Resources for Study

On this page there are links to a wide range of articles and talks relating to the Mortimers and the Welsh Marcher Lordships. The links on the right can also be found on other pages of this website, but they are all repeated here for convenience.

Below these are links to several more articles and talks. Although these do not relate specifically to the Mortimers or to Marcher Lordships, they are illustrative of various aspects of medieval life.

∇   this symbol indicates longer or more-significant articles

Bibliography of books and articles
not on this website ☛☛
Articles and talks about the Mortimers ☛☛
Articles and talks on Marcher Lordships ☛☛

Articles and talks about he Mortimers’ involvement
in the Marches are duplicated in both of the lists above

MHS Lectures Online ☛☛
Articles in the MHS Journal ☛☛

All these articles and talks are also listed in the
Mortimers and Marcher Lordships sections above

People and Politics in England
∇   The Anglo-Norman Aristocracy 1066-1215 ☛☛
An article based on a talk by Prof. Daniel Power – in Mortimer Matters 22
∇   Castles and Rebellion in Anglo-Norman England ☛☛
A Summary of a talk by Prof. Matthew Strickland – in Mortimer Matters 31
∇   King John and William Marshal ☛☛
An article based on a talk by Elizabeth Chadwick – in Mortimer Matters 22
∇   The Rupture of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy after the fall of ducal
Normandy in 1204
An online lecture by Prof. Daniel Power – link available to members on application to the Secretary
∇   The Magna Carta Project ☛☛
An article based on a lecture by Prof. David Carpenter – in Mortimer Matters 22
∇   Henry III: the Captive King 1264-1265 ☛☛
A lecture by Prof. David Carpenter
∇   The Leopard Prince: Lord Edward in the 2nd Barons’ War ☛☛
A lecture by Dr Andrew Spencer
∇   A Rebel Princess: Eleanor de Montfort and the 2nd Barons’ War ☛☛
A lecture by Prof. Louise Wilkinson
∇   Women and Power in the Middle Ages ☛☛
Joanna Laynesmith – in Mortimer Matters 45
∇   Women and the Law in the Age of Magna Carta ☛☛
The full text of a talk by Dr Matthew Stevens
∇   The Marriage of Edward II and Queen Isabella: a reconsideration ☛☛
Kathryn Warner – in Mortimer Matters 32
∇   The Extortions of Hugh Despenser the Younger (ex.1326) ☛☛
Kathryn Warner – this article is only available in Vol.2 of the MHS Journal
∇   The Marriage of David Bruce and Joan of the Tower 1328 ☛☛
Ethan Gould- in Mortimer Matters 31
∇   Edward III and a Plantagenet Apanage Policy ☛☛
A lecture by Dr David Green
∇   Married Women, Wills & the Consistory Court of Hereford c1400-1520 ☛☛
Dr Cordelia Beattie – on online lecture
Edward I’s Regent – Edmund, Earl of Cornwall ☛☛
Michael Ray – in Mortimer Matters 49
Elizabeth de Burgh, daughter of Gilbert de Clare ☛☛
Kirsten Lawton-Smith – in Mortimer Matters 50
John of Gaunt ☛☛
Kathryn Warner – in Mortimer Matters 48
Adam of Usk? ☛☛
John Grove – in Mortimer Matters 37
Who killed Richard III? ☛☛
Ruth Richardson – in Mortimer Matters 37
The Earldom of Arundel ☛☛
Peter Crocker – in Mortimer Matters 26
The Uses and Abuses of Wardship from Edward III to Henry IV ☛☛
Connor Williams – in Mortimer Matters 43
Ireland
∇   Society and Kinship in pre-Norman Ireland ☛☛
Ed Walker
∇   The Lacys and the Conquest of Ireland ☛☛
Summary of a talk by Dr Colin Veach
Irish Immigration to England 1330-1550 ☛☛
Summary of a talk by Dr Jessica Lutkin
Castles
∇   The priest and knight may come in”, who else populated the medieval castle? ☛☛
Dr Pamela Marshall FSA – an online lecture
∇   How to Build a Castle: Fundamentals ☛☛
Dr Malcolm Hislop – an online lecture
∇   The Norman Castle at Ludlow, c. 1085- c. 1177: Design and Context ☛☛
Prof Matt Strickland – an online lecture
∇   Ludlow Castle and its domestic developments
from the late thirteenth century ☛☛
Dr John Kenyon – an online lecture
Horses and Tournaments
∇   Destrier and Courser: Horse Studs in Medieval England ☛☛
Prof. Robert Liddiard – in Mortimer Matters 40
Horses in the Medieval Military ☛☛
Lindsay Smith – in Mortimer Matters 40
The Tourneying Society of the Middle Ages ☛☛
Report on a talk by Prof. David Crouch – in Mortimer Matters 27
Ecclesiastical
∇   Decorated in Glory:
Church Building in Herefordshire in the 14th Cent. ☛☛
Prof. Nigel Saul – an online lecture
∇   The Iconography of England’s two St Thomases in Herefordshire ☛☛
Dr Ian Bass – an online lecture
∇   Sins, Saints and Salvation: Medieval Wall Painting in Daily Life ☛☛
Dr Tanya Heath – an online lecture
Some Medieval Pilgrims to Santiago de Compostella ☛☛
John Hopkins – in Mortimer Matters 38
Little Malvern Priory: Querying the Guide Book ☛☛
Noriko Horiuchi – in Mortimer Matters 37
Church Chests ☛☛
Rachel Sycamore – in Mortimer Matters 47
General
The joys of medieval sex ☛☛
Kathryn Warner – in Mortimer Matters 50
Childhood in Medieval England  ☛☛
Nicholas Orme – in Mortimer Matters 52