Consists of selected papers from the 4th conference on fifteenth-century studies sponsored by the North American Branch (i.e. American Branch) of the Richard III Society, held May 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Cultural history and the development of the modern state: the English case / Jean-Philippe Genet -- Heritage, history, and the crown in late medieval England / Michael J. Bennett -- Scandal as stratagem: charges of illegitimacy in late medieval politics / Rhoda Lange Friedrichs -- The political thought of Thomas Hoccleve / A. Compton Reeves -- Battle lines: the poetry of partisanship in mid-fifteenth-century England / Roger Nicholson -- Constructing memory: the image of Henry VII in the stained glass window of the Friary Church at Greenwich / Virginia K. Henderson -- Processing power: performance, politics, and place in early Tudor Bristol / Peter Fleming.
Series:
Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; v. 414
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