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1450. 9 January – Adam Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester (murdered) 2 May – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, military leader (born 1396; murdered) 10 June – William Tresham, lawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1404; murdered) 4 July – James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele, soldier and politician (born c. 1395; murdered)
Surviving sources indicate that there was a rich and varied musical soundscape in medieval Britain. [1] Historians usually distinguish between ecclesiastical music, designed for use in church, or in religious ceremonies, and secular music for use from royal and baronial courts, celebrations of some religious events, to public and private entertainments of the people. [1]
Music in Medieval England. Music in Medieval England, from the end of Roman rule in the fifth century until the Reformation in the sixteenth century, was a diverse and rich culture, including sacred and secular music and ranging from the popular to the elite. The sources of English secular music are much more limited than for ecclesiastical music.
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The history of England during the Late Middle Ages covers from the thirteenth century, the end of the Angevins, and the accession of Henry II – considered by many to mark the start of the Plantagenet dynasty – until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485, which is often taken as the most convenient marker for the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the English ...
The Great Slump occurred in England between approximately 1440 and 1480. [1] The economic decline began in the 1430s in Northern England, spreading south in the 1440s, with the economy not recovering until the 1480s. [2] The Great Slump took place against a wider trading crisis in Northern Europe, driven by shortages of silver, essential for ...
Earl of Warwick (1088) Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick and. Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. 1448. 1449. 1492. 1471. Earl of Arundel (1138) William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel.
Scottish folk music includes many kinds of songs, including ballads and laments, sung by a single singer with accompaniment by bagpipes, fiddles or harps. Traditional dances include waltzes, reels, strathspeys and jigs. Alongside the other areas of the United Kingdom, Scotland underwent a roots revival in the 1960s.