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William Boyd Carpenter — , Bishop of Ripon in the Church of England , afterwards a Canon of Westminster and Chaplain to the reigning sovereign of England, wrote in a letter dated 7 August that his family bore the Hereford Arms. Sir Noel Paton , upon painting the Family Arms, informed him that the supporters were originally a round-handled sword, which in drawing over time became shortened, until nothing but the cross and globe were left beneath it.

The Visitations describe the arms of Richard Carpenter theologian as: It provided a basis of legal, social and history of the law relating to the City of London. The following lines [17] were hand written probably in the 16th century on the fly-leaf of "Liber Albus" translated from Latin:.

At one point, John Carpenter reportedly owned over tenements. He had a fish pond, doubling as a reservoir, on top of his own house.

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Most of these properties he later willed to his brother. Peter, Cornhill, London, England. John Carpenter's will was made in his 70th year, dated 8 March and proved 12 May This indicates he was born about and that his death may have been some time in April He was buried in the Abbey of St. Bequest for the betterment of poor children: John Carpenter left property to the City of London later known as the Corporation of London to provide "Carpenter's Children" as they became known to assist at divine service in the choir of the Guildhall chapel on festival days.

That continued for almost years until an Act of Parliament permitted the combining of several accounts to establish the City of London School. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see John Carpenter disambiguation. Statue of John Carpenter which stands in a prominent position on a plinth high up on the wall of the City of London School 's glassed ceiling atrium standing over the door to the balcony of the Great Hall. In this position 'He' also 'sees' the full splendour of St.

Middle Ages portal History portal Biography portal. This book contains the will of John Carpenter and his wife Katherine along with sections of Thomas Brewer's work on John Carpenter. For more details see Jenkin. Oxford, England; 2nd Edition. John the younger, the subject of the article is listed as RIN Feodum decem libr' concess' Joh'i Marchaunt ad terminum vite. Dec - ', Calendar of letter-books of the city of London: See Footnote 7, British-history.

By he had an outline of what he wished to say, but he was captured by the Germans in and was imprisoned for the next five years where amazingly he wrote the first draft of The Mediterranean totally from memory. The Mediterranean focuses on the history of one world region in a wide-ranging intellectual breakthrough, involving the geographic setting, transport and communications, urban and hinterland developments, trade, empires and more political themes. In his mentor, Lucien Febvre, asked Braudel, who was then teaching at the College of Paris, to contribute a volume to a series on world history.

Febvre died before he could complete his volume.

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Braudel took responsibility for preparation of what became a three-volume series and was sole editor of the Annales during its most influential period. Braudel published the first volume of Civilization and Capitalism in , and it was translated as Capitalism and Material Life, in The Limits of the Possible , was published in That translation followed the form of the original translation, Capitalism and Material Life, — , incorporating new materials and changes.

Their journal, Review , begun in , explores a variety of issues relating to the evolution of capitalism, and the study of world systems, about which more below. The Fernand Braudel Institute in Sao Paulo is a think tank that has a strong social dimension to its studies. The economic history emerging from these centers is likely to emphasize the impact of capitalism on the social structures of society and the dependencies involved in the evolution of a worldwide economy over the past five hundred years.

Braudel emphasizes that capitalism is something different from the market economy, a distinction that should be kept in mind in understanding Civilization and Capitalism. The triptych I have described—material life, the market economy, and the capitalist economy—is still an amazingly valid explanation, even though capitalism today has expanded in scope. It is a structure of thinking that is rather alien to trends in economic research that seek to explain the behavior of households, markets and business firms using similar economic models, a point discussed further below.

For Wallerstein capitalism is a system built upon the international division of labor in which the core of the resulting world system prospers, if not at the expense of the others, at least relative to others. A familiar enough theme from the recent Seattle World Trade Organization protests. While Wallerstein took inspiration from Braudel, this is not what Braudel means by capitalism.

Braudel viewed the capitalist economy as in the above paragraph, namely as something above everyday material life and the operation of markets. Capitalism takes advantage of high profit opportunities generated by linking markets into a world economy. For Braudel a world economy features a core capitalist city whose commercial and financial spread may be well beyond national political boundaries. However, for Braudel there may be several world economies operating at the same time, and for each there will be a dominant core city.

Capitalism may utilize an international or larger spatial division of labor but the hegemony of any particular core city for a world economy will wax and wane over time. Further, Wallerstein treats the political empires like Rome, the Ottomans or the Mughals as non-capitalist systems while Braudel would be inclined to see in them some capitalistic features.

One further point on capitalism concerns its origins. Wallerstein seeks the origins of the capitalist world system in the feudal breakdown of the agrarian society of Northern Europe in the sixteenth century. Braudel is less concerned with questions of origins, but would certainly place a European world economy much earlier, perhaps in fourteenth-century Italy. Again, his first line of attack would be to point to all of the developments in the Italian city states that long pre-dated Luther and Calvin. One point deserves further mention, namely the emphasis that Braudel gives to the ebb and flow of world economies over time and space.

Schumpeter saw new innovations involving new entrepreneurs replacing older businesses along with their technologies and labor force. For Braudel the slowly shifting boundaries of world economies have two important implications. First, some areas never become involved with a world economy and their economic level remains very low. And second, some areas that were in a world economy, and were perhaps a core city, lose their place as boundaries of world economies change over time.

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Braudel and the Annales School represented a reaction to traditional narrative history with its emphasis on major actors, usually political or economic elites. However, in Volume I the chapter headings at that time were themselves a statement, beginning at the lowest level of economic and social organization. Braudel begins Volume I of Civilization and Capitalism with a discussion of world population during the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, including an evaluation of the reliability of the numbers and a description of the balance of peoples around the world.

Beginning his study with counting all of humanity, Braudel starts off with a global view, involving the rich and the poor, and all regions of the world. He takes on social classifications, like civilized and barbaric, providing an overview of global social divisions. Braudel follows population in Capitalism and Material Life with chapters on the major categories of consumer expenditure, bread and cereals, other foods and drink, and clothing and housing.

These chapters, enriched with appropriate illustrations, include the diets of the poor, food fashions of the rich, the lack of furnishings of the homes of the poor and middle classes, and the increasingly elaborate interiors of the more affluent. The treatment of fashion and necessity in clothing is wide ranging. While much of this is based on the research of others, it is an extraordinary synthesis of materials from many sources and it is good reading.

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The focus on everyday life in Capitalism and Material Life represents a concern shaping many areas of study after , a movement from the study of elites to those of more ordinary people. This entered archaeology, as excavations moved from the palaces and temples to remains of foods, bones, and the dwellings of the poor, or lack thereof.

The following quotation referring to Naples is in his chapter Towns and Cities, and is from one of several sketches of cities of the era. A major breakthrough after extended it in the direction of Borgo de Chiaja, facing the second bay of Naples the first being Marinella. Only the rich benefited, as authorization to build outside the walls, granted in , almost exclusively concerned them. As for the poor, their district stretched out from the vast Largo del Castello, where burlesque quarrels over the free distribution of victuals took place, to the Mercato, their fief, facing the Paludi plain that began outside the ramparts.

They were so crowded that their life encroached and overflowed on to the streets. Here in the midst of a description of impoverishment in Naples we also have imbedded an estimate of the homeless as 20 to 25 percent of society, a typical quantitative illustration that Braudel uses to great effect.

He also tells us that the rich have the political power to live in more desirable locations, nothing new there. It is not surprising that Marxist historians would find much to like in Braudel, but there is very little ideological in his writings. In fact, Braudel is much more interested in putting the everyday life of all peoples in perspective by comparisons of to and to contemporary levels of living.

But one senses from his discussions of material life that Braudel would have found these comfortable constructs with which to work. He also suggests that he would have liked to use cliometrics in the analysis of his period but that there were not adequate data. However, Braudel would have probably wanted to build up social and national accounts rather than deal with behavioral models. However, Braudel looks at money as an indicator of the degree of monetization of societies and the complexity of their economies.

The winner of the 'eisteddfod', or 'session', was to be seated in the bardic chair. Bards, poets, harpists and other music makers engaged in contests in pursuit of the seat of honour. Henry II and his wife Eleanor had five sons, who squabbled among themselves and with their parents about who would inherit which part of Henry's kingdom. When Henry died it was Richard later nicknamed 'Lionheart' for his bravery in battle the oldest surviving son, who became king of England.

The crusades and the state of his French territories preoccupied Richard, such that he spent less than a year of his year reign in England. Shortly after his accession, Richard left England to join the Third Crusade. He raised taxes, sold assets and emptied the treasury to raise funds for his army.

He took Cyprus and the town of Acre, but was stopped short of his ultimate goal of Jerusalem after Philip Augustus of France withdrew from the crusade. A massive ransom was paid, securing his release in early The fifth son of Henry II, John, stayed in England during Richard's crusading absences, where he schemed against his brother.

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Despite this, Richard forgave him and named John as his successor. In , a group of scholars migrated from the established centre of learning at Oxford to Cambridge, where they set up a new university. Social tensions and riots between townspeople and scholars were probably the key motivation for the move. The death of Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, in July initiated a dispute between the king and the monks of Canterbury over who should name his successor. The pope intervened and overruled John, sparking a series of tit-for-tat exchanges that resulted in John's excommunication in He later declared his kingdom a papal fief and was readmitted to the favour of the papacy.

Philip's victory was complete and allowed him to seize Normandy, Anjou and Brittany, among other possessions. John was forced to return to England to face the nobles whose lands he had lost. He also suffered the indignity of nicknames like 'lack land' and 'soft sword'. A rebellion by northern barons led to a meeting between John and their leaders at Runnymede on the River Thames. At the meeting, the Magna Carta or 'Great Charter' was signed. More significantly, it represents the first time that defined limitations to royal rights were established in written law.

The Magna Carta of did not prevent fighting between rebel barons and John. Initially the French force was very successful, but when John suddenly died in October and his nine-year-old son was hastily crowned Henry III, the barons reconsidered.

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The French withdrew in Henry came to the throne aged nine. At the time, a French force had invaded with the intention of unseating his father, John. With John dead, the rebellious barons who had encouraged French aid, saw the young king as the safer option. Many rejoined the royal cause and eventually the French were defeated at Lincoln in They withdrew with a large financial payment.

The Dominican order of friars had arrived in England in Just over five years later they began their ministry in Scotland. They later became associated with Scottish university towns. It has remained unaltered ever since, with the exception of the disputed town of Berwick.

Berwick alternated between English and Scottish control before its final capture by the English in The first abbey at Westminster was built by Edward the Confessor in the s in the Romanesque style. Henry III ordered the rebuilding of the abbey in a Gothic style, with a central shrine to honour Edward the Confessor. Henry was himself very religious, and focusing on a saintly predecessor sanctified his own kingship. Henry was eventually buried in Westminster Abbey. Henry III had made himself unpopular with the barons, who objected to the cost of his military campaigns and the influence of his foreign relatives and favourites.

In , de Montfort was one of a group of barons who imposed the Provisions of Oxford on the king. These created a council, selected by the barons, to advise Henry. In , Henry obtained a papal dispensation to extricate himself from the Provisions. Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Touraine and Poitou were given up in return for keeping control the Channel Islands and Gascony in the south west. Now in control of England, de Montfort summoned an assembly, including two knights from each county and two elected representatives of each borough - a precursor to parliament.

Later in , de Montfort was killed at the Battle of Evesham by the forces of Prince Edward, and royal authority was restored. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, a prince of Gwynedd, had defeated his brothers Owain and Dafydd in the s and completed the expansion begun by his grandfather, Llywelyn the Great. Since defeating and killing Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in , Edward had been a powerful influence on his father.

In , he left to fight in the crusades, but on hearing of his father's death he immediately returned to England. He was crowned in August The church owned a great deal of land, and the statute prevented it from acquiring more. Immortal institutions with their 'dead hand', or 'mortmain', did not pass on their estates and thus could not be taxed by the government.

Relations between the Welsh and the English crown had deteriorated. In , Llywelyn and his brother Dafydd rebelled against Edward, who defeated and killed them both. Edward built a network of castles in Wales to emphasise his power and authority. In , he made his eldest son, also Edward, prince of Wales, a title the eldest son of the English monarch continues to take to this day.

The bulk of the Jewish community in England had arrived from France in the 11th century and acted as bankers to the ruling and business classes. In an atmosphere of growing anti-semitism, Edward I turned against the Jews. In , he prohibited Jewish traders from lending on interest, depriving them of their primary means of earning a living. In , he imprisoned and ransomed 3, Jewish people. The ransom was paid, but in an edict was issued expelling all Jews from England.

This parliament, summoned by Edward I, has been compared to that of Simon de Montfort 30 years earlier. It included a broader range of members than was usual, extending beyond senior clergy and aristocracy to lower clergy, knights of the shire and representatives of towns.

Its main aim, for Edward, was to raise money for his wars against France, Scotland and Wales. In , a disputed succession to the Scottish throne allowed Edward I to force the Scots to accept his sovereignty as 'lord paramount' of Scotland. He then nominated John Balliol as king. The Scots objected to these terms and in turned to the French for help - the earliest documentary evidence of the 'Auld Alliance'. A Scottish army was raised, but it was defeated by Edward, who deposed Balliol and removed the Stone of Scone on which Scottish monarchs were crowned. William Wallace organised resistance to the English in Scotland in the late s, defeating them at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September He was himself defeated in July of the following year at Falkirk.

He continued a guerrilla campaign for a further seven years, but was eventually betrayed, taken to London and executed. In , Robert the Bruce was crowned king of Scotland in defiance of Edward I, who died while on his way north to reassert his authority. Edward II was very different from his father, more interested in entertainment than warfare and dependent upon favourites like Piers Gaveston. Two years after Edward's accession, he married Isabella, daughter of the French king.

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