Six essays explore the making of human identities and agency in English communities between the Great Plague and about 1600. They also focus attention on the pr
This book analyses the relation between politics and the production of culture in Lancastrian England, focussing on the intellectual activity of Duke Humphrey o
In the early fifteenth century, English poets responded to a changed climate of patronage, instituted by Henry IV and successor monarchs, by inventing a new tra