Courts of Chivalry and Admiralty in Late Medieval Europe

List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xi
A Note on Editorial Practice xii
List of Abbreviations xiii
Introduction / Anthony Musson and Nigel Ramsay 1
1. Heralds and the Court of Chivalry: From Collective Memory to Formal Institutions / Richard Barber 15
2. French Armorial Disputes and Controls / Laurent Hablot 29
3. Art, Objects and Ideas in the Records of the Medieval Court of Chivalry / Julian Luxford 47
4. Sir Robert Grosvenor and the Scrope–Grosvenor Controversy / Philip Morgan 75
5. From Brittany to the Black Sea: Nicholas Sabraham and English Military Experience in the Fourteenth Century / Andrew Ayton 95
6. \"Armed and redy to come to the felde\": Arming for the Judicial Duel in Fifteenth-Century England / Ralph Moffat 121
7. The Jurisdiction of the Constable and Marshals of France in the Later Middle Ages / Bertrand Schnerb 135
8. The Origins and Jurisdiction of the English Court of Admiralty in the Fourteenth Century / Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm 149
9. The Consulate of the Sea and its Fortunes in Late Medieval Mediterranean Countries / Lorenzo Tanzini 171
10. 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 187
11. Some Dubious Beliefs about Medieval Prize Law / John Ford 215
Index 237