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  • Record Number: 46844
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Powell , Susan
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  • Title: Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort
  • Source: The Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509): From the Archives of St John's College, Cambridge  Edited by Susan Powell. Records of Social and Economic History, New series 63.  Oxford University Press - Published for the British Academy, 2022.  Pages 85 - 646.
  • Description: This edition of household records is accompanied by a glossary which provides translations or explanations for many of the words used in the English accounts. Example: "barbbe n. female covering for the chin and chest" (p. 653)
  • Article Type: Edition of Text
  • Subject (See Also): Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby Daily Life Economics Households- Accounts Material Culture Noble Women
  • Award Note: Feminae Translation of the Month, October 2023
  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 15- 16
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  • Abstract: "Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) was the mother of Henry Tudor (1457-1509) by her first husband, Edmund Tudor, who died before his son was born. A strong and determined woman, after many vicissitudes she was instrumental in the overthrow of Richard III and the accession of her son to the throne after the Battle of Bosworth (1485). The documents edited here are the principal household accounts, extant in St John's College, Cambridge, for the period 1498-1509, during which she ran her own household, variously at Collyweston, Croydon and Hatfield, independent of her third husband, Thomas Stanley, earl of Derby. The accounts record the economy and management of the household at the height of Lady Margaret's power, wealth, and influence and offer unique evidence of both the household and Lady Margaret herself. [Reproduced from the publisher's website: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-household-accounts-of-lady-margaret-beaufort-1443-1509-9780197267042?cc=us&lang=en&]
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  • Author's Affiliation: Emeritus Professor, University of Salford
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  • Year of Publication: 2022.
  • Language: English, Latin
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780197267042 (print)