The Trust has issued many publications of both scholarly work and edited source material in conjunction with our publisher, Shaun Tyas. To order titles, please contact Shaun Tyas (shaun@shauntyas.myzen.co.uk) or see our current price list for more details.
Forthcoming publications:
Peter Fleming, Late Medieval Bristol: Time, Space and Power.
The Lordship of Middleham in 1465–6 and 1473–4, introduction by Gladys Mary Coles, transcript and translation by Jonathan Mackman, ed. Livia Visser-Fuchs, Jonathan Mackman and Anne F. Sutton.
Current publications:
Anne F. Sutton, The King’s Work: The Defence of the North under the Yorkist Kings, 1471-85, 2021. Normal retail £30, special offer £25.
This books is a study of the prime duty of an English king in the late fifteenth century: the defence of his realm and its people. The gazetteers cover the English/Scots border, and the coasts of Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire down to Lincolnshire. The narrative of both the chronological and gazetteer sections endeavours to be precise and tied to date and the book has extensive footnotes, a large bibliography, an index and two maps.
The Calais Letterbook of William Lord Hastings and Late Medieval Crisis Diplomacy, 1477-83, ed. and introduced by Edward L. Meek, 2018. Normal retail £35, special offer £20.
This book is the text and translation of letters written by William, Lord Hastings, Lieutenant of Calais, during the first months of an international crisis that followed the death of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, at Nancy in January 1477. During the subsequent war between France and Burgundy, England maintained diplomatic relations with both parties despite Edward IV’s sister Margaret being Charles of Burgundy’s widow. The book contains a full introduction, both to the letters and to subsequent events up to 1483. A fold out plan of a later copy of a contemporary map of the Calais region is included.
Harry Schnitker, Margaret of York, Princess of England, Duchess of Burgundy (1446–1503), 2016. Normal retail £35, special offer £20.
From the moment in 1468 when Margaret of York (1446–1503), sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III, married Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, she played a central role in Burgundian society and cultural life. Throughout her life, she maintained excellent relations with her step-daughter, Mary of Burgundy, and her stepson-in-law, Maximilian I of Habsburg, as well as with members of the nobility, clergy and the leading men of her dower towns. A woman in a world of men, she was none-the-less able to establish and maintain her authority and influence through her household and affinity, through her patronage of the arts, of religious orders and of humanist learning. This new study looks at all these aspects of Margaret’s life, not omitting, for example, the role of the women who influenced her, her support of the crucial Habsburg marriage, and her attempt to influence English politics by encouraging Yorkist pretenders. There are appendices and a full index and colour pictures.
The Yorkist Age, ed. Hannes Kleineke and Christian Steer, Harlaxton Medieval Studies Vol XXIII, 2011. Normal retail £49.50, special offer £5.
Proceedings of the 2011 Harlaxton Symposium covering archaeology, political, cultural and religious history. It Includes papers on Richard III and the Office of Arms and his charters to towns: the latter by Ricardian editor, Anne Sutton. This book is published by Shaun Tyas for Paul Watkins Publishing in collaboration with the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium.
The Heralds’ Memoir: Court Ceremonies of Henry VII, ed. Emma Cavell, 2009. Normal retail £30, special offer £10.
The first full modern edition of the narrative now preserved in the British Library. It corrects the incomplete version published by Thomas Herne in the 18th century and makes accessible for the first time a strictly contemporary source for the earliest years of the reign of Henry VII. This new edition takes the reader to the heart of Henry VII’s court as he struggled to hold the throne he had so fortuitously won at Bosworth.
The Estate and Household Accounts of William Worsley, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1479-1497, ed. Hannes Kleineke and Stephanie R. Hovland, 2004. Normal retail £24, special offer £4 (or free on request with any other order).
Transcription of William Worsley’s accounts together with an introduction to the life and career of this fascinating cleric. There are biographical details of the individuals mentioned in the accounts, a pedigree, six mono-tone images, glossary, bibliography and index. Published in collaboration with the London Record Society.
The Beauchamp Pageant, ed. Alexandra Sinclair, 2003. Normal retail £55, special offer £10.
A late fifteenth century illustrated life of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (1382-1439). This edition provides an introduction to the work and the first detailed biography of Richard Beauchamp, along with an interesting description to accompany each of the illustrations. Full colour facsimile of the British Library manuscript.
The Merchant Taylors’ Company of London: Court Minutes 1486-1493, ed. Matthew Davies, 2000. Normal retail £25, special offer £4 (or free on request with any other order).
The Merchant Taylors’ Company is one of the oldest and largest of the livery companies in the City of London, with extensive records surviving from the late fourteenth century. This book covers seven years of court minutes, the earliest to survive in their original form from any of the ‘Great Twelve’ livery companies. This edition is fully translated and annotated with an extensive introduction.
Alien Communities in London in the Fifteenth Century: The Subsidy Rolls of 1440, 1483-4, ed. and introd. J. L. Bolton, 1998. Normal retail £25, special offer £5.
This book includes records of the taxation of individual aliens in Southwark in 1440 and in the City of London and the Middlesex suburbs in 1483-1484, with an extensive introduction reappraising the size, role and reception of London’s foreign population in the fifteenth century. This study with calendar, looks at the fifteenth century rolls, at the geographic origins, social organisation and economic role of the migrants within London and considers the question of how Londoners regarded these aliens. Includes short biographies.
The Politics of Fifteenth-Century England: John Vale’s Book, ed. Margaret L. Kekewich, Colin Richmond, Anne F. Sutton, Livia Visser-Fuchs and John L. Watts, 1995. Normal retail £40, special offer £15.
This book contains copies (often unique ones) of broadsides, private and public letters and literary texts ranging from about 1420 until about 1483. These provide a fascinating overview of English politics and London affairs before and during the Wars of the Roses. Documents are calendared and the book includes introductory essays.
The Household Books of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, 1462-1471 and 1481-1483, introd. Anne Crawford, 1992. Normal retail £35, special offer £20.
Comprises records of money received and dispersed by John Howard, his family and his household officials, thus casting light on both his estate administration and his domestic expenditure. John Howard was made duke of Norfolk by Richard III in 1483. His household books are one of the major primary sources for the political, social and economic history of late fifteenth century England.
Reduced size facsimile reprint of the rare 19th century transcriptions of the household books, with an introduction covering the early life and career of John Howard. Also includes a new name index and an appendix of newly transcribed related documents.
Richard III: Lordship, Loyalty and Law, ed. P. W. Hammond, 1984, repr. 2000. Normal retail £19.50, special offer £5.
Papers delivered at the second Richard III Society Symposium in April 1984, two editions published. Subjects include the private life of John Howard; Richard III and Lady Margaret Beaufort; the concept of the Good Prince; a Canonical assessment of the claim that the sons of Edward IV were illegitimate; a re-examination of the evidence on the deaths of the Princes and the bones in Westminster Abbey. Contributors include Anne Crawford, Michael Jones, Keith Dockray, Anne Sutton and Colin Richmond.
Out of print publications:
York House Books 1461-1490, ed. Lorraine Attreed, 2 vols, 1991.
A new and complete edition of the York House Books for 1461-1490. This edition provides some of the most important documents from the York city archives, including details of royal visits, proclamations and political events in the Wars of the Roses, as well as local bye-laws, craft regulations and arrangements for the performance of the York mystery plays. They provide an unparalleled view of Richard, who was York’s greatest patron, both as duke of Gloucester and as king of England. Two volume set with introduction and name and subject index.
The Hours of Richard III, ed. Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, 1990.
As a man’s religious convictions can be considered fundamental to his character and behaviour, Richard’s piety has naturally provoked comment, and conclusions have been made linking his piety with his crimes and a need to atone. Some of these theories have drawn on material in the Hours, especially ‘his’ prayer, but none have been based on any real inspection or understanding of the manuscript or of the prayer’s text and purpose. A study of the Hours is therefore long overdue.
Lambeth Ms. 474, here styled the Hours of Richard III, was not made originally for the King. It was produced in London about 1420 for an unknown owner, possibly a cleric. It is a text of unusual length and some distinctive features. At some date after 6 July 1483, the date of his coronation, Richard III chose to use this text as his personal book of hours.
Both its liturgical contents and its decoration presumably appealed to Richard III. The text shows the preoccupations of a devout man of the fifteenth century and its decoration puts it in the context of the development of London manuscript illumination in the same period. Richard III chose a very useful, solid, unflamboyant and English manuscript for his daily use–one that can be shown to be entirely in keeping with the other books he owned. He seems to have chosen his books for their contents.
Digitised along with the original manuscript by Leicester Cathedral, in collaboration with the Trust. Click cover for link.
The Crowland Chronicle Continuations 1459-1486, ed. Nicholas Pronay and John Cox, 1986.
The Crowland Chronicle Continuations, 1459-1486, are among the major sources for late fifteenth-century English history, containing information found nowhere else on crucial events, including those of the reign of Richard III. They have hitherto only been available in a nineteenth-century English translation and a seventeenth-century Latin version. The present book represents the first scholarly edition. It contains a long Introduction which includes a discussion of the vexed question of the authorship, and parallel Latin and English texts. The publication of this book on the 500th anniversary of the Continuations is a major event for scholars of the period.
