Publications – The Fifteenth Century

The following series is published by Boydell & Brewer, and can be purchased via their website:

I
Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages
ed. Anne Curry and Elizabeth Matthew (2000)

P.J.P. Goldberg:  What was a Servant?
Chris Given-Wilson:  Service, Serfdom and English Labour Legislation, 1350–1500
Virginia Davis:  Preparation for Service in the Late Medieval Church
Jeremy Catto:  Masters, Patrons and Careers of Graduates in Fifteenth-Century England
David Morgan:  The Household Retinue of Henry V and the Ethos of English Public Life
R.A. Griffiths:  ‘Ffor the myght off the lande, aftir the myght off the grete lordes thereoff, stondith most in the kynges officers’: the English Crown, Provinces and Dominions in the Fifteenth Century
Kathleen Daly:  Private Vice, Public Service? Civil Service and chose publique in Fifteenth-Century France
Michael Jones:  The Material Rewards of Service in Late Medieval Brittany: Ducal Servants and their Residences
Alexander Grant:  Service and Tenure in Late Medieval Scotland, 1314–1475

II
Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England
ed. Michael Hicks (2001)

Christopher Woolgar:  Fast and Fast: Conspicuous Consumption and the Diet of the Nobility in the Fifteenth Century
Alastair Dunn:  Exploitation and Control: The Royal Administration of Magnate Estates, 1397–1405
Shelagh M. Mitchell:  The Knightly Household of Richard II and the Peace Commissions
Alison Gundy:  The Earl of Warwick and the Royal Affinity in the Politics of the West Midlands, 1389–99
T.B. Pugh:  The Estates, Finances and Regal Aspirations of Richard Plantagenet (1411–60), Duke of York
Jessica Freeman:  Middlesex in the Fifteenth Century: Community or Communities?
John Hare:  Regional Prosperity in Fifteenth-Century England: Some Evidence from Wessex
John Lee:  The Trade of Fifteenth-Century Cambridge and its Region
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes:  Durham Cathedral Priory’s Consumption of Imported Goods: Wines and Spices, 1464–1520
Winifred Harwood:  The Impact of St. Swithun’s Priory on the City of Winchester in the Later Middle Ages
P.W. Fleming:  Telling Tales of Oligarchy in the Late Medieval Town

III
Authority and Subversion
ed. Linda Clark (2003)

Keith Dockray and Peter Fleming:  Authority and Subversion: A Conference on Fifteenth-Century England
Alastair Dunn:  Henry IV and the Politics of Resistance in Early Lancastrian England, 1399–1413
James Ross:  Seditious Activities: The Conspiracy of Maud de Vere, Countess of Oxford, 1403–4
Clive Burgess:  A Hotbed of Heresy? Fifteenth-Century Bristol and Lollardy Reconsidered
Ian Forrest:  Anti-Lollard Polemic and Practice in Late Medieval England
Hannes Kleineke:  Why the West was Wild: Law and Disorder in Fifteenth-Century Cornwall and Devon
Peter Booth:  Men Behaving Badly? The West March Towards Scotland and the Percy-Neville Feud
Frank D. Millard:  An Analysis of the Epitaphium Eiusdem Ducis Gloucestrie
J.L. Laynesmith:  Constructing Queenship at Coventry: Pageantry and Politics at Margaret of Anjou’s ‘Secret Harbour’
David Grummitt:  Public Service, Private Interest and Patronage in the
Fifteenth-Century Exchequer
James Lee:  Urban Recorders and the Crown in Late Medieval England

IV
Political Culture in Late-Medieval Britain
ed. Linda Clark and Christine Carpenter (2004)

Christine Carpenter:  Introduction: Political Culture, Politics and Cultural History
Simon Walker:  Remembering Richard: History and Memory in Lancastrian England
Maurice Keen:  Early Plantagenet History Through Late Medieval Eyes
Alan Cromartie:  Common Law, Counsel and Consent in Fortescue’s Political Theory
Benjamin Thompson:  Prelates and Politics from Winchelsey to Warham
Miri Rubin:  Religious Symbols and Political Culture in Fifteenth-Century England
Caroline M. Barron:  The Political Culture of Medieval London
Christopher Dyer:  The Political Life of the Fifteenth-Century English Village
John Watts:  The Pressure of the Public on Later Medieval Politics
Jenny Wormald:  National Pride, Decentralised Nation: The Political Culture of Fifteenth-Century Scotland

V
Of Mice and Men: Image, Belief and Regulation in Late Medieval England
ed. Linda Clark (2005)

Jon Denton:  Image, Identity and Gentility: The Woodford Experience
S.A. Mileson:  The Importance of Parks in Fifteenth-Century Society
Alasdair Hawkyard:  Sir John Fastolf’s ‘Gret Mansion by me late edified’: Caister Castle, Norfolk
Jenni Nuttall:  ‘Vostre Humble Matatyas’: Culture, Politics and the Percys
Clive Burgess:  A Repertory for Reinforcement: Configuring Civic Catholicism in Fifteenth-Century Bristol
Anne F. Sutton:  Caxton, the Cult of St. Winifred, and Shrewsbury
Thomas S. Freeman:  ‘Ut Verus Christi Sequester’: John Blacman and the Cult of Henry VI
P.R. Cavill:  The Problem of Labour and the Parliament of 1495
Colin Richmond:  Mickey Mouse in Disneyland: How Did the Fifteenth Century Get That Way?

VI
Identity and Insurgency in the Late Middle Ages
ed. Linda Clark (2006)

Anthony Goodman:  The British Isles Imagined
Andrea Ruddick:  Ethnic Identity and Political Language in the King of England’s Dominions: A Fourteenth-Century Perspective
Katie Stevenson:  ‘Thai War Callit Knychtis and Bere the Name and the Honour of that Hye Ordre’: Scottish Knighthood in the Fifteenth Century
Jackson Armstrong:  Violence and Peacemaking in the English Marches towards Scotland, c.1425–1440
Matthew Tompkins:  ‘Let’s Kill all the Lawyers’: Did Fifteenth-Century Peasants Employ Lawyers When They Conveyed Customary Land?
Simon Payling:  Identifiable Motives for Election to Parliament in the Reign of Henry VI: The Operation of Public and Private Factors
David Grummitt:  Deconstructing Cade’s Rebellion: Discourse and Politics in the Mid Fifteenth Century
Jacquelyn Fernholz and Jenni Nuttall:  Lydgate’s Poem to Thomas Chaucer: A Reassessment of its Diplomatic and Literary Contexts
Maureen Jurkowski:  Lollardy in Coventry and the Revolt of 1431
Carole Hill:  Julian and her Sisters: Female Piety in Late Medieval Norwich

VII
Conflicts, Consequences and the Crown in the Late Middle Ages
ed. Linda Clark (2007)

Christine Carpenter:  War, Government and Governance in England in the Later Middle Ages
Anne Curry:  After Agincourt, What Next? Henry V and the Campaign of 1416
James Ross:  Essex County Society and the French War in the Fifteenth Century
Michael Brown:  French Alliance or English Peace? Scotland and the Last Phase of the Hundred Years War, 1415–53
J.L. Bolton:  How Sir Thomas Rempston Paid His Ransom: Or, The Mistakes of an Italian Bank
Catherine Nall:  Perceptions of Financial Mismanagement and the English Diagnosis of Defeat
Hannes Kleineke:  ‘Þe Kynges Cite’: Exeter in the Wars of the Roses
Lucy Brown:  Continuity and Change in the Parliamentary Justifications of the Fifteenth-Century Usurpations
Peter Fleming:  Identity and Belonging: Irish and Welsh in Fifteenth-Century Bristol
Anthony Goodman:  The Impact of Warfare on the Scottish Marches, c.1481–c.1513
G.M. Draper:  Writing English, French and Latin in the Fifteenth Century: A Regional Perspective

VIII
Rule, Redemption and Representations in Late Medieval England and France
ed. Linda Clark (2008)

Carole Rawcliffe:  Dives Redeemed? The Guild Almshouses of Later Medieval England
Kathleen Daly:  War, History and Memory in the Dauphiné in the Fifteenth Century: Two Accounts of the Battle of Anthon (1430)
Lucy Rhymer:  Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and the City of London
Jonathan Mackman:  ‘Hidden Gems’ in the Records of the Common Pleas: New Evidence on the Legacy of Lucy Visconti
Colin Richmond:  Sir John Fastolf, the Duke of Suffolk, and the Pastons
David King:  Reading the Material Culture: Stained Glass and Politics in Late Medieval Norfolk
Anne F. Sutton:  An Unfinished Celebration of the Yorkist Accession by a Clerk of the Merchant Staplers of Calais
Ruth Lexton:  Henry Medwall’s Fulgens and Lucres and the Question of Nobility Under Henry VII

IX
English and Continental Perspectives
ed. Linda Clark (2010)

Christine Carpenter:  Henry VI and the Deskilling of the Royal Bureaucracy
Sarah Rose:  A Twelfth-Century Honour in a Fifteenth-Century World: The Honour of Pontefract
Frederik Buylaert and Jan Dumolyn:  The Representation of Nobility and Chivalry in Burgundian Historiography: A Social Perspective
Vincent Challet:  Tuchins and ‘Brigands de Bois’: Peasant Communities and Self-Defence Movements in Normandy During the Hundred Years War
Juliana Dresvina:  A Heron for a Dame: A Hitherto Unpublished Middle English Prose Life of St. Margaret of Antioch in BL, Harley MS 4012
Andy King:  Sir William Clifford: Rebellion and Reward in Henry IV’s Affinity
Jessica Lutkin:  Luxury and Display in Silver and Gold at the Court of Henry IV
Alessia Meneghin:  Nursing Infants and Wet-Nurses in Fifteenth-Century Florence: Piero Puro di Francesco Da Vicchio and his Wife, Santa di Betto Da San Benedetto

X
Parliament, Personalities and Power:
Papers Presented to Linda Clark
ed. Hannes Kleineke (2011)

A.J. Pollard:  The People and Parliament in Fifteenth-Century England
Simon Payling:  ‘A Beest envenymed thorough … covetize’: An Imposter Pilgrim and the Disputed Descent of the Manor of Dodford, 1306–1481
Charles Moreton and Colin Richmond:  Henry Inglose: A Hard Man to Please
J.L. Bolton:  London Merchants and the Borromei Bank in the 1430s: The Role of Local Credit Networks
James Ross:  ‘Mischieviously Slewen’: John, Lord Scrope, the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the Murder of Henry Howard in 1446
Carole Rawcliffe:  A Fifteenth-Century Medicus Politicus: John Somerset, Physician to Henry VI
Elizabeth Danbury:  ‘Domine Salvum Fac Regem’: The Origin of ‘God Save the King’ in the Reign of Henry VI
Matthew Davies:  ‘Monuments of Honour’: Clerks, Histories and Heroes in the London Livery Companies
Hannes Kleineke:  The East Anglian Parliamentary Elections of 1461
David Grummitt:  Changing Perceptions of the Soldier in Late Medieval England
Caroline M. Barron:  Thomas More, the London Charterhouse and Richard III

XI
Concerns and Preoccupations
ed. Linda Clark (2012)

Christopher Allmand:  The English Translations of Vegetius’ De Re Militari. What Were their Authors’ Intentions?
John Milner:  The English Commitment to the 1412 Expedition to France
Rhun Emlyn:  Serving Church and State: the Careers of Medieval Welsh Students
Peter D. Clarke:  Petitioning the Pope: English Supplicants and Rome in the Fifteenth Century
Frederick Hepburn:  The Queen in Exile: Representing Margaret of Anjou in Art and Literature
Anthony Smith:  The Presence of the Past: The Bokkyngs of Longham in the Later Middle Ages
Dean Rowland:  The End of the Statute Rolls: Manuscript, Print and Language Change in Fifteenth-Century English Statutes
S.P. Harper:  Divide and Rule? Henry VII, the Mercers, Merchant Taylors and the Corporation of London

XII
Society in an Age of Plague
ed. Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe (2013)

J.L. Bolton:  Looking for Yersinia Pestis: Scientists, Historians and the Black Death
Karen Smyth:  Pestilence and Poetry: John Lydgate’s Danse Macabre
Sheila Sweetinburgh:  Pilgrimage in ‘an Age of Plague’: Seeking Canterbury’s ‘hooly blisful martir’ in 1420 and 1470
Elizabeth Rutledge:  An Urban Environment: Norwich in the Fifteenth Century
Samantha Sagui:  Mid-Level Officials in Fifteenth-Century Norwich
Elma Brenner:  Leprosy and Public Health in Late Medieval Rouen
Neil Murphy:  Plague Ordinances and the Management of Infectious Diseases in Northern French Towns, c.1450–c.1560
Jane Stevens Crawshaw:  The Renaissance Invention of Quarantine
John Henderson:  Coping with Epidemics in Renaissance Italy: Plague and the Great Pox
Samuel K. Cohn, Jnr.:  The Historian and the Laboratory: The Black Death Disease

XIII
Exploring the Evidence: Commemoration, Administration and the Economy
ed. Linda Clark (2014)

S.J. Payling:  The ‘Grete Laboure and the Long and Troublous Tyme’: The Execution of the Will of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, and the Foundation of Tattershall College
Christian Steer:  A Royal Grave in a Fifteenth-Century London Parish Church
Matthew Ward:  The Livery Collar: Politics and Identity During the Fifteenth Century
David Harry:  William Caxton and Commemorative Culture in Fifteenth-Century England
Euan C. Roger:  Blakberd’s Treasure: A Study in Fifteenth-Century Administration at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
Sheila Sweetinburgh:  Placing the Hospital: The Production of St. Lawrence’s Hospital Registers in Fifteenth-Century Canterbury
Maureen Jurkowski:  Were Friars Paid Salaries? Evidence from Clerical Taxation Records
Susanne Jenks:  Exceptions in General Pardons, 1399–1450
Martin Allen:  The English Crown and the Coinage, 1399–1485
Christopher Dyer:  England’s Economy in the Fifteenth Century

XIV
Essays Presented to Michael Hicks
ed. Linda Clark (2015)

Caroline Barron:  Michael Hicks: An Appreciation
Anne Curry:  Disciplinary Ordinances for English Garrisons in Normandy in the Reign of Henry V
Christopher Dyer:  Lords in a Landscape: the Berkeley Family and Northfield (Worcestershire)
Mark Page:  Hampshire and the Parish Tax of 1428
Gordon McKelvie:  The Livery Act of 1429
A.J. Pollard:  An Indenture between Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and Sir Edmund Darell of Sessay, North Riding, 1435
Ralph Griffiths:  The Pursuit of Justice and Inheritance from Marcher Lordships to Parliament: the Implications of Margaret Malefaunt’s Abduction in Gower in 1438
Peter Fleming:  The Battles of Mortimer’s Cross and Second St. Albans: the Regional Dimension
S.J. Payling:  Widows and the Wars of the Roses: the Turbulent Marital History of Edward IV’s Putative Mistress, Margaret, daughter of Sir Lewis John of West Horndon, Essex
Hannes Kleineke:  Some Observations on the Household and Circle of Humphrey Stafford, Lord Stafford of Southwick and Earl of Devon: the Last Will of Roger Bekensawe
James Ross:  The Treatment of Traitors’ Children and Edward IV’s Clemency in the 1460s
Anne F. Sutton:  Edward IV and Bury St. Edmunds’ Search for Self-Government
Matthew Holford:  The Exchequer Inquisitions Post Mortem
Karen Stöber:  Hams for Prayers: Regular Canons and their Lay Patrons in Medieval Catalonia
John Hare:  Production, Specialisation and Consumption in Late Medieval Wessex
Winifred A. Harwood:  A Butt of Wine and Two Barrels of Herring: Southampton’s Trading Links with Religious Institutions in Winchester in South Central England, 1430–1540

XV
Writing, Records and Rhetoric
ed. Linda Clark (2017)

Michael J Bennett: The Libelle of English Policy: The Matter of Ireland
Julia Boffey: ‘Stories of Divers Regions and Provinces’: Some Digests of History and Geography for Late-Medieval English Readers
Joanna Laynesmith: ‘To please … Dame Cecely that in latyn hath lityll intellect’: Books and the Duchess of York
John Milner: A Case Study in Lancastrian Service and Personal Survival: the Career of William, Lord Roos of Helmsley (c.1370-1414)
Ben Pope: Identity, Discourse and Political Strategy: Margrave Albrecht Achilles (1414-86) and the Rhetoric of Antagonism between Town and Nobility in Upper Germany
Tom Johnson: The Redistribution of Forest Law and Administration in Fifteenth-Century England
Sarah E. Thomas: Well-Connected and Qualified Clerics? The Bishops of Dunkeld and Sodor in the Fifteenth Century
Jon-Mark Grussenmeyer: Preaching Politics: Lancastrian Chancellors in Parliament
Dan E. Seward: Bishop John Alcock and the Roman Invasion of Parliament: Introducing Renaissance Civic Humanism to Tudor Parliamentary Proceedings
Paul Cavill: Preaching on Magna Carta at the End of the Fifteenth Century: John Alcock’s Sermon at Paul’s Cross

XVI
Examining Identity
ed. Linda Clark (2018)

Claire Macht: Changes in Monastic Historical Writing Throughout the Long Fifteenth Century
David Lepine: ‘Such Great Merits’: The Pastoral Influence of a Learned Resident Vicar, John Hornley of Dartford
Des Atkinson: Getting Connected: the Medieval Ordinand and his Search for Titulus
Samuel Lane: The Political Career of William Ayscough, Bishop of Salisbury, 1438-50
Daniel F. Gosling: Edward IV’s Charta de Libertatibus Clericorum
Simon Egan: A Playground of the Scots? Gaelic Ireland and the Stewart Monarchy in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Brian Coleman: An English Gentry Abroad: the Gentry of English Ireland
Zosia Edwards: Identity Theft in Later Medieval London
Charles Giry-Deloison: Dying on Duty: a French Ambassador’s Funeral in London in 1512

XVII

Finding Individuality

ed. Linda Clark (2020)

Chris Given-Wilson: Royal Wills, 1376-1475

Samuel Lane: Propaganda, Piety and Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Henry V’s Vernacular War Letters to the City of London, 1417-21

Anne Sutton: ‘To Be of Oon Demeanyng and Unite for the Wele of Your Self and of the Contre There: Yorkist Plans for the Lordship of Ireland, the Last Phase

Anthony Gross: A Mirror for a Princess: Antoine de la Sale and the Political Psyche of Margaret of Anjou

Alice Raw: Margaret of Anjou and the Language of Praise and Censure

S.J. Payling: On ‘Peyne of their Lyfes … they Shuld no Verdit gif, but if they Wold Endite the Seid William Tresham of his Owen Deth’: the Murder of Lawyers in Fifteenth-Century England

David Grummitt: ‘Stond Horeson and Yelde thy Knyff’: Urban Politics, Language and Litigation in Late Medieval Canterbury

Deborah Youngs: ‘In to the Sterre Chambre’: Female Plaintiffs Before the King’s Council in the Reign of Henry VII

 

XVIII

Rulers, Retinues and Regions. Essays Presented to A.J. Pollard

Ed. Linda Clark and Peter Fleming (2020)

Gwilym Dodd: Tyranny and Affinity: The Public and Private Authority of Richard II and Richard III
Douglas Biggs: The Commission to ensure Good Governance of 11 May 1402: A Case-Study of Lancastrian Counter-Propaganda
Michael Hicks: A Failure in Foresight: the Lancastrian Kings and the Lancastrian Dukes
Andy King: The Strothers: A Tale of Northern Gentle Folk, Social Mobility and Stagnation in Late Medieval Northumberland
Rosemary Horrox: ‘No Good unto our said King at this Time’
Keith Dockray: Contemporary and Near-Contemporary Chroniclers: The North of England and the Wars of the Roses, c.1450-1471
Hannes Kleineke: England, 1461: Predominantly Provincial Perspectives on the Early Months of the Reign of Edward IV
James Ross: Greater Landowners and the Management of their Estates in Late Medieval England
Ralph A. Griffiths: Lordship and the Social Elite in the Lordship of Gower during the Wars of the Roses
Sean Cunningham: A Yorkist Legacy for the Tudor Prince of Wales on the Welsh Marches: Affinity-Building, Regional Government and National Politics, 1471-1502
Anne Curry: Southern England and Campaigns to France, 1415-1453
Michael J Bennett: Last Men Standing: Lancashire Soldiers in the Wars in France
Carole Rawcliffe: Northern Pride goes Before a Fall: The ‘Horrorable’ History of Adelston Attysle
Anne Curry: Professor Tony Pollard: An Appreciation
Sandra Pollard: The Published Works of A.J. (Tony) Pollard, 1972-2019

XIX

Emnity and Amity

ed. Linda Clark (2022)