Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- The People and Parliament in Fifteenth-Century England
- ‘A Beest envenymed thorough … covetize’: an Imposter Pilgrim and the Disputed Descent of the Manor of Dodford, 1306-1481
- Henry Inglose: A Hard Man to Please
- London Merchants and the Borromei Bank in the 1430s: the Role of Local Credit Networks
- ‘Mischieviously Slewen’: John, Lord Scrope, the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the Murder of Henry Howard in 1446
- A Fifteenth-Century Medicus Politicus: John Somerset, Physician to Henry VI
- ‘Domine Salvum Fac Regem’: The Origin of ‘God Save the King’ in the Reign of Henry VI
- ‘Monuments of Honour’: Clerks, Histories and Heroes in the London Livery Companies
- The East Anglian Parliamentary Elections of 1461
- Changing Perceptions of the Soldier in Late Medieval England
- Thomas More, the London Charterhouse and Richard III
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoria
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- The People and Parliament in Fifteenth-Century England
- ‘A Beest envenymed thorough … covetize’: an Imposter Pilgrim and the Disputed Descent of the Manor of Dodford, 1306-1481
- Henry Inglose: A Hard Man to Please
- London Merchants and the Borromei Bank in the 1430s: the Role of Local Credit Networks
- ‘Mischieviously Slewen’: John, Lord Scrope, the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the Murder of Henry Howard in 1446
- A Fifteenth-Century Medicus Politicus: John Somerset, Physician to Henry VI
- ‘Domine Salvum Fac Regem’: The Origin of ‘God Save the King’ in the Reign of Henry VI
- ‘Monuments of Honour’: Clerks, Histories and Heroes in the London Livery Companies
- The East Anglian Parliamentary Elections of 1461
- Changing Perceptions of the Soldier in Late Medieval England
- Thomas More, the London Charterhouse and Richard III
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoria
Summary
An editor must never expect thanks (sometimes they come, but they must always be seen as a bonus). We must always remember that we are only midwives – if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.
It was in the early summer of 2010, in the final stages of the production of volume IX of The Fifteenth Century, and with a sigh of resignation, that Linda Clark quoted these lines from Diana Athill's autobiography. Unknown to her, at that point friends and colleagues past and present were already conspiring to prove them wrong. Now, the present collection of essays has reached completion, and the conspirators may come out into the open to offer them to their recipient as a mark of affection, respect and gratitude.
During a long career, Dr. Clark has placed the editing and promotion of the research of others ahead of the publication of monographs of her own: as an editor of the volumes of the History of Parliament for 1386–1421, and currently for 1422–1504; as general editor of The Fifteenth Century series, which incorporates many of the papers presented at the annual Fifteenth Century conferences (of which she has been a stalwart since their inception in the 1970s); as editor and coeditor of two special issues of the journal Parliamentary History, published by the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust, of which she is also a trustee; and as one of the convenors of the Late Medieval Seminar at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research.
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- The Fifteenth Century XParliament, Personalities and Power - Papers Presented to Linda S. Clark, pp. xiii - xvPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011