Martyrs in the Making
Political Martyrdom in Late Medieval England
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Introduction
In Dives and Pauper, a Middle English moral treatise written between 1405 and 1410, the figure of Dives inquires, while discussing the First Commandment: ‘Why are there no martyrs these days, as there used to be?...
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Conclusion
Difficult as it is to make sense of political deaths and their significance to contemporaries, attempting to identify the multiple elements essential to the creation of a political cult is even harder: no sing...
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Thomas, Earl of Lancaster: Christ’s Knight
Thomas Plantagenet was believed by his contemporaries to have been the ‘noblest of Christians, as well as the wealthiest earl in the world’.1 Despite being the richest, most powerful English magnate of his day, h...
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King Henry VI: Glory of Innocence
Henry VI, King of England and France, met his death at the Tower of London, probably on the night of 21–22 May 1471. Several questions about his death remain to be convincingly answered: Who was his killer? Ho...
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Map** Martyrdom
What were late medieval English people thinking of when they used the word ‘martyrdom’? This question will guide me in the exploration of ideas and images held by men and women, merchants and gentry, nobility ...
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Archbishop Richard Scrope: Shepherd of the People
The good relations maintained by the Archbishop of York, Richard Scrope, with King Henry IV in 1399 and 1400 could hardly have foretold the events which were to unfold a few years later, when on 8 June, 1405, ...
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‘A Death Worth a Martyr’s Crown’: Other Martyrs and Their Cults
The three cults which we have encountered were not the only manifestation of ‘holy’ death in the course of late medieval English politics. Various responses to murder, execution, or defeat in battle existed, r...
