Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chronology
INTRODUCTION: The medieval English nobility and the Wheel of Fortune
1. BLACK BOOKS: Many roads to perdition
2. AT HIS MAJESTY’S PLEASURE: Punishment, execution and degradation
of wayward nobles
3. THE HARDER THEY COME: Estate seizure in the later middle ages
4. LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS: The English noble in disgrace
5. RETURNING TO FAVOUR: The search for redemption
CONCLUSION: The medieval aristocrat, ‘Wheels of Fortune’ and ‘Falls of
Princes’
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

About the Author

J. S. Bothwell is Lecturer in Later Medieval English History at the University of Leicester

Reviews

""Falling from Grace" is an innovative and illuminating study, providing a new dimension to our understanding of the mentalities of the medieval nobility. Investigating the neglected concept of secular sin and redemption in the Middle Ages, it ranges widely over the theme of noble disgrace from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses. Bothwell has drawn together an imaginative range of sources and themes in political and cultural history to create a book of considerable significance and lasting worth." --Professor Mark Ormrod, University of York