User:Biggsdl

My name is Douglas Biggs.

I have a Ph D in medieval English history from the University of Minnesota.

I have written extensively on the reigns of Richard II (1377-99) and Henry IV (1399-1413).

Monographs

2006	Three Armies in Britain: The Irish Campaign of Richard II and the Usurpation of Henry IV, 1399, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Edited books (all refereed)

2011	 The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt, with Linda Mitchell and Katherine French, Ashgate Publishing.

2008	Henry IV: Rebellion and Survival, 1403-1413, with Gwilym Dodd, York Medieval Press, 2008.

2004	Reputation and Representation: Essays in Late Medieval History, with S. Michalove and A.C. Reeves, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.

2003	 Henry IV: the Establishment of the Regime, 1399-1406 with Gwilym Dodd, York Medieval Press/Boydell and Brewer.

2002  Traditions and Transformations in Fifteenth Century England, with S. Michalove, and A. C. Reeves, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Articles (all refereed)

2012	“Kingship and Monarchy, 1066-1485,” Oxford Bibliographies Online (Oxford University Press).

2011   “Patronage, Preference and Survival: The Life of Lady Margaret Sarnesfield, c. 1380-1447,” in The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt.

2009  “’A Voyage or Rather and Expedition to Portugal:’ Edmund of Langley in Iberia 1381/82,” Journal of Medieval Military History 7 (2009), pp. 57-74.

2008	“The Lancastrian Sheriff? Henry IV and his Sheriffs; the Lancastrianization of County Government and the Problem of Good and Abundant Governance, 1399-1413,” Medieval Prosopography, 25 (2008 for 2004), pp. 163-80. (solicited).

2008	“An Ill and Infirm King: Henry IV and the Parliament of 1407,” in Henry IV: Rebellion and Survival, 1403-1413, ed. D. Biggs and G. Dodd (Woodbridge).

2007	“Archbishop Scrope’s Manifesto of 1405: ‘Naïve Nonsense’ or Reflections of Political Realty?” Journal of Medieval History, 33 (2007), pp. 1-14.

2004  “Royal Charter Witness Lists of Henry IV, 1399-1413,” English Historical Review, CXIX (2004), pp. 401-17.

2003	 “The Politics of Health: Henry IV and the Long Parliament of 1406,” in Henry IV: the Establishment of the Regime, 1399-1406 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2003), pp. 185-205.

2002	“To Aid the Custodian and Council: Edmund of Langley and the Defense of the Realm, June-July 1399,” Journal of Medieval Military History, I (2002), pp. 125-144. (solicited).

2002	“Henry IV and his Justices of the Peace: the Lancastrianization of Justice, 1399-1413,” in Traditions and Transformations in Fifteenth Century England ed. D. L. Biggs, S. Michalove, A. C. Reeves, (Brill, 2002), pp. 69-81.

2000	“The Reign of Henry IV: the Revolution of 1399 and the Establishment of the Lancastrian Regime,” in Fourteenth Century Studies ed. Nigel Saul (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 195-210. (solicited).

2000	“The Appellant and the Clerk; the Assault on Richard II’s Friends in Government, 1387-89,” in The Reign of Richard II: Politics, Personalities and Perceptions, ed. G. Dodd (Stroud, Gloucester: Tempus Press, 2000), pp. 57-70. (solicited).

1999	“The Plantagenet Revolution in Government? The Officers of Central Government and the Lancastrian Usurpation of 1399,” Medieval Prosopography, 20 (1999), pp. 191-212. (solicited). 1997	“The Trinity Guild of Coventry and the Royal Affinity, 1392-1413” Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, XVII (for 1995/6), pp. 91-113.

1996	“Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace: The Patterns of Lancastrian Governance, 1399-1402” Nottingham Medieval Studies, XL (1996), pp. 149-166.

1994	 “A Wrong Whom Conscience and Kindred Bid Me to Right: A Reassessment of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York and the Usurpation of Henry IV” Albion, 26, pp. 231-246.

Book Chapters

2004	 Book chapter: “The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453,” in Events that Changed Great Britain Before 1714, ed. F. Thackeray and J. Findling, (London: Greenwood Press 2004), pp. 42-75 (solicited).

Short articles

2002	 “Henry IV,” “The Exchequer,” “The Chancery,” “Edmund of Langley,” “The Unlearned Parliament,” “The Earls’ Rebellion,” “The Free Companies”, in Dictionary of Medieval England, ed. Ron Fritzie (London: Greenwood, 2002). (solicited)

I have also done some published work on the local history of my hometown, Ames, Iowa.

2012 	Article: “Forging a Community with Rails: Ames, Iowa Agricultural College and the Ames&College Railway, 1890-1896,” The Annals of Iowa, 71 (2012), pp. 111-140.