The fifteenth century VI

The essays collected here provide fresh insight into a range of important topics across the period.

They discuss religion (both orthodox, as revealed by the lives of anchoresses living in Norwich, and heretical, as practised by lollards living in Coventry); politics (exploring the motivations of individuals seeking election to parliament, and how the way Cade's Rebellion was recorded by contemporaries affected its subsequent perception); law (whether it may be deduced from manorial court rolls that lawyers were employed by peasants, and an examination of the process of peace-making in feuds on the Scottish border); national, ethnic and political identity in the British Isles; social ranking and chivalry (in particular knighthood in Scotland); and verse (a consideration of the poem Lydgate addressed to Thomas Chaucer, and the occasion of its composition).

The contributors are: Jackson W. Armstrong, Jacquelyn Fernholtz, Tony Goodman, David Grummitt, Carole Hill, Maureen Jurkowski, Jenni Nuttall, Simon Payling, Andrea Ruddick, Katie Stevenson, Matthew Tompkins.