The House of Lords in the Middle Ages : a history of the English House of Lords to 1540 / J. Enoch Powell and Keith Wallis
1968, First Edition. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #477276
Physical description; xix, 671 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Witenagemot -- The king's court after the Conquest -- The Normanisation of the king's court -- The court of the Conqueror's sons -- The Anarchy : earldoms for sale -- Henry II : the organiser and his council -- The council and the absent king -- The loss of Normandy and the barons' charter -- The council of an infant king -- The shires come to the council -- The magnates, the council and parliament -- Edward I's parliament in peace and war -- Summons to parliament -- Opposition in parliament -- The Carlisle parliament of 1307 -- The Ordainers and the baronage -- The peers of the realm and the estates -- Summons to parliament, 1307-30 : stabilisation -- The two 'houses' of parliament -- Prelates and peerage -- Recruitment of the peers -- Lords and commons : the last years of Edward III -- The minority of Richard II -- Appeal and judgment of peers -- A closed peerage, two houses and three estates -- The lords in Henry VI's minority -- Lancaster and York -- Yorkist creations and rewards -- The theory of creation by writ -- The lords and the heralds -- The reformation parliament. Subjects; Great Britain Parliament House of Lords. Constitutional history, Medieval. Politics and government. Parliament. Middle Ages.
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