Melissa Raven
Biographic Data
| ID | 75169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Raven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Raven |
| SIGNATURE | RAVEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6181-0072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Improved social equity learning in an introduction to sustainability course
Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact on diverse students’ social equity outcome measures that result from incorporating social justice education and inclusive practices into an introductory course on sustainability offered online asynchronously, online synchronously and in-person. Design/methodology/approach From fall 2020 to fall 2021, 706 students took “Introduction to Sustainability” at Michigan State University. A revised curriculum …
A Lettered Knight in Fourteenth-Century England
This article examines the Scalacronica, a chronographic work authored by the soldier and knight Thomas Gray (d. 1369), as a work of political thinking. In doing so, it takes inspiration from recent approaches which have diversified the kinds of sources used in the study of political ideas. Three themes in the Scalacronica — the king’s use of the realm’s resources, the provision of counsel, and the wider role of the nobility and of kingship itself…
Servile migration and seigniorial reaction in England
Migration was common in medieval England. Serfdom, however, in theory severely restricted the mobility of villeins. This article explores servile migration through a close study of the manorial court rolls of the manors of Great Waltham and High Easter (Essex). By doing so, it contributes to ongoing debates over the nature and decline of serfdom in medieval England and over the role of towns as destinations for migration, which has been seen as c…
Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II
Journal Article Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul, ed. Jessica A. Lutkin and J.S. Hamilton Get access Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul, ed. Jessica A. Lutkin and J.S. Hamilton (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022; pp. xi + 307. £80). Matt Raven Matt Raven University of Nottingham, UK [email protected]…
Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland
The international wool trade was an important part of Northumberland’s economy in the fourteenth century, and participation in it was central to the working lives of many local merchants. However, in the mid-fourteenth century the wool trade was subjected to an unprecedented period of royal regulation and taxation. The reaction of local export merchants to this was smuggling. This article examines both the practice and the prosecution of wool smu…
Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29)
The late medieval period was an important phase in the history of political communication in England, as more people than ever before became involved in debates about royal governance. The first half of the fourteenth century, however, has been relatively under-studied in this regard. This article analyses a set of arguments put forward during a revolt led by Henry, earl of Lancaster, in 1328–29. After outlining the revolt’s historical and histor…
Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c .1337–63
The process of law enforcement helped to shape the state in the Middle Ages. This article uses an extensive array of court records to provide the first detailed account of royal efforts to police the illegal export of wool in mid-fourteenth century England, when the wool trade was subjected to unprecedented levels of taxation and discussed in moral, as well as fiscal, terms. It shows that these efforts remained heavily centralized in terms of bot…
Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c . 1337–45
The medieval English wool trade was a commercial activity of huge economic importance. The historiography of the medieval wool trade, however, has focused overwhelmingly on its legitimate side. This article uses the evidence of legal proceedings prosecuted in the royal courts to provide the first detailed account of wool smuggling in the fourteenth century, a time of heavy governmental regulation and hugely increased taxation. It demonstrates tha…
The Earldom Endowments of 1337
This article examines Edward III’s earldom creations of March 1337 and the endowments given to these earls by Edward III in order to support their newly acquired rank. It re-evaluates the form of these grants and the governmental processes they stimulated within a context of ideological assumptions about the inalienability of the lands and rights thought to pertain to the Crown by contemporaries, as applicable to the English polity of the mid-fou…
Diplomacy, counsel and the nobility of fourteenth-century England
This article provides an analytical study of a group of earls in diplomatic processes in the mid fourteenth century, within a wider framework of diplomatic relations and political thinking on the role of the earls as important counsellors of the king. It aims to bridge a historiographical divide between diplomatic history and the history of the nobility in domestic political structures by demonstrating how the traditional role of the earls as the…
Magnate Counsel and Parliament, c.1340–76
The mid 14th century has long been identified as a crucial period in the emergence of the Commons. Its rise fundamentally reconfigured the traditional landscape of representation, in which the magnates embodied the ‘community of the realm’. It is the place of the Commons that has drawn the bulk of scholarly attention. Through a close examination of the surviving Parliament Rolls for the period 1340–76, this article argues that magnate counsel, es…
The earls of Edward III and the polity
This article examines the retinues of two English earls from 1330-60 to ascertain the extent and nature of their local influence, within a wider context of military activity and the changing form of local government and peacekeeping. It demonstrates that the followers of the earl of Northampton in Essex were recruited largely for military purposes but that those of the earl of Arundel in Sussex enjoyed a substantial degree of influence over local…
Drinkers, non‐drinkers and deferrers
There is a common perception that football and alcohol go hand in hand and that players and fans routinely engage in excessive and irresponsible drinking. In Australia, this is manifest in the stereotypical ‘Pissed Aussie Rules fan’. Following research with Australian Rules football fans in South Australia, we identified three categories of fans according to their (non)engagement with alcohol: Drinkers, Non‐Drinkers and Deferrers. Deferrers were …
Drinkers, non‐drinkers and deferrers
There is a common perception that football and alcohol go hand in hand and that players and fans routinely engage in excessive and irresponsible drinking. In Australia, this is manifest in the stereotypical ‘Pissed Aussie Rules fan’. Following research with Australian Rules football fans in South Australia, we identified three categories of fans according to their (non)engagement with alcohol: Drinkers, Non‐Drinkers and Deferrers. Deferrers were …
Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c . 1337–45
The medieval English wool trade was a commercial activity of huge economic importance. The historiography of the medieval wool trade, however, has focused overwhelmingly on its legitimate side. This article uses the evidence of legal proceedings prosecuted in the royal courts to provide the first detailed account of wool smuggling in the fourteenth century, a time of heavy governmental regulation and hugely increased taxation. It demonstrates tha…
Magnate Counsel and Parliament, c.1340–76
The mid 14th century has long been identified as a crucial period in the emergence of the Commons. Its rise fundamentally reconfigured the traditional landscape of representation, in which the magnates embodied the ‘community of the realm’. It is the place of the Commons that has drawn the bulk of scholarly attention. Through a close examination of the surviving Parliament Rolls for the period 1340–76, this article argues that magnate counsel, es…
Drinkers, non‐drinkers and deferrers
There is a common perception that football and alcohol go hand in hand and that players and fans routinely engage in excessive and irresponsible drinking. In Australia, this is manifest in the stereotypical ‘Pissed Aussie Rules fan’. Following research with Australian Rules football fans in South Australia, we identified three categories of fans according to their (non)engagement with alcohol: Drinkers, Non‐Drinkers and Deferrers. Deferrers were …
Magnate Counsel and Parliament, c.1340–76
The mid 14th century has long been identified as a crucial period in the emergence of the Commons. Its rise fundamentally reconfigured the traditional landscape of representation, in which the magnates embodied the ‘community of the realm’. It is the place of the Commons that has drawn the bulk of scholarly attention. Through a close examination of the surviving Parliament Rolls for the period 1340–76, this article argues that magnate counsel, es…
The earls of Edward III and the polity
This article examines the retinues of two English earls from 1330-60 to ascertain the extent and nature of their local influence, within a wider context of military activity and the changing form of local government and peacekeeping. It demonstrates that the followers of the earl of Northampton in Essex were recruited largely for military purposes but that those of the earl of Arundel in Sussex enjoyed a substantial degree of influence over local…
Diplomacy, counsel and the nobility of fourteenth-century England
This article provides an analytical study of a group of earls in diplomatic processes in the mid fourteenth century, within a wider framework of diplomatic relations and political thinking on the role of the earls as important counsellors of the king. It aims to bridge a historiographical divide between diplomatic history and the history of the nobility in domestic political structures by demonstrating how the traditional role of the earls as the…
The Earldom Endowments of 1337
This article examines Edward III’s earldom creations of March 1337 and the endowments given to these earls by Edward III in order to support their newly acquired rank. It re-evaluates the form of these grants and the governmental processes they stimulated within a context of ideological assumptions about the inalienability of the lands and rights thought to pertain to the Crown by contemporaries, as applicable to the English polity of the mid-fou…
Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c .1337–63
The process of law enforcement helped to shape the state in the Middle Ages. This article uses an extensive array of court records to provide the first detailed account of royal efforts to police the illegal export of wool in mid-fourteenth century England, when the wool trade was subjected to unprecedented levels of taxation and discussed in moral, as well as fiscal, terms. It shows that these efforts remained heavily centralized in terms of bot…
Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c . 1337–45
The medieval English wool trade was a commercial activity of huge economic importance. The historiography of the medieval wool trade, however, has focused overwhelmingly on its legitimate side. This article uses the evidence of legal proceedings prosecuted in the royal courts to provide the first detailed account of wool smuggling in the fourteenth century, a time of heavy governmental regulation and hugely increased taxation. It demonstrates tha…
Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland
The international wool trade was an important part of Northumberland’s economy in the fourteenth century, and participation in it was central to the working lives of many local merchants. However, in the mid-fourteenth century the wool trade was subjected to an unprecedented period of royal regulation and taxation. The reaction of local export merchants to this was smuggling. This article examines both the practice and the prosecution of wool smu…
Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29)
The late medieval period was an important phase in the history of political communication in England, as more people than ever before became involved in debates about royal governance. The first half of the fourteenth century, however, has been relatively under-studied in this regard. This article analyses a set of arguments put forward during a revolt led by Henry, earl of Lancaster, in 1328–29. After outlining the revolt’s historical and histor…
A Lettered Knight in Fourteenth-Century England
This article examines the Scalacronica, a chronographic work authored by the soldier and knight Thomas Gray (d. 1369), as a work of political thinking. In doing so, it takes inspiration from recent approaches which have diversified the kinds of sources used in the study of political ideas. Three themes in the Scalacronica — the king’s use of the realm’s resources, the provision of counsel, and the wider role of the nobility and of kingship itself…
Servile migration and seigniorial reaction in England
Migration was common in medieval England. Serfdom, however, in theory severely restricted the mobility of villeins. This article explores servile migration through a close study of the manorial court rolls of the manors of Great Waltham and High Easter (Essex). By doing so, it contributes to ongoing debates over the nature and decline of serfdom in medieval England and over the role of towns as destinations for migration, which has been seen as c…
Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II
Journal Article Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul, ed. Jessica A. Lutkin and J.S. Hamilton Get access Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul, ed. Jessica A. Lutkin and J.S. Hamilton (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022; pp. xi + 307. £80). Matt Raven Matt Raven University of Nottingham, UK [email protected]…
Improved social equity learning in an introduction to sustainability course
Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact on diverse students’ social equity outcome measures that result from incorporating social justice education and inclusive practices into an introductory course on sustainability offered online asynchronously, online synchronously and in-person. Design/methodology/approach From fall 2020 to fall 2021, 706 students took “Introduction to Sustainability” at Michigan State University. A revised curriculum …
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Medieval Literature and History (9 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (6 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)