First published in 1969, Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England is a study of a much neglected and misinterpreted century of English history—the century of the Wars of the Roses which, the author shows, had only a comparatively small effect on English life.
First published in 1969, Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England is a study of a much neglected and misinterpreted century of English history—the century of the Wars of the Roses which, the author shows, had only a comparatively small effect on English life. Other sections discuss the economic repercussions of the Black Death, the literature and architecture of the times, religion and Anglo-papal relations on the eve of the Reformation, and the gradual beginnings of Tudor government.
Arvustused
Review of the first publication:
The best introduction to fifteenth-century English society. Its seven well-informed and balanced chapters survey the problems and achievements of Lancastrian, Yorkist and early Tudor government, assess the centurys economic vitality, religious life and cultural attainment, and most stimulatingly of all, discuss how aristocracy and monarchy discharged their common obligation to provide stable governmentAll medieval and Tudor historians should read this book: it gives to the fifteenth century an identity of its ownas an age of rich excitement.
Preface
1. The dark glass of the fifteenth century
2. The countrys
economy
3. The politics of Lancaster
4. York and Tudor
5. Religious life
6.
Education and the arts
7. Society and government
J.R. Lander came to Cambridge University in 1940 and entered Pembroke College with four scholarships. He was Professor of History at University of Western Ontario. His university appointments took him abroad, first to the University College of the Gold Coast (University of Ghana) from 1950 to 1960, and then to Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1963 to 1965.
