Fifteenth Century XVIII

LINDA CLARK is Editor Emeritus at the History of Parliament. PETER FLEMING is Professor Emerius,University of the West of England. ANDY KING is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Southampton, UK. Anne Curry is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, and author of many works on the Hundred Years War, particularly on the battle of Agincourt. She also edited the 1422-53 section of the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England. GWILYM DODD is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham, UK. JAMES ROSS is Reader in Late Medieval History at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published extensively on the late medieval nobility, kingship and political society. LINDA CLARK is Editor Emeritus at the History of Parliament. MICHAEL HICKS, the academic director, is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Winchester and author of Richard III: The Self-Made King (Yale, 2019), among many other books and articles.

This festschrift is a most fitting tribute to one of our leading medieval historians and is very well deserved.

• Preface - Linda ClarkTyranny and Affinity: The Public and Private Authority of Richard II and Richard III - Gwilym DoddThe Commission to ensure Good Governance of 11 May 1402: A Case-Study of Lancastrian Counter-Propaganda - Douglas BiggsA Failure in Foresight: the Lancastrian Kings and the Lancastrian Dukes - Michael HicksThe Strothers: A Tale of Northern Gentle Folk, Social Mobility and Stagnation in Late Medieval Northumberland - Andy King'No Good unto our said King at this Time' - Rosemary HorroxContemporary and Near-Contemporary Chroniclers: The North of England and the Wars of the Roses, c.1450-1471 - Keith DockrayEngland, 1461: Predominantly Provincial Perspectives on the Early Months of the Reign of Edward IV - Hannes KleinekeGreater Landowners and the Management of their Estates in Late Medieval England - James RossLordship and the Social Elite in the Lordship of Gower during the Wars of the Roses - Ralph A GriffithsA Yorkist Legacy for the Tudor Prince of Wales on the Welsh Marches: Affinity-Building, Regional Government and National Politics, 1471-1502 - Sean CunninghamSouthern England and Campaigns to France, 1415-1453 - Anne CurryLast Men Standing: Lancashire Soldiers in the Wars in France - Michael J BennettNorthern Pride goes Before a Fall: The 'Horrorable' History of Adelston Attysle - Carole RawcliffeProfessor Tony Pollard: An Appreciation - Anne CurryThe Published Works of A.J. (Tony) Pollard, 1972-2019 - Sandra Pollard