Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England
Steve Gunn samples two books on English government and politics in the Middle Ages.
- Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England: Essays Presented to Gerald Harriss Edited by Rowena E. Archer and Simon Walker (Hambledon xxviii + 270 pp.)
- The Politics of Fifteenth-Century England: John Vale’s Book Edited by Margaret L Kekewich, Colin Richmond, Anne F. Sutton, Livia Visser-Fuchs and John L Watts (Alan Sutton for Richard III & Yorkist History Trust xiv + 289 pp.)
A generation ago, when the honorand of Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England wrote his doctoral thesis under the supervision of K.B. McFarlane, the remarkable thing about studying the government and politics of ffteenth-century England was not how it was done but that it was done at all. We have come a long way since then, not least through the efforts of Gerald Harriss and of McFatlane's other pupils: the period is now the object of intensive and wide-ranging research. These two books provide a chance to assess some of the directions that research is taking.
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