Table of Contents

Introduction: Political Culture, Politics and Cultural History - Christine Carpenter Remembering Richard: History and Memory in Lancastrian England - Simon Walker Early Plantagenet History through Late Medieval Eyes - Maurice H Keen Common Law, Counsel and Consent in Fortescue's Political Theory - Alan D T Cromartie Prelates and Politics from Winchesley to Warham - Benjamin Thompson Religious Symbols and Political Culture in Fifteenth-Century England - Miri Rubin The Political Culture of Medieval London - Caroline M. Barron The Political Life of the Fifteenth-Century English Village - Christopher Dyer The Pressure of the Public on Later Medieval Politics - John L Watts National Pride, Decentralised Nation: the Political Culture of Fifteenth-Century Scotland - Jenny Wormald

About the Author

LINDA CLARK is Editor Emeritus at the History of Parliament. Caroline M. Barron is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway, University of London. Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He has written, edited, co-authored and co-edited many books, including William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (Boydell, 2009).

Reviews

This is not a book which fifteenth-century historians can neglect; but some of the essays should be required reading for students of the sixteenth. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *