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Late Medieval England

Suggested Reading List

A. Compton Reeves, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Economic Affairs

  • Bean, J.M.W.: The Estates of the Percy Family, 1416-1537. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
  • Blair, John & Ramsey, Nigel (Eds.): English Medieval Industries: Craftsmen, Techniques, Products. London: Hambledon, 1991.
  • Bonney, Margaret: Lordship and the Urban Community: Durham and its Overlords, 1250-1540. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • Booth, P.H.W.: The Financial Administration of the Lordship and County of Chester, 1272-1377. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1982.
  • Bridbury, A.R.: England and the Salt Trade in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.
  • Bridbury, A.R.: Medieval English Clothmaking. London: Heinemann, 1982.
  • Campbell, Bruce M.S. (Ed.): Before the Black Death: Studies in the "Crisis" of the Early Fourteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991.
  • Childs, Wendy R.: Anglo-Castilian Trade in the Later Middle Ages. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1978.
  • Childs, Wendy R.: "Anglo-Portuguese Trade in the Fifteenth Century," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Ser. 6, 2 (1992): 195-219.
  • Childs, W.R.: "England's Iron Trade in the Fifteenth Century." Economic History Review, 2nd Ser., 34 (1981): 25-47.
  • Denholm-Young, N.: Seignoroial Administration in England. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1937.
  • Dyer, Christopher: "A Redistribution of Incomes in Fifteenth-Century England." Past and Present, No. 39 (1968), 11-33.
  • Dyer, Christopher: Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • Goldberg, P.J.P.: Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire, c. 1300-1520. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Hatcher, J.: Rural Economy and Society in the Duchy of Cornwall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
  • Heath, Peter: "North Sea Fishing in the Fifteenth Century." Northern History 3 (1968): 53-69.
  • Hindle, Brian Paul: Medieval Roads. 2nd Ed., Aylesbury: Shire Publications, 1989.
  • Hockey, S.F.: Quarr Abbey and its Lands, 1132-1631. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1970.
  • Holmes, G.A.: The Estates of the Higher Nobility in Fourteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957.
  • Holt, Richard A.: The Mills of Medieval England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
  • James, M.K.: The Medieval Wine Trade. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
  • Kershaw, Ian: "The Great Famine and Agrarian Crisis in England, 1315-1322." Past and Present, No. 59 (1973): 3-50.
  • Labarge, M.W.: Gascony, England's First Colony, 1203-1453. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980.
  • Lloyd, T.H.: Alien Merchants in England in the High Middle Ages. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982.
  • Lloyd, T.H.: England and the German Hanse, 1157-1611: A Study of their Trade and Commercial Diplomacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Lloyd, T.H.: The English Wool Trade in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
  • Munro, John H.A.: Wool, Cloth, and Gold: The Struggle for Bullion in Anglo-Burgundian Trade. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
  • Power, E.E.: The Wool Trade in English Medieval History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941.
  • Reeves, A.C.: The Marcher Lords. Llandybie: Christopher Davies, 1983.
  • Reeves, A.C.: Newport Lordship, 1317-1536. Ann Arbor: U.M.I., 1979.
  • Steel, Anthony Bedford: The Receipt of the Exchequer, 1377-1485. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954.
  • Swanson, Heather: Medieval Artisans: An Urban Class in Late Medieval England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
  • Thomson, John A.F. (Ed.): Towns and Townspeople in the Fifteenth Century. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988.
  • Veale, E.M.: The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
  • Wolffe, B.P.: The Royal Demesne in English History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1971.
  • Zeigler, P.: The Black Death. New York: Harper Torchbook, 1969.

Military History

  • Allmand, C.T.: The Hundred Years War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  • Allmand, C.T.: Lancastrian Normandy, 1415-1450. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
  • Allmand, C.T.: Society at War. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973.
  • Armstrong, C.A.J.: "Politics and the Battle of St. Albans, 1455." Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research. XXXIII (1960): 1-72.
  • Barnie, John: War in Medieval English Society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974.
  • Bennett, Michael: The Battle of Bosworth. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
  • Bornstein, Diane: ""Military Manuals in Fifteenth-Century England." Medieval Studies. 37 (1976): 469-77.
  • Burne, Alfred H.: The Agincourt War. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956.
  • Burne, Alfred H.: The Crecy War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.
  • Cole, Hubert: The Wars of the Roses. London: Hart-David MacGibbon, 1973.
  • Coss, P.R.: "Bastard Feudalism Revised." Past and Present, No. 125 (1989): 27-64.
  • Coss, P.R.: The Knight in Medieval England 1000-1400. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1993.
  • Crouch, David; Carpenter, David A.; Coss, Peter, R.: "Debate: Bastard Feudalism Revised." Past and Present, 131 (1991): 165-303.
  • Curry, Ann, and Hughes, Michael (Eds.): Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1994.
  • Duncan, A.A.M.: "The War of the Scots, 1306-23." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Ser. 6, 2 (1992): 125-51.
  • Fowler, Kenneth (Ed.): The Hundred Years War. London: Macmillan, 1971.
  • Fowler, Kenneth: The King's Lieutenant. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969.
  • Gillingham, John: The Wars of the Roses. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
  • Goodman, Anthony: The Wars of the Roses. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
  • Hallam, Elizabeth (Ed.): The Wars of the Roses. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
  • Hammond, P.W.: The Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1990.
  • Hay, Denys: "The Division of the Spoils of War in Fourteenth-Century England." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Ser., IV (1954): 91-109.
  • Hewitt, H.J.: The Organization of War under Edward III, 1338-62. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1966.
  • Hibbert, Christopher: Agincourt. London: Batsford, 1964.
  • Hicks, Michael: Bastard Feudalism. London: Longman, 1995.
  • Keegan, John: The Face of Battle. New York: Viking Press, 1976.
  • Keen, M.H.: The Laws of War in the Later Middle Ages. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.
  • Lewis, N.B.: "The Feudal Summons of 1385." English Historical Review, 100 (1985): 729-43. With comment by J.J.N. Palmer, pp. 743-46.
  • McFarlane, K.B.: "Bastard Feudalism." Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, XX (1943-45), 161-80.
  • McFarlane, K.B.: "The Wars of the Roses." Proceedings of the British Academy, 50 (1964): 87-119.
  • Morgan, Philip: War and Society in Medieval Cheshire, 1277-1403. Manchester: Chetham Society Third Series vol. 34, 1987.
  • Phillipotts, Christopher: "The French Plan of Battle during the Agincourt Campaign." English Historical Review, 99 (1984): 59-66.
  • Pollard, A.J.: John Talbot and the War in France, 1427-1453. London: Royal Historical Society, 1983.
  • Pollard, A.J.: The Wars of the Roses. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
  • Powicke, Michael R.: Military Obligation in Medieval England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.
  • Priestly, E.: The Battle of Shrewbury, 1403. Shrewsbury: Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council, 1979.
  • Reeves, A.C.: "The Congress of Arras." History Today, XXII (1972): 714-32.
  • Ross, Charles: The Wars of the Roses. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
  • Vale, Malcolm: War and Chivalry. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1981.
  • Whiting, B.J.: "The Vows of the Heron." Speculum, 20 (1945): 261-78.

Particular Monarchs

  • Allmand, C.T.: Henry V. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
  • Du Boulay, F.R.H., and Barron, C.M. (Eds.): The Reign of Richard II. London: Athlone Press, 1971.
  • Earle, Peter: The Life and Times of Henry V. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972.
  • Fryde, Natalie: The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II, 1321-26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
  • Griffiths, R.A.: The Reign of Henry VI. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
  • Harris, G.L. (Ed.): Henry V: The Practice of Kingship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  • Horrox, Rosemary: Richard III: A Study in Service. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • Horrox, Rosemary (Ed.): Richard III and the North. Hull: University of Hull, Studies in Regional and Local History, 6, 1986.
  • Hutchison, H.F.: Edward II. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1971.
  • Hutchison, H.F.: The Hollow Crown. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1961.
  • Jacob, E.F.: Henry V and the Invasion of France. New York: Collier, 1966.
  • Kendall, P.M.: Richard III. New York: W.W.Norton, 1955.
  • Kirby, J.L.: Henry IV of England. London: Constable, 1970.
  • Labarge, M.W.: Henry V. London: Secker and Warburg, 1975.
  • McNiven, Peter: Heresy and Politics in the Reign of Henry IV: The Burning of John Badby. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1987.
  • McNiven, Peter: "Legitimacy and Consent: Henry IV and the Lancastrian Title, 1399-1406." Mediæval Studies, 44 (1982): 470-88.
  • Ormond, W.M.: The Reign of Edward III. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
  • Pollard, A.J.: Richard III and the Princes in the Tower. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
  • Pollard, A.J.: "The Tyranny of Richard III." Journal of Medieval History, III (1977), 147-65.
  • Pugh, T.B.: Henry V and the Southampton Plot of 1415. Southampton: Southampton University Press, 1988.
  • Ross, C.D.: Edward IV. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
  • Ross, C.D.: Richard III. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
  • Tuck, J. Anthony: Richard III and the English Nobility. London: Edward Arnold, 1973.
  • Vale, Juliet: Edward III and Chivalry. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1983.
  • Waugh, Scott L.: England in the Reign of Edward III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Wolffe, B.P.: Henry IV. London: Eyre Methuen, 1981.
  • Wood, Charles T.: "The Deposition of Edward V." Traditio, XXXI (1975): 247-86.

Government Administration

  • Brown, A.L.: The Governance of Late Medieval England, 1272-1461. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.
  • Brown, A.L.: "The King's Councillors in Fifteenth-Century England." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Ser., XIX (1969): 95-118.
  • Chrimes, S.B.: An Introduction to the Administrative History of Medieval England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1959.
  • Cuttino, G.P.: English Medieval Diplomacy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
  • Davies, R.G., and Denton, J.H. (Eds.): The English Parliament in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.
  • Harriss, Gerald L.: "War and the Emergence of the English Parliament." Journal of Medieval History," II (1976): 35-56.
  • Holmes, G.A.: The Good Parliament. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
  • Jewell, H.M.: English Local Administration in the Middle Ages. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1972.
  • Lander, J.R.: English Justices of the Peace, 1461-1509. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1990.
  • Ormrod, W.M.: "An Experiment in Taxation: The English Subsidy of 1371." Speculum, 63 (1988): 58-82.
  • Otway-Ruthven, J.: The King's Secretary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939.
  • Putnam, Bertha Haven: "The Transformation of the Keepers of the Peace into the Justices of the Peace, 1327-1380." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th Ser., XII (1929): 19-48.
  • Reeves, A.C.: "General Proclamations from the Chancery of Henry VI of England." Journal of Unconventional History, 3/2 (1991-92): 70-81.
  • Reeves, A.C.: Purveyors and Purveyance. Notre Dame: Foundations Press, 1983.
  • Reeves, A.C.: "Thomas Hoccleve, Bureaucrat." Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series, V (1974): 201-14.
  • Roskell, John Smith: The Commons and their Speakers in English Parliaments, 1376-1523. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1965.
  • Smith, C.W.: "Some Trends in the English Royal Chancery, 1377-1483." Medieval Prosopography, VI (No. 1, 1985): 69-94.
  • Wilkenson, Bertie: The Chancery under Edward III. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1929.
  • Willard, J.F., and Morris, W.A. (Eds.): The English Government at Work, 1327-1336. 3 vols. Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1940-50.

Accounts of Individuals

  • Barber, Richard: Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine. London: Allen Lane, 1978.
  • Bennett, H.S.: The Pastons and their England. 2nd Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932.
  • Biggs, Douglas: "'A Wrong Whom Conscience and Kindred Bid Me Right': A Reassessment of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, and the Usurpation of Henry IV." Albion, 26 (1994): 253-72.
  • Cole, Hubert: The Black Prince. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1976.
  • Coward, Barry: The Stanleys, Lords Stanley and Earls of Derby, 1385-1672. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983.
  • Fowler, Kenneth: The King's Lieutenant. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969.
  • Goodman, Anthony: John of Gaunt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
  • Goodman, Anthony: The Loyal Conspiracy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971.
  • Griffiths, R.A., and Thomas, R.S.: The Making of the Tudor Dynasty. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985.
  • Hamilton, J.S.: Piers Gaveston. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988.
  • Hanham, Alison: The Celys and their World: An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  • Hicks, M.A.: False, Fleeting, Perjur'd Clarence: George, Duke of Clarence. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1980.
  • Horrox, Rosemary: The De La Poles of Hull. Beverley: East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1983.
  • Johnson, P.A.: Duke Richard of York, 1411-1460. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
  • McFarlane, K.B.: Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
  • Maddicott, J.R.: Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-1322. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.
  • Phillips, J.R.S.: Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, 1307-1324. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
  • Reeves, A.C.: Lancastrian Englishmen. Washington, D.C., University Press of America, 1981.
  • Richmond, Colin: John Hopton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  • Roskell, J.S.: The Impeachment of Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, in 1386. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984.
  • Sherborne, James: William Canynges, 1402-1474. Bristol: Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1985.
  • Trueman, John H.: "The Personnel of Medieval Reform: The English Lords Ordainers of 1310," Mediæval Studies, XXI (1959): 247-71.

Law and Justice

  • Aston, M.E.: "Lollardy and Sedition 1381-1431." Past and Present, No. 17 (1960): 1-44.
  • Aston, T.H., and Hilton, R.H. (Eds.): The English Rising of 1381. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
  • Avery, M.E.: "An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Court of Chancery under the Lancastrian Kings." Law Quarterly Review, LXXXVI (1970): 84-97.
  • Avery, Margaret E.: "The History of the Equitable Jurisdiction of Chancery before 1460." Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, XLII (1969): 129-44.
  • Bellamy, J.G.: Bastard Feudalism and the Law. Portland: Areopagitica Press, 1989.
  • Bellamy, John G.: Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.
  • Bellamy, J.G.: Criminal Law and Society in Late Medieval and Tudor England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1978.
  • Blatcher, Marjorie: The Court of the King's Bench, 1450-1550: A Study in Self-Help. London: Athlone Press, 1978.
  • Dobson, R.B. (Ed.): The Peasants' Revolt of 1381. London: Macmillan, 1970.
  • Hanawalt, B.A.: "Violent Death in Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth-Century England." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 18 (1976): 297-320.
  • Harding, Alan: The Law Courts of Medieval England. London: Allen and Unwin, 1973.
  • Harvey, I.M.W.: Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
  • Hastings, Margaret: The Court of Common Pleas in Fifteenth-Century England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1947.
  • Helmholz, R.H.: Marriage Litigation in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
  • Jewell, H.M. (Ed.): The Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield from September 1348 to September 1350. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1981.
  • Kimball, E.G. (Ed.): Oxfordshire Sessions of the Peace in the Reign of Richard II. Oxford: Oxfordshire Record Society, 1983.
  • Lyle, H.M.: The Rebellion of Jack Cade, 1450. London: Historical Association, 1950.
  • Meron, Theodor: Henry's Wars and Shakespeare's Laws: Perspectives in the Law of War in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
  • Powell, Edward: Kingship, Law and Society: Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
  • Pugh, R.B.: Imprisonment in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968.
  • Reeves, A.C.: "The Great Sessions in the Lordship of Newport in 1503." Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, XXVI (1974-6): 323-41.
  • Sutherland, D.W. (Ed.): The Eyre of Northamptonshire, 3-4 Edward III, A.D. 1329-1330. London: Seldon Society, 1983.
  • Walker, S.S. (Ed.): The Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield from October 1331 to September 1333. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1983.
  • Westman, Barbara Hanawalt: "The Peasant Family and Crime in Fourteenth-Century England." Journal of British Studies, XIII (1973-4): 1-18.

Church and Churchmen

  • Aston, Margaret: Thomas Arundel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
  • Ball, R.M.: "Thomas Cyrcetur, a Fifteenth-century Theologian and Preacher." Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 37 (1986): 205-39.
  • Barnes, G.D.: Kirkstall Abbey, 1147-1539: An Historical Study. Leeds: Thoresby Society, 1984.
  • Buck, Mark: Politics, Finance and the Church in the Reign of Edward II: Walter Stapledon, Treasurer of England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  • Cheney, C.R.: "William Lynwood's 'Provinciale'." Medieval Texts and Studies, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
  • Davies, Cecily: "The Statute of Provisors of 1351." History, XXXIX (1935): 116-35.
  • Davis, Virginia: William Waynflete: Bishop and Educationalist. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1993.
  • Dickinson, J.C.: The Later Middle Ages (An Ecclesiastical History of England). London: Adam and Charles Black, 1979.
  • Dickinson, J.C.: Monastic Life in Medieval England. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
  • Dobson, R.B. (Ed.): The Church, Politics, and Patronage in the Fifteenth Century. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1984.
  • Dobson, R.B.: Durham Priory, 1400-1450. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
  • Du Boulay, F.R.H.: The Lordship of Canterbury. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966.
  • Harriss, G.L.: Cardinal Beaufort. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
  • Heath, Peter: The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
  • Hudson, Anne: The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
  • Hudson, Anne (Ed.): <.strong>Selections from English Wycliffite Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
  • Hughes, Jonathan: Pastors and Visionaries: Religion and Secular Life in Late Medieval Yorkshire. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1988.
  • Jacob. E.F.: Archbishop Henry Chichele. London: Nelson, 1967.
  • Kenny, Anthony: Wyclif. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  • Leff, Gordon: "John Wyclif: The Path to Dissent." Proceedings of the British Academy, LII (1966): 143-80.
  • McFarlane, K.B.: John Wycliffe and the Beginnings of English Nonconformity. London: English Universities Press, 1952.
  • Mudroch, Vaclav: The Wyclyf Tradition. Ed. by A.C. Reeves. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1979.
  • Pantin, W.A.: The English Church in the Fourteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955.
  • Power, Eileen Edna: Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275-1535. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.
  • Pronger, Winifred: "Thomas Gascoinge." English Historical Review, LIII (1938): 606-26.
  • Reeves, A.C.: "The Careers of William Longwood." Documenting the Past: Essays in Medieval History presented to George Peddy Cuttino. Eds. J.S. Hamilton & P.J. Bradley. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1989.
  • Rosenthal, Joel Thomas: "The Training of an Elite Group: The English Bishops in the Fifteenth Century." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, LX (1970): Part 5, 1-54.
  • Schoeck, R.J.: "Canon Law in England on the Eve of the Reformation," Mediæval Studies, 25 (1963): 125-47.
  • Storey, R.L.: Diocesan Administration in Fifteenth-Century England. 2nd Edition. York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1972.
  • Swanson, R.N.: Church and Society in Late Medieval England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
  • Thompson, A. Hamilton: The English Clergy and their Organization in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947.
  • Warren, A.K.: Anchorites and their Patrons in Medieval England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
  • Weske, D.B.: Convocation of the Clergy. London: S.P.C.K., 1937.

Culture and Society

  • Acheson, Eric: A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, c. 1422 - c. 1485. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • Bean, J.M.W.: From Lord to Patron: Lordship in Late Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
  • Bennett, Henry Stanley: Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947.
  • Bennett, H.S.: Life on the English Manor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937.
  • Bennett, Michael J.: Community, Class and Careerism: Cheshire and Lancashire Society in the Age of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  • Blake, Norman Francis: Caxton: England's First Publisher. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1976.
  • Brewer, Derek S.: Chaucer. 3rd Edition. London: Longman, 1973.
  • Brewer, Derek S. (Ed.): Writers and their Background: Geoffrey Chaucer. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1975.
  • Bullough, Vern L.: "Medical Study at Mediæval Oxford." Speculum, 36 (1961): 601-12.
  • Carey, Hilary Mary: Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle Ages. New York: St.Martin's Press, 1992.
  • Carpenter, Christine: Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • Chambers, E.K.: English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947.
  • Clarke, Helen: The Archaeology of Medieval England. London: Colonnade Books, 1984.
  • Clough, C.H. (Ed.): Profession, Vocation, and Culture in Later Medieval England. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1982.
  • Cobban, A.B.: The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge To c. 1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
  • Crewe, Sarah: Stained Glass in England, c. 1180-1540. London: HMSO, 1987.
  • Evans, Joan: English Art, 1307-1461. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949.
  • Fisher, John H.: John Gower: Moral Philosopher and Friend of Chaucer. New York: New York University Press, 1964.
  • Ford, Boris (Ed.): The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain: Volume 2: The Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  • Getz, Fay Marie: Healing and Society in Medieval England: A Middle English Translation of the Pharmceutical Writings of Gilbertus Anglicus. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
  • Green, Richard Firth: Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.
  • Hanawalt, B.A.: Growing Up in Medieval London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Hanawalt, B.A.: The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
  • Harrison, Frank L.: Music in Medieval Britain. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963.
  • Harvey, John Hooper: The Perpendicular Style: 1330-1485. London: Batsford, 1978.
  • Hatcher, John: "English Serfdom and Villeinage: Towards a Reassessment." Past and Present, 90 (1981): 3-39.
  • Hefferman, Thomas J. (Ed.): The Popular Literature of Medieval England. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
  • Hilton, R.H.: The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
  • Hindley, Geoffrey: England in the Age of Caxton. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.
  • Horrox, Rosemary (Ed.): Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Howard, Donald R.: Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987.
  • Jenner, Michael: Journeys into Medieval England. London: M. Joseph, 1991.
  • Jewell, Helen M.: "'The Bringing Up of Children in Good Learning and Manners': A Survey of Secular Educational Provision in the North of England, c. 1350-1550." Northern History, 18 (1982): 1-25.
  • Keen, Maurice: English Society in the Later Middle Ages. Hammondsworth: Penguin, 1990.
  • Kingsford, C.L.: English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.
  • Kingsford, C.L.: Prejudice and Promise in Fifteenth Century England. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1925.
  • Leader, D.R.: "Philosophy at Oxford and Cambridge in the Fifteenth Century." History of Universities 4 (1984): 25-46.
  • Lovatt, Roger: "John Blacman: Biographer of Henry VI." The Writing of History in the Middle Ages. Ed. R.H.C. Davis & J.M. Wallace-Hadrill. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. pp.415-44.
  • Lucas, Peter J.: "John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393-1464), Scribe and 'Publisher'." Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 5 (1969-71): 1-35.
  • McFarlane, K.B.: The Nobility of Later Medieval England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
  • McRee, Ben R.: "Charity and Gild Solidarity in Late Medieval England." Journal of British Studies, 32 (1993): 195-225.
  • Madden, Philippa C.: Violence and Social Order: East Anglia 1422-1442. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
  • Marks, Richard: Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.
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  • Mathew, Gervase: The Court of Richard II. London: J. Murray, 1968.
  • Medcalf, Stephen (Ed.): The Later Middle Ages. The Context of English Literature Series. London: Methuen, 1981.
  • Mertes, Kate: The English Noble Household, 1250-1600. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.
  • Mitchell, Jerome: Thomas Hoccleve. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1968.
  • Myers, A.R.: London in the Age of Chaucer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.
  • Newton, Stella Mary: Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1980.
  • North, John David: Chaucer's Universe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
  • Orme, Nicholas: English Schools in the Middle Ages. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973.
  • Orme, Nicholas: From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of English Kings and Aristocracy, 1066-1530. London: Methuen, 1984.
  • Orme, Nicholas: "The 'laicization' of English School Education, 1250-1560." History of Education 16 (1987): 81-89.
  • Owst, G.R.: Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961.
  • Owst, G.R.: Preaching in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.
  • Payling, Simon: Political Society in Lancastrian England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
  • Pollard, A.J.: North-Eastern England During the Wars of the Roses: Lay Society, War, and Politics, 1450-1500. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
  • Ramsey, Lee C.: Chivalric Romances. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.
  • Rawcliffe, Carole: Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1995.
  • Reeves, A.C.: Delights of Life in Fifteenth-Century England. New Orleans: Richard III Society, 1990.
  • Reeves, A.C.: Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval England. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1995.
  • Reeves, A.C.: "The World of Thomas Hoccleve." Fifteenth Century Studies, II (1979): 187-201.
  • Riddy, Felicity: Sir Thomas Malory. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1987.
  • Robbins, Rossell Hope (Ed.): Historical Poems of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.
  • Robbins, Rossell Hope (Ed.): Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.
  • Rosenthal, Joel T.: "Aristocratic Marriage and the English Peerage, 1350-1500: Social Institution and Personal Bond." Journal of Medieval History, X (1984): 181-94.
  • Rosenthal, Joel T.: Nobles and the Noble Life, 1295-1500. London: Allen and Unwin, 1976.
  • Rosenthal, Joel T.: Patriarchy and Families in Fifteenth-Century England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
  • Rosenthal, Joel T.: The Purchase of Paradise. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.
  • Rowland, Beryl: Medieval Woman's Guide to Health. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1981.
  • Saul, Nigel (Ed.): Age of Chivalry. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
  • Scattergood, V.J.: Politics and Poetry in the Fifteenth Century. London: Blandford Press, 1971.
  • Scattergood, V.J., and Sherborne, J.W. (Eds.): English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages. London: Duckworth, 1983.
  • Schirmer, Walter F.: John Lydgate. London: Methuen, 1961.
  • Seaton, Ethel: Sir Richard Roos. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961.
  • Thrupp, S.L.: The Merchant Class of Medieval London. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1948.
  • Vale, Juliet; Vale, Malcolm: "Knightly Codes and Piety." History Today. 37/11 (1987): 12-17.
  • Virgoe, Roger (Ed.): Private Life in the Fifteenth Century. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.
  • Ward, Jennifer: English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages. New York: Longman, 1992.
  • Wilkins, N.E.: Music in the Age of Chaucer. Ipswich: Brewer, 1979.
  • Wright, S.M.: The Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century. Chesterfield: Derbyshire Record Society, 1983.

Interpretive Studies

  • Archer, Rowena E. (Ed.): Crown, Government and People in the Fifteenth Century. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1995.
  • Britnell, R.H. and Pollard, A.J. (Eds.): The McFarlane Legacy: Studies in Late Medieval Politics and Society. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1995.
  • Chrimes, S.B., Ross, C.D., and Griffiths, R.A. (Eds.) Fifteenth-Century England, 1399-1509. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1972.
  • Clayton, Dorothy J.; Davies, Richard G.; and McNiven, Peter (Eds.): Trade, Devotion and Governance: Papers in Later Medieval History. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994.
  • Dunham, William Huse, Jr., and Wood, Charles T.: "The Right to Rule in England: Depositions and the Kingdom's Authority, 1327-1485." American Historical Review, LXXXI (1976): 738-61.
  • Griffith, R.A. (Ed.): Patronage, The Crown and The Provinces in Later Medieval England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1981.
  • Kermode, Jennifer (Ed.): Enterprise and Individuals in Fifteenth-Century England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1991.
  • Lander, J.R.: Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England. 3rd Edition. London: Hutchinson, 1977.
  • Lander, J.R.: Crown and Nobility, 1450-1509. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976.
  • Lander, J.R.: Government and Community: England, 1450-1509. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.
  • Ormrod, W.M. (Ed.): England in the Fourteenth Century. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1986.
  • Palmer, J.J.N.: England, France and Christendom, 1377-99. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.
  • Pollard, A.J. (Ed.): The North of England in the Age of Richard III. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1995.
  • Pollard, A.J. (Ed.): Property and Politics: Essays in Later Medieval English History. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1984.
  • Ross, Charles (Ed.): Patronage, Pedigree and Power. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1979.
  • Saul, Nigel: Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
  • Saul, Nigel: Scenes from Provincial Life: Knightly Families in Sussex, 1280-1400. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
  • Storey, R.L.: The End of the House of Lancaster. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1966.
  • Williams, Daniel (Ed): England in the Fifteenth Century. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987.

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