Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.36 - Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
from Fifteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
Duke Humfrey, a younger son of king Henry IV and younger brother of king Henry V, is famous for the library he donated to the University of Oxford and whose name was given to the room above the Divinity School built to house his books. In this everyday document, another CLose Roll, one finds a list of the furniture granted to him by his father when as a young man he was moving to Hadleigh Castle in Essex. This list of armour and domestic items is fascinating for the richly multilingual vocabulary with classical words mixing with late Latin, and with terms derived from Greek and French and English. Some of these words are morphologically integrated into Latin, others are left unintegrated giving a feel of code-switching.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 327 - 329Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024