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Dynasty, Politics and Ceremonial in Late Medieval England and Europe: Essays in Honour of Livia Visser-Fuchs
The Yorkist History Trust is delighted to announce a new festschrift in honour of Dr Livia Visser-Fuchs, an authority on late medieval England and Burgundy and a long-standing Trustee. Entitled Dynasty, Politics and Ceremonial in Late Medieval England and Europe: Essays in Honour of Livia Visser-Fuchs, the volume will be edited by Rowena E. Archer and Margaret M. Condon. Essays cover England, Brittany, Burgundy, and Italy over the long fifteenth century, and range in topic from heraldry and material culture through diplomacy and biography, to religion and art. The full table of contents is as follows:
Julia Boffey
Appreciation of Livia Visser-Fuchs
Rowena E. Archer and Margaret M. Condon
Introduction
Adrian Ailes, Sheri Chriqui and Erik Kooper
‘The Herald’s Lament’: Washington, Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.a.198
Rowena E. Archer
Managing an Alien Priory: Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (d.1475) and Grovebury in Bedfordshire
Caroline M. Barron and Maggie Bolton
Noble and Gentry Membership of the Taylors’ and Skinners’ Fraternities in Fifteenth-Century London
Margaret M. Condon
A Shadow Play: Ceremonial and Edmund, Third Son of Henry VII
Heather Falvey
Henry Kempe of Ellingham, Norfolk (d.1455) and his Connections
Ralph A. Griffiths
The Legacy of Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Bedford: Royal Endowment and Regional Power
Michael Hicks
Alternative Scenarios: Caxton’s Chronicle and Warkworth’s Chronicle
Michael C. E. Jones
The Missions in 1490 of Roger Machado, Richmond Herald, to the Duchy of Brittany Revisited
Carol Meale
Memling’s ‘Donne Triptych’ and Questions of Nationhood
Edward L. Meek
‘Lettres touchant Angleterre‘: The Diplomatic Archive and the Anglo-Burgundian Negotiations of 1480
Philip Muijtjens
Bringing the Brussels Cityscape to Fifteenth-Century Italy: Pietrino de Villa and his Artistic Commission for Sant’ Agostino, Chieri
Carole Rawcliffe
Lost Innocents: The Destruction of Books and Records by Fire in Medieval England
James Ross
Richard, Duke of York, and the Politics of 1450: Further Evidence
Christian Steer
The Peeress in the Parish: Jane Norton-Treguran-Drope-Grey, Viscountess Lisle (d.1500), of London
Meg Twycross
When is a Saracen not a Saracen?
Tabula Gratulatoria
The volume will be published by the Yorkist History Trust in association with Shaun Tyas in late 2027. Details on how to pre-order and subscribe for the tabula gratulatoria will be available in winter 2026.
For the Trust’s other available volumes, please see our Publications page.