Alison K McHardy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5367006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison K McHardy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison K |
| FAMILY NAME | McHardy |
| SIGNATURE | MCHARDY A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bishop Buckingham Goes to Town
This essay seeks to challenge the opinion that when a bishop was outside his see his diocesan duties were neglected; rather, he was able to combine service to both church and state while staying in London, conducting ecclesiastical business, both routine and exceptional, and attending parliament and council, and networking with fellow prelates. Buckingham’s political role under Richard II is also investigated
Kings’ Courts and Bishops’ Administrations in Fourteenth-Century England
Behind the rhetoric and theory of crown-church conflict there was much cooperation in the everyday world, where practice and pragmatism often overrode legal and theoretical rules. This article examines the ways in which fourteenth-century English bishops and their clerks responded to the demands made of them by the royal courts. Bishops were bombarded with commands from the crown, with a resulting impact on diocesan records. The crown sought hist…
Henry V
Is there a book’s worth of new insights into this short reign, after the endeavours of K.B. McFarlane (1972), Christopher Allmand (2nd edn. 1997) and the team assembled by Gwilym Dodd (2013)? Author Malcolm Vale and publisher present their case in this biography which uses public records, rather than narrative sources, to produce a fresh appraisal of a king who has traditionally, and even from his own time, been the subject of hero-worship. The f…
Superior Spirituality Versus Popular Piety in Late-Medieval England
When K. B. McFarlane wrote his biography of John Wycliffe he was surprised to find that the hero who emerged was not Wycliffe himself but his implacable opponent, William Courtenay, the archbishop of Canterbury from 1381 to 1396. ‘Justice has never been done to Courtenay’s high qualities, above all to the skill and magnanimity with which he led his order through the crisis that now threatened it’, he wrote admiringly, adding by way of explanation…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Hereford Cathedral: A History, ed. Gerald Aylmer and John Tiller (London: Hambledon P., 2000; pp. xxxii+672. £25). A. K. MCHARDY A. K. MCHARDY University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 942–943, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.942 Published: 01 September 2001
Hereford Cathedral
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Hereford Cathedral: A History, ed. Gerald Aylmer and John Tiller (London: Hambledon P., 2000; pp. xxxii+672. £25). A. K. MCHARDY A. K. MCHARDY University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 942–943, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.942 Published: 01 September 2001
The Defence of an Alien Priory
Alien priories, the small dependencies of foreign religious houses established in the years following the Norman Conquest, were partly thank-offerings for military success and partly civilising centres and reminders of home for England's new rulers. Their foundation in the newly-conquered lands mirrored the success of the Anglo-Normans in colonising the British Isles, since later examples were planted in southern Scotland and in Ireland too. In E…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access A. K. MCHARDY A. K. MCHARDY University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 446, April 1997, Pages 447-b–448, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.446.447-b Published: 01 April 1997
The Loss of Archbishop Stratford's Register
The register of Archbishop John Stratford (1333-48) still existed in 1391, when it was consulted by Archbishop Courtenay, but subsequently disappeared. This document shows that its fate was to be the object, along with some of Courtenay's records, of a highway robbery in Rogate, Sussex, during the autumn of 1402 while it was being transported in the baggage-train of Archbishop Thomas Arundel. Though we can speculate on the reasons for this theft,…
B. E. Crawford, St Magnus Cathedral and Orkney's twelfth century renaissance
Careers and Disappointments in the Late-Medieval Church
‘He looked up at the pleasant plate-glass in the windows of the house of his friend the dean, and told himself how, in their college days, he and the dean had been quite equal—quite equal, except that by the voices of all qualified judges in the university he, Mr. Crawley, had been acknowledged to be the riper scholar. And now the Mr. Arabin of those days was the Dean of Barchester ... while he, Crawley, was the perpetual curate of Hogglestock.’ …
Ecclesiastics and Economics
It is a truth widely recognized, though perhaps insufficiently emphasized, that late-medieval England contained large numbers of unbeneficed clergy. The difficulty of studying such men lies in their elusiveness; they made little impact on the obvious source for a study of the English Church during this period, the bishops’ registers (apart from their appearances in the ordinations lists), for these are essentially concerned with benefices and ben…
The English Clergy and the Hundred Years War
The Contribution made by the Church to the English war effort during the Hundred Years War was immense. It is the purpose of this paper to describe the forms which this contribution took, and then to offer some reflections on it. The most important clerical contribution to the war was financial: the taxes voted by the clergy in their two convocations and collected by themselves for the benefit of the crown. These corresponded to the lay subsidies…
Liturgy and propaganda in the diocese of Lincoln during the hundred years war
8 February 1782. This day being appointed as a Fast on the present Troubles and Wars abroad, I went to Weston church this morning at 11 O’clock and there read Prayers proper on the occasion—but there was no sermon after. 8 March 1789. I read prayers and preached this afternoon at Weston Church. Also read with the greatest pleasure a Prayer composed on the occasion on the restoration of his Majesty’s Health, which I received this morning. In offer…
Some Late-Medieval Eton College Wills
The religion of the people is the foundation of the Church and basic to the study of church history. It is in this belief and in the recognition that where direct expression of religious ideas is lacking any material which may shed light on them must be used, that the following study is offered. The evidence on which it is based is drawn from the archives of Eton College and consists largely of wills drawn up before 1500. They number seventy-thre…
The alien priories and the expulsion of aliens from England in 1378
The expulsion of aliens from England in 1378 forms one episode in the history of the alien priories, a story which began with the norman conquest and continued into the fifteenth century. The alien priories—they may be defined as the english dependencies of foreign religious houses—had been subjected to interference from the english crown since 1295, when Edward I’s seizure of them on the outbreak of the anglo-french war became the precedent, bot…
The Promotion of John Buckingham to the See of Lincoln
Despite royal favour the promotion of leading king's clerks to the episcopal bench in fourteenth-century England was not always easily accomplished. The difficulties which Edward in encountered when trying to secure the see of Winchester for William of Wickham are well known. Several years earlier John Buckingham, Wickham's predecessor as keeper of the privy seal, had also met with opposition which threatened to bar his path to a bishopric, despi…
The representation of the English lower clergy in parliament during the later fourteenth century
The service of God in Church and State’: in medieval England these two usually separate activities were combined in the parliamentary attendance of the clergy. Two methods were employed in summoning the clergy: parliamentary abbots and the bishops were called by individual writs of summons; the lower clergy were called indirectly. The writ of summons to each bishop of England and Wales included a mandate, called, from its opening word, the premun…
Bishop Buckingham and the lollards of Lincoln diocese
The first case of lollardy in which Buckingham is known to have acted concerned William Swinderby, the hermit of Leicester. Swinderby’s story is well known, and needs no retelling here. What should be noted as important for our purpose is the timing of his prosecution: the first inhibitions and citations against him were dated 5 March 1382. Thus Buckingham took action before additional powers were obtained from the lay arm and before the Blackfri…
Kings’ Courts and Bishops’ Administrations in Fourteenth-Century England
Behind the rhetoric and theory of crown-church conflict there was much cooperation in the everyday world, where practice and pragmatism often overrode legal and theoretical rules. This article examines the ways in which fourteenth-century English bishops and their clerks responded to the demands made of them by the royal courts. Bishops were bombarded with commands from the crown, with a resulting impact on diocesan records. The crown sought hist…
The Defence of an Alien Priory
Alien priories, the small dependencies of foreign religious houses established in the years following the Norman Conquest, were partly thank-offerings for military success and partly civilising centres and reminders of home for England's new rulers. Their foundation in the newly-conquered lands mirrored the success of the Anglo-Normans in colonising the British Isles, since later examples were planted in southern Scotland and in Ireland too. In E…
Liturgy and propaganda in the diocese of Lincoln during the hundred years war
8 February 1782. This day being appointed as a Fast on the present Troubles and Wars abroad, I went to Weston church this morning at 11 O’clock and there read Prayers proper on the occasion—but there was no sermon after. 8 March 1789. I read prayers and preached this afternoon at Weston Church. Also read with the greatest pleasure a Prayer composed on the occasion on the restoration of his Majesty’s Health, which I received this morning. In offer…
Some Late-Medieval Eton College Wills
The religion of the people is the foundation of the Church and basic to the study of church history. It is in this belief and in the recognition that where direct expression of religious ideas is lacking any material which may shed light on them must be used, that the following study is offered. The evidence on which it is based is drawn from the archives of Eton College and consists largely of wills drawn up before 1500. They number seventy-thre…
The alien priories and the expulsion of aliens from England in 1378
The expulsion of aliens from England in 1378 forms one episode in the history of the alien priories, a story which began with the norman conquest and continued into the fifteenth century. The alien priories—they may be defined as the english dependencies of foreign religious houses—had been subjected to interference from the english crown since 1295, when Edward I’s seizure of them on the outbreak of the anglo-french war became the precedent, bot…
Bishop Buckingham and the lollards of Lincoln diocese
The first case of lollardy in which Buckingham is known to have acted concerned William Swinderby, the hermit of Leicester. Swinderby’s story is well known, and needs no retelling here. What should be noted as important for our purpose is the timing of his prosecution: the first inhibitions and citations against him were dated 5 March 1382. Thus Buckingham took action before additional powers were obtained from the lay arm and before the Blackfri…
The representation of the English lower clergy in parliament during the later fourteenth century
The service of God in Church and State’: in medieval England these two usually separate activities were combined in the parliamentary attendance of the clergy. Two methods were employed in summoning the clergy: parliamentary abbots and the bishops were called by individual writs of summons; the lower clergy were called indirectly. The writ of summons to each bishop of England and Wales included a mandate, called, from its opening word, the premun…
The alien priories and the expulsion of aliens from England in 1378
The expulsion of aliens from England in 1378 forms one episode in the history of the alien priories, a story which began with the norman conquest and continued into the fifteenth century. The alien priories—they may be defined as the english dependencies of foreign religious houses—had been subjected to interference from the english crown since 1295, when Edward I’s seizure of them on the outbreak of the anglo-french war became the precedent, bot…
The Promotion of John Buckingham to the See of Lincoln
Despite royal favour the promotion of leading king's clerks to the episcopal bench in fourteenth-century England was not always easily accomplished. The difficulties which Edward in encountered when trying to secure the see of Winchester for William of Wickham are well known. Several years earlier John Buckingham, Wickham's predecessor as keeper of the privy seal, had also met with opposition which threatened to bar his path to a bishopric, despi…
Some Late-Medieval Eton College Wills
The religion of the people is the foundation of the Church and basic to the study of church history. It is in this belief and in the recognition that where direct expression of religious ideas is lacking any material which may shed light on them must be used, that the following study is offered. The evidence on which it is based is drawn from the archives of Eton College and consists largely of wills drawn up before 1500. They number seventy-thre…
Liturgy and propaganda in the diocese of Lincoln during the hundred years war
8 February 1782. This day being appointed as a Fast on the present Troubles and Wars abroad, I went to Weston church this morning at 11 O’clock and there read Prayers proper on the occasion—but there was no sermon after. 8 March 1789. I read prayers and preached this afternoon at Weston Church. Also read with the greatest pleasure a Prayer composed on the occasion on the restoration of his Majesty’s Health, which I received this morning. In offer…
The English Clergy and the Hundred Years War
The Contribution made by the Church to the English war effort during the Hundred Years War was immense. It is the purpose of this paper to describe the forms which this contribution took, and then to offer some reflections on it. The most important clerical contribution to the war was financial: the taxes voted by the clergy in their two convocations and collected by themselves for the benefit of the crown. These corresponded to the lay subsidies…
Ecclesiastics and Economics
It is a truth widely recognized, though perhaps insufficiently emphasized, that late-medieval England contained large numbers of unbeneficed clergy. The difficulty of studying such men lies in their elusiveness; they made little impact on the obvious source for a study of the English Church during this period, the bishops’ registers (apart from their appearances in the ordinations lists), for these are essentially concerned with benefices and ben…
Careers and Disappointments in the Late-Medieval Church
‘He looked up at the pleasant plate-glass in the windows of the house of his friend the dean, and told himself how, in their college days, he and the dean had been quite equal—quite equal, except that by the voices of all qualified judges in the university he, Mr. Crawley, had been acknowledged to be the riper scholar. And now the Mr. Arabin of those days was the Dean of Barchester ... while he, Crawley, was the perpetual curate of Hogglestock.’ …
B. E. Crawford, St Magnus Cathedral and Orkney's twelfth century renaissance
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access A. K. MCHARDY A. K. MCHARDY University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 446, April 1997, Pages 447-b–448, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.446.447-b Published: 01 April 1997
The Loss of Archbishop Stratford's Register
The register of Archbishop John Stratford (1333-48) still existed in 1391, when it was consulted by Archbishop Courtenay, but subsequently disappeared. This document shows that its fate was to be the object, along with some of Courtenay's records, of a highway robbery in Rogate, Sussex, during the autumn of 1402 while it was being transported in the baggage-train of Archbishop Thomas Arundel. Though we can speculate on the reasons for this theft,…
The Defence of an Alien Priory
Alien priories, the small dependencies of foreign religious houses established in the years following the Norman Conquest, were partly thank-offerings for military success and partly civilising centres and reminders of home for England's new rulers. Their foundation in the newly-conquered lands mirrored the success of the Anglo-Normans in colonising the British Isles, since later examples were planted in southern Scotland and in Ireland too. In E…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Hereford Cathedral: A History, ed. Gerald Aylmer and John Tiller (London: Hambledon P., 2000; pp. xxxii+672. £25). A. K. MCHARDY A. K. MCHARDY University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 942–943, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.942 Published: 01 September 2001
Hereford Cathedral
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Hereford Cathedral: A History, ed. Gerald Aylmer and John Tiller (London: Hambledon P., 2000; pp. xxxii+672. £25). A. K. MCHARDY A. K. MCHARDY University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 942–943, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.942 Published: 01 September 2001
Superior Spirituality Versus Popular Piety in Late-Medieval England
When K. B. McFarlane wrote his biography of John Wycliffe he was surprised to find that the hero who emerged was not Wycliffe himself but his implacable opponent, William Courtenay, the archbishop of Canterbury from 1381 to 1396. ‘Justice has never been done to Courtenay’s high qualities, above all to the skill and magnanimity with which he led his order through the crisis that now threatened it’, he wrote admiringly, adding by way of explanation…
Henry V
Is there a book’s worth of new insights into this short reign, after the endeavours of K.B. McFarlane (1972), Christopher Allmand (2nd edn. 1997) and the team assembled by Gwilym Dodd (2013)? Author Malcolm Vale and publisher present their case in this biography which uses public records, rather than narrative sources, to produce a fresh appraisal of a king who has traditionally, and even from his own time, been the subject of hero-worship. The f…
Kings’ Courts and Bishops’ Administrations in Fourteenth-Century England
Behind the rhetoric and theory of crown-church conflict there was much cooperation in the everyday world, where practice and pragmatism often overrode legal and theoretical rules. This article examines the ways in which fourteenth-century English bishops and their clerks responded to the demands made of them by the royal courts. Bishops were bombarded with commands from the crown, with a resulting impact on diocesan records. The crown sought hist…
Bishop Buckingham Goes to Town
This essay seeks to challenge the opinion that when a bishop was outside his see his diocesan duties were neglected; rather, he was able to combine service to both church and state while staying in London, conducting ecclesiastical business, both routine and exceptional, and attending parliament and council, and networking with fellow prelates. Buckingham’s political role under Richard II is also investigated
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