coronation of a king. Crowning conferred on the monarch many prerogative rights; Richard II (1377-1399) – after defeating the challenge of the Lords Appellant in 1387 – saw them codified in law. The focus […]
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