Falling from Grace: Reversal of Fortune and the English Nobility 10751455

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This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls' Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. -- .

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""Falling from Grace" is an innovative and illuminating study, providing a new dimension to our understanding of the mentalities of the medieval nobility. Investigating the neglected concept of secular sin and redemption in the Middle Ages, it ranges widely over the theme of noble disgrace from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses. Bothwell has drawn together an imaginative range of sources and themes in political and cultural history to create a book of considerable significance and lasting worth." --Professor Mark Ormrod, University of York

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J. S. Bothwell is Lecturer in Later Medieval English History at the University of Leicester