Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University‬ (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
Fergal Leonard
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Recent purchase at a second-hand bookshop based mostly on how fantastic the cover art is--although I have heard a little about the strange and tumultuous careers of the Shirleys, so I'm sure it'll be an interesting read!
A particularly stark example of iconoclast damage: the tomb of Jan van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht from 1342 to 1364, damaged in 1580, in Domkerk, Utrecht.
The warfare of the Dutch revolt offered opportunities for the skilled horsemen of the 'riding surnames'.
One was the infamous Redesdale murderer George Hall, who fled and was outlawed but allowed to return home at the request of Sir Philip Sidney, "w[ith] whome he s[er]ued in the Lowe cuntries".
I don't know enough about how English expeditionary forces were recruited, what other routes would have been open to borderers to find employment in these wars, and whether they might have served as companies of light horsemen as they had in Henry's continental expeditions a generation before...
At the Bourse in sixteenth-century Antwerp you could enter a sweepstake for the Papal election, where you were assigned a random cardinal and won the pot if they were chosen!
(Geoffrey Parker, The Dutch Revolt).
