‘Monuments of Honor': clerks, histories and heroes in the London livery companies

Davies, Matthew (2011) ‘Monuments of Honor': clerks, histories and heroes in the London livery companies. In: Kleineke, H. (ed.) Parliament, Personalities and Power. The Fifteenth Century. Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 143-165. ISBN 9781843836926.

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Book synopsis: Linda S. Clark is a distinguished scholar of fifteenth-century England, best known for her important contribution to the study of the late medieval English parliament. She has served as general editor of The Fifteenth Century since 2003. This special volume in the series marks her four decades of work for the History of Parliament Trust. As is appropriate, its essays focus above all on Parliament and the personalities that served in its chambers, but they also illuminate a wider range of themes that have long concerned students of the later middle ages, including the lawlessness of the gentry and nobility, the acquisition and management of their estates, and their self-expression in pageantry and legend. Other social groups, ranging from the mercantile élite of the city of London and their Italian trading partners to England's common soldiers, also make an appearance. Several of the papers collectedhere have a geographical focus in London and East Anglia, but other regions are also represented. The collection thus pays tribute to the breadth of Dr Clark's contribution to the field, both in her own writing, and in her long-standing commitment to facilitate the publication of the original research of others.

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