Edited by Hannes Kleineke and Christian Steer, Harlaxton Medieval Studies Vol XXIII, 2013.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Genealogies
Michael Hicks
The Yorkist Age?
THE ROYAL HOUSE OF YORK
Jennifer Scott
Painting from life? Comments on the Date and Function of the Early Portraits of Elizabeth Woodville and Elizabeth of York in the Royal Collection
J.L. Laynesmith
The Piety of Cecily, Duchess of York: A Reputation Reconsidered
Charles Farris
The New Edwardians? Royal Piety in the Yorkist Age
Maria Hayward
Clothed by the Tudors: Yorkist prisoners in the Tower 1485–1547
WAR, KINGSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
S.J. Payling
Edward IV and the Politics of Conciliation in the Early 1460s
James Ross
A Governing Elite? The Higher Nobility in the Yorkist and Early Tudor Period
Anne F. Sutton
‘Peace, love and unity’: Richard III’s Charters to His Towns
Nigel Ramsay
Richard III and the Office of Arms
Oliver Hounslow
Scattered Skeletons – An Introduction to the Bioarchaeology of Towton
Sean Cunningham
The Yorkists at War: Military leadership in the English war with Scotland 1480–82
Jelle Haemers and Frederik Buylaert
War, Politics, and Diplomacy in England, France and the Low Countries, 1475–1500. An Entangled History
DRAMA AND LITERATURE IN THE YORKIST AGE
Derek Pearsall
Was there a Yorkist Literature?
Meg Twycross
Organising theatricals in York between 1461 and 1478: seventeen years of change
†Lister M. Matheson
National and Civic Chronicles in Late Fifteenth-Century London
M.T.W. Payne
Robert Fabyan’s Civic Identity
Livia Visser-Fuchs and Carol M. Meale
The Meeting of the Duke and the Emperor: The English Survival of a Lost Text by Olivier de La Marche
DEATH AND COMMEMORATION IN THE YORKIST AGE
Clive Burgess
Fotheringhay Church: Conceiving a College and its Community
Nigel Saul
Fotheringhay Church, Northamptonshire: Architecture and Fittings
David Harry
Learning to Die in Yorkist England: Earl Rivers’ Cordyal
Alexandra Buckle
‘Entumbid Right Princely’: The re-interment of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, and a lost rite
Bibliography
Index