Linda Clark 
The Fifteenth Century XIX 
Enmity and Amity

‘This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding.’ ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW


The essays in this volume explore relationships in all their different guises and expressions. Hostility between England and France cast a long shadow over the fifteenth century and beyond. While warfare at sea and the composition of the army which invaded Normandy in 1417 left extensive administrative records, sources of a different nature highlight the experiences of the French and Burgundians. The experience of the incursion of Henry VIII’s forces in 1513 found expression in widely-distributed poems; while verses celebrating the births of heirs to the Hapsburg duke of Burgundy sought to allay fears over a change of regime by stressing the benefits of their multinational heritage. Portraits of rulers of Italian states emphasised the emergence of a shared courtly culture between England and Italy by commemorating their election as Knights of the Garter, while the records of Bishop’s Lynn testify to the harmonious integration of immigrants from the Low Countries and Baltic regions. The Magna Carta of 1215 – intended to place the relationship between ruler and ruled on a new footing – had a long after-life, providing a blue-print for practices adopted by the Appellants of 1388 and being cited at the deposition of Richard II, only to be eclipsed in the late fifteenth century when depositions focused instead on challenges to the monarch’s title. Poor records of the meetings of convocations have led to undue emphasis on their role in granting subsidies, but a register at Canterbury presents a different picture by revealing business of the southern convocation of 1462.

Table of Content

England and Europe, c.1450-1520: Nostalgia or New Opportunities? – MALCOLM VALE

Mariners and Marauders: A Case Study of Fowey during the Hundred Years’ War, c.1400-c.1453 – S.J. DRAKE

Henry V’s Army of 1417 – ANNE CURRY and DAVID CLEVERLY

‘Get out of our land, Englishmen’. French Reactions to the English Invasion of 1512-13 – CHARLES GIRY-DELOISON

Encountering the ‘Duche’ in Margery Kempe’s Lynn – SUSAN MADDOCK

‘C’est le Beaulté de Castille et d’Espaigne, qui le Soleil cler d’Austrice accompaigne’: Jean Molinet makes the Habsburgs Burgundian – CATHERINE EMERSON

Magna Carta in the Late Middle Ages, c.1320-c.1520 – NIGEL SAUL

The Business of the Southern Convocation in 1462 – PAUL CAVILL

About the author

NIGEL SAUL is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London