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Examine the role of the knight in medieval society.
Was the rise of the Gentry the most significant social change of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ?
"Feudalism was everywhere and in every way in decline." Can this judgment be applied to developments in England by 1400 ?
'From status to contract'. Examine the role of the 100 Years War in the emergence of Bastard Feudalism.
Examine the social and political importance of the development of an hereditary peerage in fourteenth century England.
What evidence is there that the English aristocracy underwent a major economic and political crisis in the period 1350-1450?
Were the members of the English Aristocracy in the period 1350-1485 in serious economic difficulties, and, if so, for what reasons ?
"He had all the noble virtues that a knight ought to have. He was merry, true, amorous, sage, secret, large (generous), prewe (gallant), hardy, adventurous and chivalrous." How far did the later medieval nobility depart from Froissart's ideal ?
If you had been a large landowner in the period 1330 to 1380 what policies would you have pursued in managing your estates, and why ?
Would it be more valid to apply the term 'the Golden Age of Chivalry' to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries rather than to the twelfth and thirteenth ?
Consider the constitutional implications of Bastard Feudalism.
Why did English become the vernacular language of the upper classes by the early fifteenth century ?
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School of History and Welsh History - University of Wales Bangor