C. A. J. Armstrong
John Armstrong | |
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| Born | 25 June 1909 Boars Hill, Oxfordshire |
| Known for | Lecturer, historian |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
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| Discipline | Medieval English History, Medieval Burgundy, the Wars of the Roses, the medieval nobility |
| Institutions | Hertford College, Oxford |
Charles Arthur John Armstrong (born 1909), known as John Armstrong,[1] was a leading post-war English historian, known for his studies of the First Battle of St Albans and the medieval Duchy of Burgundy.
Early life and discovery of the Mancini MS
Educated at
Edward V of England and the accession of his uncle, Richard III in the summer of 1483.[3] He presented a description of this in The Times the same year, and then proceeded to translate and transcribe the manuscript. Since described as 'a model of precise scholarship,'[1] it was published by the Oxford University Press as The Usurpation of Richard III in July 1936.[4]
Career
He joined Hertford College as a Tutor in Modern History the following year, and taught there for the next thirty years, eventually being elected a
Yorkist kings, to the First Battle of St Albans; his detailed analysis of the latter, according to Michael Hicks, can be considered 'the last word' on the subject.[6]
Personal life
He was married to another
Somerville College, Oxford, who herself wrote upon sixteenth-century France. He died on 9 August 1994 at the age of eighty-five.[2]
Selected bibliography
- The Usurpation of Richard the Third: Dominicus Mancinus ad Angelum Catonem de Occupatione Regni Anglie per Riccardum Tercium Libellus, Oxford University Press, 1936.
- 'Some examples of the distribution and the speed of news in England at the time of Wars of the Roses,' in Hunt, R.W., Pantin, W.A., Southern, R.W. (eds.), Studies in medieval history presented to Frederick Maurice Powicke, Oxford, 1948.
- ‘Politics and the Battle of St. Albans, 1455’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 1960.
- England, France and Burgundy in the fifteenth century, London, 1983.
- 'Some examples of the distribution and speed of news in England at the time of the Wars of the Roses,' Medieval History, 1991.
- 'Les ducs de Bourgogne, interprètes de la pensée politique du XVe siècle,' Annales de Bourgogne, 1995.
References
- ^ a b c d e "Obituary: John Armstrong". The Independent. 18 August 1994.
- ^ a b c d Allmand, C., 'C. A. J. Armstrong (1909–1994),' Renaissance Studies 9. (1995), 123–126
- ^ "Richard III réenterré : un manuscrit de 1483, conservé à Lille, raconte son coup d'état". France 3 Hauts-de-France. 24 March 2015.
- ^ "THE USURPATION OF RICHARD THE THIRD » 31 Jul 1936 » The Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive.
- ^ Hicks, M.A., 'Propaganda and the First Battle of St Albans', Nottingham Medieval Studies 44 (2000), 168
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