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The first twenty years (1377-97) of Richar II's reign was characterised by war and rebellion, show trials, scandalous royalty, horrible murders, attempts to solve the Irish question and the making of England's oldest alliance. This richly-documented period offers exceptional opportunities and challenges to students, and the editor has selected material from a wide range of sources: well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles, and legal, administrative and financial records. This book describes the complex domestic and international situation which confronted the young king, and offers guidance on the strengths and weaknesses of the reign's leading chronicles. Students of Richard II's reign are blessed with numerous written sources. This reign saw the last great flowering of medieval chronicle-writing.
The introduction describes the complex domestic and international situation which confronted the young king and offers guidance on the strengths and weaknesses of the reign's leading chronicles. During his fifty-year reign Edward III had restored the prestige and glamour of crown and court at home and abroad, defeated the Scots and humiliated the French. Students of Richard II's reign are blessed with numerous written sources. This reign saw the last great flowering of medieval chronicle-writing. Historians have abundant material for the early years of the reign, but from 1394 the position is problematic: much of Thomas Walsingham's account was written after Richard's deposition, and the chronicles by Henry Knighton and the Monk of Westminster finish about then.
This prologue presents translated and annotated sources on the topic of the end of Edward III's reign (1376–77).
This chapter presents translated and annotated sources on the theme of Richard II's minority reign during the period 1377 to 1381.
This chapter presents translated and annotated sources on the theme of Richard II's struggle for power during the period 1382–87.
This chapter presents translated and annotated sources on the theme of the rule and fall of the Appellants during the reign of Richard II , 1388–89.
This chapter presents translated and annotated sources on the theme of appeasement and tyranny during the reign of Richard II, 1389–97.