Anthony Musson & Nigel Ramsay 
Courts of Chivalry and Admiralty in Late Medieval Europe [PDF ebook] 

A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal institutions of the Middle Ages.


The wars waged by the English in France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries led to the need for judicial agencies which could deal with disputes that arose on land and sea, beyond the reach of indigenous laws. This led to the jurisdictional development of the Courts of Chivalry and Admiralty, presiding over respectively heraldic and maritime disputes. They were thus of considerable importance in the Middle Ages; but they have attracted comparatively little scholarly attention.

The essays here examine their officers, proceedings and the wider cultural and political context in which they had jurisdiction and operated in later medieval Western Europe. They reveal similarities in personnel, institutions and outlook, as well as in the issues confronting rulers in territories across Europe. They also demonstrate how assertions of sovereignty and challenges to judicial competence were inextricably linked to complex political agendas; and that both military and maritime law were international in reach because they were underpinned by trans-national customs and the principles and procedures of Continental civil law. Combininglaw with military and maritime history, and discussing the art and material culture of chivalric disputes as well as their associated heraldry, the volume provides fresh new insights into an important area of medieval life and culture.


ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces; NIGEL RAMSAY is Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Department of History at University College London.


Contributors: Andrew Ayton, Richard Barber, John Ford, Laurent Hablot, Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm, Julian Luxford, Ralph Moffat, Philip Morgan, Bertrand Schnerb, Anne F. Sutton, Lorenzo Tanzini.

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Introduction — Anthony Musson and Nigel Ramsay

Heralds and the Court of Chivalry: From Collective Memory to Formal Institutions — Richard Barber

French Armorial Disputes and Controls — Laurent Hablot

Art, Objects and Ideas in the Records of the Medieval Court of Chivalry — Julian Luxford

Sir Robert Grosvenor and the Scrope-Grosvenor Controversy — Philip Morgan

From Brittany to the Black Sea: Nicholas Sabraham and English Military Experience in the Fourteenth Century — Andrew Ayton

‘Armed and redy to come to the felde’: Arming for the Judicial Duel in Fifteenth-Century England — Ralph Moffat

The Jurisdiction of the Constable and Marshals of France in the Later Middle Ages — Bertrand Schnerb

The Origins and Jurisdiction of the English Court of Admiralty in the Fourteenth Century — Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm

The
Consulate of the Sea and its Fortunes in Late Medieval Mediterranean Countries — Lorenzo Tanzini

The Admiralty and Constableship of England in the Later Fifteenth Century. The Operation and Development of these Offices, 1462-85, Under Richard, Duke of Gloucester and King of England — Anne F. Sutton

Some Dubious Beliefs about Medieval Prize Law — John D Ford

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RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.