England in the Reign of Edward III.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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Book Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.
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Author Information:
- Scott L. Waugh (b. 1949), Wikipedia.
- Scott Waugh, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
Wikipedia Articles, In Our Time, etc.:
- England in the Late Middle Ages, from the Thirteenth Century, the end of the Angevins, and the accession of Henry III until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485. ~~~~~~~~~~
- Economy of England in the Middle Ages.
- Feudalism in England.
- Bastard feudalism, a Nineteenth Century historian's description of English feudalism as it decayed in the Late Middle Ages.
- Medieval English wool trade. ~~~~~~~~~~
- 1310s in England.
- 1320s in England.
- 1330s in England.
- 1340s in England.
- 1350s in England.
- 1360s in England.
- 1370s in England.
- 1380s in England. ~~~~~~~~~~
- Crisis of the Late Middle Ages (famine, plague, social unrest).
- Great Famine of 1315–1317.
- Black Death, peak years 1347–1351.
- Black Death in England, reached England in June 1348;
recurred in England 1361−1362 ("Second Pestilence" or "Pestilence of the Children"),
1369, 1375, 1471, 1479–1480, 1603-1611, 1665–1666.
(Second plague pandemic.) - Consequences of the Black Death.
- Statute of Labourers 1351.
- Deserted medieval village.
- Melvyn Bragg, Miri Rubin, Samuel Cohn, Paul Binski, "The Black Death," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 22 May 2008.
- Richard Evans, "The Great Plagues: The Black Death," Gresham College, 25 September 2012. ~~~~~~~~~~
- Edward III of England (1312–1377), King of England 1327–1377.
- Philippa of Hainault (c.1310/1315–1369), wife of Edward III; Queen consort of England 1328–1369.
- Alice Perrers (1348–1400).
- Edward the Black Prince (1330–1376), Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; eldest son of Edward III; father of Richard II.
- Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338–1368), second son of Edward III; the House of York descended from Lionel and his brother Edmund.
- John of Gaunt (1340–1399), Duke of Lancaster; third son of Edward III; the House of Lancaster descended from John of Gaunt.
- Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), fourth son of Edward III; ; the House of York descended from Edmund and his brother Lionel.
- Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355–1397), fifth son of Edward III.
- Blanche of Lancaster (1342–1368), daughter of Henry of Grosmont; first wife of John of Gaunt; mother of Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV of England).
- Katherine Swynford (c.1350–1403), third wife of John of Gaunt; mother of children with John of Gaunt who would become the House of Beaufort. ~~~~~~~~~~
- William de la Pole (d. 1366), wool merchant, financier, royal moneylender, Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1339–13##.
- Reginald de Cobham (c.1295–1361), Knight.
- John Chandos (c.1320–1369), Knight. ~~~~~~~~~~
- Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453.
Major phases:- the Edwardian War, 1337–1360.
- the Caroline War, 1369–1389.
- the Lancastrian War, 1415–1453.
- Battle of Sluys, 24 June 1340.
- Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346.
- Siege of Calais (1346–1347).
- Battle of Poitiers, 19 September 1356.
- Treaty of Brétigny, drafted at Brétigny on 8 May 1360, ratified on 24 October 1360 as the Treaty of Calais. ~~~~~~~~~~
- Peasants' Revolt, 1381, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising.
- Melvyn Bragg, Miri Rubin, Caroline Barron, Alastair Dunn, "The Peasants' Revolt," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2006. ~~~~~~~~~~
- John Gower (c.1330–1408).
- William Langland (c.1332–c.1386). Piers Plowman, c.1370–1390.
Piers Plowman tradition. - Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400), courtier, diplomat, bureaucrat, poet.
- The Book of the Duchess, composed 1368 to early-1370s.
- Troilus and Criseyde, composed mid-1380s.
- The Canterbury Tales, composed late-1380s to 1400.
- Melvyn Bragg, Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Ardis Butterfield, "Chaucer," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 9 Feb 2006.
- Gawain Poet (Fourteenth Century).
- Melvyn Bragg, Laura Ashe, Ad Putter, Simon Armitage, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 13 Dec 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
- John Wycliffe (1320s–1384).
Wycliffe's Bible, 1382–1395. - Lollardy, the Lollard movement, mid-Fourteenth Century.
- Melvyn Bragg, Anthony Kenny, Anne Hudson, Rob Lutton, "Wyclif and the Lollards," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Jun 2011.
- The Lollard Society.