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In Joan’s company I included both real and fictional characters – Lewis Clifford, John Holand (one of her children by her first husband) and, of course, Geoffrey Chaucer are all historic figures, as well as Alexander Neville, who is on everyone’s minds but never appears. The others are fictional characters.
I’ll end with a lovely quote about my friend John Thoresby from Fasti Eboracenses (p. 449):
‘John de Thoresby was one of those great and good men who were the glory of the fourteenth century. That was indeed, in every respect, an illustrious age. Whilst the chivalry of England was winning renown in the wars in France, every liberal art was being fostered and cherished at home, and John de Thoresby stood in the front rank of that band of worthies who signalised themselves by their taste and learning. It is with a feeling almost akin to veneration that I look back upon his many services to his country, his pious zeal and his open-handed munificence.’
Further Reading
Davies, Richard G. ‘Alexander Neville, Archbishop of York, 1374–1388’ in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 47(1975), pp. 87–101.
Dixon, W. H., Fasti Eboracenses: lives of the archbishops of York, ed. J. Raine (1863), pp. 449–494.
Dobson, R. B., ‘The Authority of the Bishop in Late Medieval England: The Case of Archbishop Alexander Neville of York, 1374–88,’ in Church and Society in the Medieval North of England, (1996), pp. 185–193.
Dobson, R. B., ‘Beverley in Conflict: Archbishop Alexander Neville and the Minster Clergy, 1381–8’ in Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in the East Riding of Yorkshire, ed. C. Wilson (1989), pp. 149–164.
Highfield, J. R. L., ‘The Promotion of William of Wickham to the See of Winchester,’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 4(1953), pp. 37–54.
Wentersdorf, Karl P., ‘The clandestine marriages of the Fair Maid of Kent,’ Journal of Medieval History, 5(1979), pp. 203–231.
A recent accessible overview of the period is Miri Rubin’s The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages, Penguin Books, 2005.
The citation from the Rule of St Benedict in the prologue is from the recent translation by Patrick Barry, OSB, in Benedict’s Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict, edited by Patrick Henry, Riverhead Books, 2001.
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