The essays collected here provide fresh insight into a range of important topics across the period. They discuss religion [both orthodox, as revealed by the lives of anchoresses living in Norwich, and heretical, as practised by lollards living in Coventry]; politics [exploring the motivations of individuals seeking election to parliament, and how the way Cade's Rebellion was recorded by contemporaries affected its subsequent perception]; law [whether it may be deduced from manorial court rolls that lawyers were employed by peasants, and an examination of the process of peace-making in feuds on the Scottish border]; national, ethnic and political identity in the British Isles; social ranking and chivalry [in particular knighthood in Scotland]; and verse [a consideration of the poem Lydgate addressed to Thomas Chaucer, and the occasion of its composition].
Contributors: JACKSON W. ARMSTRONG, JACQUELYN FERNHOLTZ, TONY GOODMAN, DAVID GRUMMITT, CAROLE HILL, MAUREEN JURKOWSKI, JENNI NUTTALL, SIMON PAYLING, ANDREA RUDDICK, KATIE STEVENSON, MATTHEW TOMPKINS