J.P.Sommerville

 

II: 1460-1509: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT

  Q: 'The King's personality was central to political stability in the later fifteenth century'. Discuss.

 

[Many of the items on List I are also relevant.]

 

  1. David Starkey 'The age of the household' in Stephen Medcalf, ed, The later middle ages
  2. Sir John Fortescue The governance of England, ed, C Plummer


The character of the kings

  1. CD Ross, Edward IV (cf also Ross's article in Chrimes, ed, Fifteenth Century England)
  2. CD Ross, Richard III
  3. SB Chrimes Henry VII

 

Administration

  1. GR Elton, The Tudor constitution
  2. BP Wolffe, The crown lands
  3. BP Wolffe, The royal demesne in English history
  4. Margaret Condon 'Ruling elites in the reign of Henry VII' in Ross, ed, Patronage, pedigree and power
  5. JR Lander 'Bonds, coercion and fear' in J Rowe, ed, Florilegium Historiale

 

Politics

  1. DAL Morgan 'The king's affinity in the polity of Yorkist England' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 23 (1973)
  2. M Hicks 'The changing role of the Wydevilles in Yorkist Politics to 1483' in Ross, ed, Patronage, pedigree and power
  3. JR Lander, Crown and Nobility
  4. R.A.Griffiths & R.S.Thomas, The making of the Tudor Dynasty, Stroud 1985

 

Local government

  1. AJ Pollard, North-eastern England during the Wars of the Roses
  2. SJ Payling, Political society in Lancastrian England
  3. CE Moreton, The Townshends and their world: gentry, law and land in Norfolk
  4. Tim Thornton, Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560. The Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 2000

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