Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record

Herausgeber: Malay, Jessica L

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Produktbeschreibung

Anne Clifford, in her Great Books of Record, places herself within the dynamic 600 year history of the Clifford family. This book is unique, and includes a wide variety of records that provide a view, unbroken for centuries, into life on the Clifford estates in England (as well as the borders of Wales, Ireland and Scotland) and the family's involvement at the centre of political life. Here we glimpse the lives of simple widows, traders, farmers and labourers juxtaposed with the adventures of soldiers, lords and ladies, princes and princesses. We see how rebellions, crusades and foreign wars impacted both the great and the humble, and we witness changes in the practices of justice and custom. In this book, Anne Clifford asserts the centrality of women to the success of the Clifford and other noble families, including the monarchy. She writes herself into this history, asserting her own rights to govern the lands of her father after her decades-long inheritance dispute. Her composition of the Great Books draws upon medieval traditions and early modern scholarship, and builds upon these through the inclusion of biographies of all the Clifford lords and ladies, along with an extended biography of her mother Margaret Russell and her own autobiography, 'The Life of Mee'. Those interested in the lives of medieval and early modern women, changes in culture, the effect of the political upon individuals, and the inspiring life of Anne Clifford will find this a rich and rewarding book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 992
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 191mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1837g
• ISBN-13: 9780719091872
• ISBN-10: 071909187X
• Artikelnr.: 42372894

Autorenporträt

Jessica L. Malay is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Huddersfield

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Robert de Veteripont and Idonea de Builli 2. The last Veteripont lords
Sibilla Ferrers
and Isabella Fitz Geoffrey 3. Isabella and Idonea de Veteripont 4. The early Cliffords of Herefordshire 5. Roger de Clifford III and Isabella de Veteripont 6. Robert
1st Lord Clifford
and Maud de Clare 7. The 2nd
3rd
and 4th Lords Clifford
Isobel Berkeley
and Euphamia Neville 8. Roger
5th Lord Clifford
and Maud Beauchamp 9. Thomas
6th Lord Clifford and Elizabeth Roos 10. John
7th Lord Clifford and Elizabeth Percy 11. Thomas
8th Lord Clifford and Joan Dacres 12. John
9th Lord Clifford 'The Butcher Lord' and Margaret Bromflete 13. Henry
10th Lord Clifford 'The Shepherd Lord'
Anne St. John
and Florence Pudsey 14. Henry
11th Lord Clifford and First Earl of Cumberland
Margaret Talbot
and Margaret Percy 15. Henry
12th Lord Clifford
Second Earl of Cumberland
Eleanor Brandon
and Margaret Dacre 16. George
13th Lord Clifford
Third Earl of Cumberland and Margaret Russell 17. Anne Clifford
Baroness Clifford
Countess Dowager of Dorset
Pembroke
and Montgomery 18. A Summary of the Records and a True Memoriall of the Life of Mee
the Lady Anne Clifford 19. Thomas Tufton
6th Earl of Thanet
and Baron Clifford Appendix: genealogical tables Glossary Bibliography Index